Blogger vs. Serendipity vs. PSG vs. Geeklog

General Features Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Version
N/A
1.1
1.12.0
1.8.2
Release Date
N/A
2006-12-28 (19 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
The PSG Team
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD
GPL
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
none
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Hosting Features Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
php
Operating System
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Any
any
Webserver
N/A
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Any
any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
None
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
Yes
Other
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
Anti-Spam Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Moderation, link condom
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other Authentication
N/A
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Categorization
None
Multiple
None
Single
Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Yes
No
Optional
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger data API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Undo
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Comment Features Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Custom Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Workflow Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Content Approval
No
Optional
No
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
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