DotClear vs. Blogger vs. Serendipity vs. PSG vs. Geeklog

General Features DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Version
2.1.3
N/A
1.1
1.12.0
1.8.2
Release Date
2008-11-20 (17 years ago)
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)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Olivier Meunier
Google Inc.
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
The PSG Team
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
N/A
BSD
GPL
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
none
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Hosting Features DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Programming Language
PHP 5
N/A
PHP
PHP
php
Operating System
Unix/Linux, Windows
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Any
any
Webserver
Apache, Lighthttpd
N/A
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Any
any
Root Access
No
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 DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Text Files
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
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 DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Akismet Support
Yes
N/A
Yes
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Trackback validation
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 DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Optional
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other Authentication
Extendable authentication API
N/A
You can write your own auth plugin
Support DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
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
1
None
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Categorization
Single
None
Multiple
None
Single
Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Blog by Email
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Blog API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Blogger data API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Comment Features DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Workflow DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Content Approval
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability DotClear 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
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting DotClear Blogger Serendipity PSG Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
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