DotClear vs. typo vs. Blogger vs. Serendipity vs. Geeklog

General Features DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Version
2.1.3
4.1.1
N/A
1.1
1.8.2
Release Date
2008-11-20 (17 years ago)
2007-05-08 (18 years ago)
N/A
2006-12-28 (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
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
MIT
N/A
BSD
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Hosting Features DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Programming Language
PHP 5
Ruby on Rails
N/A
PHP
php
Operating System
Unix/Linux, Windows
All
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
any
Webserver
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
N/A
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
any
Root Access
No
Yes
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
Ruby
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Text Files
No
No
N/A
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
N/A
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
No
Yes
Other
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
Anti-Spam DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
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,
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Optional
No
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Other Authentication
Extendable authentication API
N/A
Support DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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 typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Blog by Email
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blog API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Blogger data API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Comment Features DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Content Approval
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Content Import
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
RSS, Atom
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 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting DotClear typo Blogger Serendipity Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
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