Geeklog vs. Blogger vs. Serendipity vs. DotClear

General Features Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Version
1.8.2
N/A
1.1
2.1.3
Release Date
30 Dez 2012
N/A
2006-12-28 (19 years ago)
2008-11-20 (17 years ago)
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
Geeklog Team
Google Inc.
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Olivier Meunier
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GNU version 2
N/A
BSD
GPL v2
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Programming Language
php
N/A
PHP
PHP 5
Operating System
any
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Webserver
any
N/A
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighthttpd
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Text Files
No
N/A
No
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
Yes
N/A
No
No
Other
no
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Akismet Support
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
User Access Features Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Optional
Other Authentication
N/A
Extendable authentication API
Support Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
Issue Tracker
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
Books
1
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Categorization
Single
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Blog API
Blogger data API
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Optional
Comment Features Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Content Approval
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
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
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Geeklog Blogger Serendipity DotClear
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
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