Geeklog vs. typo vs. Serendipity vs. LifeType

General Features Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Version
1.8.2
4.1.1
1.1
1.2.6
Release Date
30 Dez 2012
2007-05-08 (18 years ago)
2006-12-28 (19 years ago)
2008-02-01 (18 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
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU version 2
MIT
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Programming Language
php
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Operating System
any
All
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
any
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Ruby
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
Yes
No
No
No
Other
no
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Akismet Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
Support Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
1
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Blog by Email
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blog API
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
No
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
None
None
Client
Extended Features Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Content Approval
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
Content Import
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
RSS, Atom
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 typo Serendipity LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Geeklog typo Serendipity LifeType
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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