Jlog vs. dasBlog vs. Blogger vs. Serendipity

General Features Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Version
1.0.2
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
N/A
1.1
Release Date
2007-01-09 (19 years ago)
2007-08-14 (19 years ago)
N/A
2006-12-28 (19 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
Jeena Paradies / team
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Google Inc.
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD License
N/A
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
No
Yes
Hosting Features Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
System Requirements Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Programming Language
PHP
asp.net 2.0
N/A
PHP
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
N/A
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Text Files
No
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
No
Other
Structured XML data store
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
N/A
Yes
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
N/A
Support Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
No
No
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Yes
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Blogger data API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Undo
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Features Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Workflow Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Optional
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Content Import
BlogML pending
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
RSS
BlogML pending
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Jlog dasBlog Blogger Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Plugin
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