NucleusCMS vs. Geeklog vs. dasBlog vs. Serendipity vs. DotClear

General Features NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Version
3.24
1.8.2
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
1.1
2.1.3
Release Date
2006-11-11 (19 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2007-08-14 (19 years ago)
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)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Wouter Demuynck and others
Geeklog Team
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Olivier Meunier
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GNU version 2
BSD License
BSD
GPL v2
License Cost/ Fee
free
none
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
System Requirements NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Programming Language
PHP
php
asp.net 2.0
PHP
PHP 5
Operating System
Linux, Windows, UNIX
any
Any Windows IIS platform
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Webserver
Apache with PHP
any
IIS 4.0+
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighthttpd
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
IIS process account write access to web folder
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
no
Structured XML data store
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Akismet Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
SpamBayes, MBL
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
User Access Features NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Extendable authentication API
Support NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
Issue Tracker
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
Books
1
1
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Categorization
Single
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blog API
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comment Features NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Content Approval
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Content Import
yes
BlogML pending
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
backup to SQL
BlogML pending
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
HTML 4
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting NucleusCMS Geeklog dasBlog Serendipity DotClear
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
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