Serendipity vs. Ignition vs. Pebble

General Features Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Version
1.1
1.0
2.5.1
Release Date
2006-12-28 (19 years ago)
2013-09-17 (12 years ago)
29/11/2010
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Jacob Roeland
Simon Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GNU GPL v3
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Tested in Windows and Linux
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
Any Java Application Server
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Akismet Support
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Optional
IP Ban List
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Optional
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Serendipity Ignition Pebble
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other Authentication
Support Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
No
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
No
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
No
Yes
Undo
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Features Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Comment Layout
Threaded
None
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client
Extended Features Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
Plugin
Workflow Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Content Approval
Optional
No
No
Versioning
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
atom/rss
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
atom/rss
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Serendipity Ignition Pebble
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
No
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
No
Yes
Syndication Serendipity Ignition Pebble
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity Ignition Pebble
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Plugin
No
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
No
No
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