LifeType Features

LifeType is a blogging platform oriented towards communities. LifeType supports multiple blogs and users, seamless media management and integration with the blog, generation of standards compliant content, clean URLs, support for subdomains, even more than one domain served by one single installation and podcasting. Additionally, its powerful plugin framework allows its features to be extended and expanded in many ways so users are not restricted by the features provdied by the core.

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General Features LifeType
Version
1.2.6
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
License
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Development status
Mature
Interface Languages
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
System Requirements LifeType
Programming Language
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
Other Requirements
Datastorage LifeType
Text Files
No
MySQL
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Oracle
No
SQLite
No
BerkeleyDB
No
MS SQL Server
No
Other
Anti-Spam LifeType
Akismet Support
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features LifeType
ACL
Yes
Audit Log
No
LDAP Authentication
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 LifeType
Commercial Support
Yes
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType
Categorization
Single
Tags
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
Blog by Email
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing LifeType
Multi-paged posts
No
Spell Checker
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Undo
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Comment Features LifeType
Comment Layout
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
Extended Features LifeType
Plugin System
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Workflow LifeType
Content Approval
Plugin
Versioning
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Interoperability LifeType
Content Import
Content Export
Unicode Support
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Administration LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Trash
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Syndication LifeType
RSS 0.9x
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType
Podcast Feeds
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Media Converter
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Downloadable Software LifeType is downloadable software that you can install on your own computer or host it on a server on the Internet.