Battle Blog vs. DotClear vs. FlatPress vs. Jlog vs. Pivot vs. PSG vs. Serendipity vs. Wheatblog vs. WikyBlog

General Features Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Version
1.0d
2.1.3
0.1010
1.0.2
1.40.6
1.12.0
1.1
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
David Pinero
Olivier Meunier
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Jeena Paradies / team
Pivot Team
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPLv2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Free
Free
0
$0.00
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Programming Language
Classic ASP
PHP 5
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
PHP
PHP, SQL
PHP
Operating System
Windows
Unix/Linux, Windows
Platform Independent
Any
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, works on IIS
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL or SQLite
MySQL
Datastorage Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
MS Access
XML-based flat file storage
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
IP Ban List
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Trackback validation
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other Authentication
Extendable authentication API
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
1
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Blog API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
MetaWeblog, Moblog
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Undo
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Features Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Workflow Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Import
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
RSS
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Battle Blog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
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