Blogger vs. DotClear vs. Geeklog vs. Serendipity

General Features Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Version
N/A
2.1.3
1.8.2
1.1
Release Date
N/A
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2006-12-27 (17 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)
Author
Google Inc.
Olivier Meunier
Geeklog Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL v2
GNU version 2
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Hosting Features Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Programming Language
N/A
PHP 5
php
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Unix/Linux, Windows
any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
N/A
Apache, Lighthttpd
any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Text Files
N/A
No
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
Yes
No
Other
N/A
no
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Trackback validation
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Other Authentication
N/A
Extendable authentication API
Support Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
1
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Categorization
None
Single
Single
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Yes
Comment Features Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
Extended Features Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Workflow Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger DotClear Geeklog Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
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