Blogger vs. DotClear vs. Serendipity vs. typo

General Features Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Version
N/A
2.1.3
1.1
4.1.1
Release Date
N/A
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-05-07 (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
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL v2
BSD
MIT
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
No
Hosting Features Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
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 Serendipity typo
Programming Language
N/A
PHP 5
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Operating System
N/A
Unix/Linux, Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
All
Webserver
N/A
Apache, Lighthttpd
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Yes
Other Requirements
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Ruby
Datastorage Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Text Files
N/A
No
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
Yes
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Trackback validation
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Optional
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
N/A
Extendable authentication API
Support Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
Books
None
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Categorization
None
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
No
Comment Features Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Workflow Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Content Approval
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
RSS, Atom
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger DotClear Serendipity typo
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
No
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