dasBlog vs. Jlog vs. Movable Type vs. NucleusCMS vs. PSG vs. Serendipity vs. Wheatblog vs. WikyBlog

General Features dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
1.0.2
4.21
3.24
1.12.0
1.1
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 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)
Author
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Jeena Paradies / team
Six Apart
Wouter Demuynck and others
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
License
BSD License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
$0
free
Free
0
$0.00
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
System Requirements dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
PHP
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP, SQL
PHP
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Platform Independant
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Apache with PHP
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL or SQLite
MySQL
Datastorage dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Other
Structured XML data store
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
IP Ban List
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
SpamBayes, MBL
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Pluggable
You can write your own auth plugin
Support dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
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
None
None
2-5
1
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
XML-RPC and Atom
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
No
Undo
No
No
No
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Features dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
None
None
None
None
None
Extended Features dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Workflow dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Import
BlogML pending
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
yes
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
BlogML pending
RSS
Yes
backup to SQL
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog Jlog Movable Type NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
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