dasBlog vs. LifeType vs. PSG vs. Serendipity

General Features dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
1.2.6
1.12.0
1.1
Release Date
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-08-22 (18 years ago)
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
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
The LifeType Project
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD License
GPL
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, IIS
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
Structured XML data store
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
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
You can write your own auth plugin
Support dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
Single
None
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
No
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
None
Extended Features dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Workflow dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Content Approval
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Content Import
BlogML pending
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
BlogML pending
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog LifeType PSG Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Plugin
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