ExpressionEngine vs. Serendipity vs. Geeklog vs. Wordpress

General Features ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Version
1.6
1.1
1.8.2
2.0.7
Release Date
2004-04-22 (20 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2007-01-14 (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
EllisLab, Inc.
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Geeklog Team
WordPress Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Proprietary
BSD
GNU version 2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
From 0$ - 249.95$
0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
System Requirements ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
php
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
IIS, Apache
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
any
Anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP must have XML support
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
Yes
No
Other
No
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
None
Anti-Spam ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
various other plugins
User Access Features ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other Authentication
No
None
Support ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Issue Tracker
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://trac.wordpress.org/
Books
None
None
1
5+
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
MovableType, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Undo
Yes
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Features ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Workflow ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Content Approval
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Versioning
Yes
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Content Import
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
MySQL
Dump to RSS, Database export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting ExpressionEngine Serendipity Geeklog Wordpress
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
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