FlatPress vs. Blogger vs. PSG vs. Serendipity

General Features FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Version
0.1010
N/A
1.12.0
1.1
Release Date
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
N/A
2006-08-22 (17 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
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Google Inc.
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
N/A
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Free
0
Development status
Beta
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Programming Language
PHP4, compatible with 5
N/A
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Platform Independent
N/A
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Apache, works on IIS
N/A
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
No
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
No
Other
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Akismet Support
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Other Authentication
N/A
You can write your own auth plugin
Support FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
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 FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
None
None
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Blog API
WordPress (plugin)
Blogger data API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
Unknown
Unknown
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Workflow FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Content Approval
Yes
No
No
Optional
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
simple
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Content Import
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
No
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 FlatPress Blogger PSG Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
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