Geeklog vs. Serendipity vs. b2evolution vs. DotClear vs. Wordpress

General Features Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Version
1.8.2
1.1
2.4
2.1.3
2.0.7
Release Date
30 Dez 2012
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Geeklog Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Olivier Meunier
WordPress Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU version 2
BSD
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0 - Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Programming Language
php
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
PHP
Operating System
any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows or other
Unix/Linux, Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, Lighthttpd
Anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
Yes
No
No
No
No
Other
no
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
Anti-Spam Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Akismet Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
several specialized antispam plugins
Trackback validation
various other plugins
User Access Features Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Extendable authentication API
None
Support Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Issue Tracker
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://trac.wordpress.org/
Books
1
None
1
5+
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Undo
No
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comment Features Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Comment Layout
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
None
Client
Extended Features Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Content Approval
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Versioning
No
Yes
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Geeklog Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Wordpress
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
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