Geeklog vs. Wordpress vs. b2evolution vs. Serendipity vs. Blogger vs. Pebble

General Features Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Version
1.8.2
2.0.7
2.4
1.1
N/A
2.5.1
Release Date
30 Dez 2012
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
N/A
29/11/2010
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)
Author
Geeklog Team
WordPress Development Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Google Inc.
Simon Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GNU version 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
N/A
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0 - Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Hosting Features Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
System Requirements Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Programming Language
php
PHP
PHP
PHP
N/A
Java
Operating System
any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Webserver
any
Anything with PHP
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
N/A
Any Java Application Server
Root Access
No
No
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
N/A
Datastorage Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Text Files
No
No
No
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
N/A
No
MS SQL Server
Yes
No
No
No
N/A
No
Other
no
None
(must overload DB abstraction class)
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
N/A
Anti-Spam Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Akismet Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
N/A
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
IP Ban List
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
various other plugins
several specialized antispam plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
Other Authentication
None
OpenID plugin
N/A
Support Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://help.blogger.com/
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
Issue Tracker
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
Books
1
5+
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger data API
Post Editing Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Comment Features Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
Client
None
None
Client
Extended Features Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Workflow Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
none
atom/rss
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
atom/rss
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Geeklog Wordpress b2evolution Serendipity Blogger Pebble
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
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