Ignition vs. Serendipity vs. Pebble

General Features Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Version
1.0
1.1
2.5.1
Release Date
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
29/11/2010
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Jacob Roeland
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Simon Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU GPL v3
BSD
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Operating System
Tested in Windows and Linux
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Webserver
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Any Java Application Server
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Akismet Support
No
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Ignition Serendipity Pebble
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other Authentication
Support Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Online Help
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
Issue Tracker
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
No
Link- / Blogroll
No
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Features Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Comment Layout
None
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client
Extended Features Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Content Approval
No
Optional
No
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
atom/rss
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
atom/rss
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Ignition Serendipity Pebble
E-Mail Notifications
No
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
No
Yes
Yes
Syndication Ignition Serendipity Pebble
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Ignition Serendipity Pebble
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
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