LifeType vs. Loudblog vs. NucleusCMS vs. WikyBlog

General Features LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Version
1.2.6
0.6
3.24
1.5.4
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 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
The LifeType Project
Gerrit van Aaken
Wouter Demuynck and others
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
all
Linux, Windows, UNIX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS
Apache with PHP
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL
Datastorage LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
Anti-Spam LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
Definable Questions
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Unknown
No
No
Other Authentication
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
Support LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
none
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Undo
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
None
Extended Features LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Workflow LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Content Approval
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interoperability LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Content Import
none
yes
Content Export
via RSS
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Administration LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType Loudblog NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
remove LifeType remove Loudblog remove NucleusCMS remove WikyBlog