LifeType vs. Loudblog vs. PSG vs. WikyBlog

General Features LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Version
1.2.6
0.6
1.12.0
1.5.4
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2006-08-22 (18 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
The PSG Team
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 PSG WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
all
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS
Any
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
MySQL
Datastorage LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
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 PSG WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Yes
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
Moderation, link condom
User Access Features LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Unknown
Plugin
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
You can write your own auth plugin
Support LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
None
Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
No
No
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
No
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
No
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
none
Post Editing LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
No
Optional
No
Undo
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
None
Extended Features LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
No
No
Workflow LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Content Approval
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interoperability LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Content Import
none
Content Export
via RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Administration LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
No
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType Loudblog PSG WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PSG remove WikyBlog