LifeType vs. NucleusCMS vs. Pivot vs. Serendipity

General Features LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Version
1.2.6
3.24
1.40.6
1.1
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
2008-07-13 (16 years ago)
2006-12-27 (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)
Author
The LifeType Project
Wouter Demuynck and others
Pivot Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache with PHP
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
XML-based flat file storage
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
SpamBayes, MBL
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
No
No
Plugin
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 NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Categorization
Single
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
MetaWeblog, Moblog
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Undo
Yes
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comment Features LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
None
Extended Features LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Workflow LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Content Approval
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Content Import
yes
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
backup to SQL
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType NucleusCMS Pivot Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
Yes
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
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