LifeType vs. PSG vs. Serendipity vs. WikyBlog

General Features LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Version
1.2.6
1.12.0
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-08-22 (18 years ago)
2006-12-27 (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
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
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
No
System Requirements LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL
Datastorage LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
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 PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Categorization
Single
None
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
No
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Optional
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Undo
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
None
Extended Features LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Workflow LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Content Approval
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType PSG Serendipity 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
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
No
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