General Features | LifeType | PSG | Serendipity | WikyBlog |
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Version |
1.2.6
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1.12.0
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1.1
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1.5.4
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Release Date |
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
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2006-08-22 (18 years ago)
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2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
|
Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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Author |
The LifeType Project
|
The PSG Team
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
|
Josh Schmidt
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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License |
GPL
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GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Free
|
0
|
0
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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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
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Operating System |
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
Any
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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
|
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Datastorage | LifeType | PSG | Serendipity | WikyBlog |
Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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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
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MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other |
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
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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
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URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
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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
|
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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
|
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Issue Tracker |
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
|
Books |
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
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Support Forum | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
IRC-Channel | ||||
Blogging Features | LifeType | PSG | Serendipity | WikyBlog |
Categorization |
Single
|
None
|
Multiple
|
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Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
Pingback |
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
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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
|
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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, ...
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Content Export |
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
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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
|
remove LifeType | remove PSG | remove Serendipity | remove WikyBlog |