General Features | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
---|---|---|---|
Version |
1.2.6
|
1.1
|
N/A
|
Release Date |
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
|
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
|
Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
Author |
The LifeType Project
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
|
Kirk Carter, Service First Webmasters, Inc.
|
URL | |||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
License |
GPL
|
BSD
|
N/A
|
License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
Free
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
N/A
|
Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Hosting Features | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
none
|
Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
none
|
Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
none
|
Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
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No spam, porn or hate speech
|
System Requirements | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
N/A
|
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
N/A
|
Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
N/A
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
N/A
|
|
Datastorage | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Text Files |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Other |
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
N/A
|
|
Anti-Spam | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Word Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
IP Ban List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
CAPTCHA |
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
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
No trackbacks, no links in comments
|
User Access Features | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
No
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
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
|
N/A
|
|
Support | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Online Help |
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
Context sensitive, online help
|
Issue Tracker |
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
|
Not yet
|
Books |
None
|
None
|
|
Support Forum | |||
Mailing List | |||
IRC-Channel | |||
Blogging Features | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Categorization |
Single
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Pingback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Ping Service Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Blog by Email |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Blog API |
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
None
|
Post Editing | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Multi-paged posts |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Undo |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Features | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Open-ID Support |
Client
|
None
|
None
|
Extended Features | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Workflow | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Content Approval |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Versioning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Content Import |
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
Plain text, HTML, MSWord
|
|
Content Export |
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
None
|
|
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | LifeType | Serendipity | Cakewalk Blogs |
Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
remove LifeType | remove Serendipity | remove Cakewalk Blogs |