| General Features | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.6
|
1.1
|
2.1.3
|
1.40.6
|
| Release Date |
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
|
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
|
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
|
2008-07-13 (15 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
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
|
Olivier Meunier
|
Pivot Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL v2
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
| 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 | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
|
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Unix/Linux, Windows
|
Any
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Apache, Lighthttpd
|
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
|||
| Datastorage | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
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
|
XML-based flat file storage
|
||
| Anti-Spam | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Word Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP Ban List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| 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,
|
Trackback validation
|
|
| User Access Features | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
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
|
Extendable authentication API
|
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| Support | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Commercial Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Online Help |
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
|
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
|
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
|
| Books |
None
|
None
|
1
|
None
|
| Support Forum | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| IRC-Channel |
#dotclear on freenode
|
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| Blogging Features | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Categorization |
Single
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
| Pingback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
| Ping Service Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blog by Email |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blog API |
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
MetaWeblog, Moblog
|
| Post Editing | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Spell Checker |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Undo |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Comment Features | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Open-ID Support |
Client
|
None
|
None
|
|
| Extended Features | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Google Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Workflow | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Content Approval |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Versioning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| 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 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | LifeType | Serendipity | DotClear | Pivot |
| Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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