LifeType vs. Serendipity vs. Wheatblog vs. WikyBlog

General Features LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Version
1.2.6
1.1
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-06-29 (18 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
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0.00
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
No
System Requirements LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP, SQL
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL or SQLite
MySQL
Datastorage LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
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
Anti-Spam LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
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,
User Access Features LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
No
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
Support LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
No
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
No
No
Undo
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Features LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
None
Extended Features LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Workflow LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Approval
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Administration LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
No
remove LifeType remove Serendipity remove Wheatblog remove WikyBlog