Loudblog vs. NucleusCMS vs. Serendipity vs. Wheatblog

General Features Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Version
0.6
3.24
1.1
1.1
Release Date
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-06-29 (18 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
Gerrit van Aaken
Wouter Demuynck and others
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Wheat, Josh, Pete
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
$0.00
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP, SQL
Operating System
all
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL or SQLite
Datastorage Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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 Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Definable Questions
SpamBayes, MBL
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
Support Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
Issue Tracker
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
Books
None
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Link- / Blogroll
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
No
No
Blog API
none
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Undo
No
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Comment Features Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Workflow Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Content Approval
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Versioning
No
Yes
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Content Import
none
yes
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
via RSS
backup to SQL
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
Yes
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
No
Administration Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Loudblog NucleusCMS Serendipity Wheatblog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
No
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