Loudblog vs. PSG vs. Serendipity vs. WikyBlog

General Features Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Version
0.6
1.12.0
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2006-08-22 (18 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 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
Gerrit van Aaken
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
all
Any
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
Datastorage Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
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 Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
No
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Definable Questions
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
No
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
No
Blog API
none
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Optional
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Optional
Optional
No
Undo
No
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
No
Plugin
No
Workflow Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
via RSS
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
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 Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Loudblog PSG Serendipity WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
No
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