Loudblog vs. Serendipity vs. Wheatblog vs. WikyBlog

General Features Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Version
0.6
1.1
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
2006-12-08 (17 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
Gerrit van Aaken
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
Beta
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP, SQL
PHP
Operating System
all
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 Loudblog 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
Yes
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 Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Akismet Support
No
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
No
No
IP Ban List
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Definable Questions
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Other Authentication
Support Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
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 Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
No
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
No
Blog API
none
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Optional
No
No
Undo
No
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Features Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
No
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
No
No
Workflow Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
No
No
Interoperability Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
via RSS
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Administration Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
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 Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Loudblog Serendipity Wheatblog WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
No
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