Loudblog vs. Wheatblog vs. Jlog vs. WikyBlog vs. Serendipity vs. PSG

General Features Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Version
0.6
1.1
1.0.2
1.5.4
1.1
1.12.0
Release Date
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Gerrit van Aaken
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Jeena Paradies / team
Josh Schmidt
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
The PSG Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0.00
0
0
Free
Development status
Beta
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Programming Language
PHP
PHP, SQL
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
all
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Any
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache
Apache, anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL or SQLite
MySQL
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
None
Datastorage Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Akismet Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Definable Questions
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Moderation, link condom
User Access Features Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other Authentication
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
Books
None
None
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
None
Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Protected Posts
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by Email
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
No
No
No
Blog API
none
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editor
No
No
No
No
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Google Sitemap
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Workflow Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Content Approval
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
simple
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
via RSS
RSS
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Loudblog Wheatblog Jlog WikyBlog Serendipity PSG
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
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