NucleusCMS vs. Serendipity vs. Wordpress vs. Geeklog

General Features NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Version
3.24
1.1
2.0.7
1.8.2
Release Date
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
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
Wouter Demuynck and others
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
WordPress Development Team
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
System Requirements NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
php
Operating System
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
any
Webserver
Apache with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Anything with PHP
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
None
no
Anti-Spam NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
SpamBayes, MBL
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
various other plugins
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other Authentication
None
Support NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
1
None
5+
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blog by Email
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
MovableType, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Features NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Content Approval
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Versioning
Yes
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Content Import
yes
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
backup to SQL
Dump to RSS, Database export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting NucleusCMS Serendipity Wordpress Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
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