Pebble vs. b2evolution vs. Serendipity vs. NucleusCMS vs. Pivot vs. WikyBlog

General Features Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Version
2.5.1
2.4
1.1
3.24
1.40.6
1.5.4
Release Date
29/11/2010
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Simon Brown
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Wouter Demuynck and others
Pivot Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 - Free
0
free
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Any Java Application Server
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache with PHP
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL
Datastorage Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
XML-based flat file storage
Anti-Spam Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Word Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
IP Ban List
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Support Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Post Editing Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Undo
No
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comment Features Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Open-ID Support
Client
Client
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Workflow Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Content Approval
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Content Import
atom/rss
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
yes
Content Export
atom/rss
Dump to RSS, Database export
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Pebble b2evolution Serendipity NucleusCMS Pivot WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
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