Pebble vs. Ignition vs. Serendipity

General Features Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Version
2.5.1
1.0
1.1
Release Date
29/11/2010
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Simon Brown
Jacob Roeland
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GNU GPL v3
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Tested in Windows and Linux
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Any Java Application Server
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Akismet Support
No
No
Yes
Word Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Pebble Ignition Serendipity
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other Authentication
Support Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
No
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
No
Optional
Undo
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Comment Layout
Threaded
None
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
No
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Extended Features Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Plugin
No
Plugin
Workflow Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Content Approval
No
No
Optional
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Content Import
atom/rss
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
atom/rss
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
HTML 4
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Pebble Ignition Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
No
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
No
Yes
Syndication Pebble Ignition Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Pebble Ignition Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
No
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
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