PSG vs. DotClear vs. Wordpress vs. Serendipity vs. Textpattern

General Features PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Version
1.12.0
2.1.3
2.0.7
1.1
4.0.7
Release Date
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2008-11-28 (15 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)
Author
The PSG Team
Olivier Meunier
WordPress Development Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Team Textpattern
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Programming Language
PHP
PHP 5
PHP
PHP
PHP 4.3+
Operating System
Any
Unix/Linux, Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
Webserver
Any
Apache, Lighthttpd
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS, lighttp
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL 3.23+
Datastorage PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Moderation, link condom
Trackback validation
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
User Access Features PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
You can write your own auth plugin
Extendable authentication API
None
Support PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://textpattern.com/
Issue Tracker
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
Books
None
1
5+
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#textpattern on freenode
Blogging Features PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Categorization
None
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
MovableType, metaWeblog
Post Editing PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Undo
No
No
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unlimited, template-based
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Trash
No
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting PSG DotClear Wordpress Serendipity Textpattern
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
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