| General Features | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.12.0
|
1.1
|
1.5.4
|
2.1.3
|
0.6
|
1.2.6
|
| Release Date |
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
|
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
|
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
|
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
|
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
|
2008-01-31 (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 |
The PSG Team
|
Wheat, Josh, Pete
|
Josh Schmidt
|
Olivier Meunier
|
Gerrit van Aaken
|
The LifeType Project
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL v2
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
$0.00
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP, SQL
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Any
|
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Unix/Linux, Windows
|
all
|
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
| Webserver |
Any
|
Apache
|
Apache, anything with PHP
|
Apache, Lighthttpd
|
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, IIS
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
MySQL or SQLite
|
MySQL
|
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| Datastorage | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other | ||||||
| Anti-Spam | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Word Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| IP Ban List |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Moderation, link condom
|
Trackback validation
|
Definable Questions
|
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
|
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| User Access Features | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
You can write your own auth plugin
|
Extendable authentication API
|
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
|
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| Support | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
|
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
|
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
|
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
|
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
|
| Books |
None
|
None
|
None
|
1
|
None
|
None
|
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| IRC-Channel |
#dotclear on freenode
|
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| Blogging Features | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Categorization |
None
|
Single
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Pingback |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
| Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blog by Email |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blog API |
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
none
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
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| Post Editing | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Spell Checker |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Undo |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Comment Features | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Gravatars |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
Client
|
|
| Extended Features | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Search Engine |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Workflow | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Content Approval |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
simple
|
simple
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Content Import |
none
|
|||||
| Content Export |
via RSS
|
|||||
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Administration | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Web Statistics |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | PSG | Wheatblog | WikyBlog | DotClear | Loudblog | LifeType |
| Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| remove PSG | remove Wheatblog | remove WikyBlog | remove DotClear | remove Loudblog | remove LifeType |