Serendipity vs. b2evolution vs. NucleusCMS

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