Serendipity vs. DotClear vs. Geeklog

General Features Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Version
1.1
2.1.3
1.8.2
Release Date
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
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
Olivier Meunier
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL v2
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Optional
System Requirements Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP 5
php
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
any
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighthttpd
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
Yes
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
Anti-Spam Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Other Authentication
Extendable authentication API
Support Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
1
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Single
Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blog by Email
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
Optional
Undo
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Comment Features Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
Extended Features Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Content Approval
Optional
Yes
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity DotClear Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
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