General Features | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
---|---|---|---|
Version |
1.1
|
1.6
|
1.12.0
|
Release Date |
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
|
2004-04-22 (20 years ago)
|
2006-08-22 (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
|
EllisLab, Inc.
|
The PSG Team
|
URL | |||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
License |
BSD
|
Proprietary
|
GPL
|
License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
From 0$ - 249.95$
|
Free
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
System Requirements | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
|
Any
|
Webserver |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
IIS, Apache
|
Any
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
PHP must have XML support
|
None
|
Datastorage | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
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
|
No
|
|
Anti-Spam | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Akismet Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
|
Moderation, link condom
|
User Access Features | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Other Authentication |
No
|
You can write your own auth plugin
|
|
Support | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Online Help |
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
http://expressionengine.com/support/
|
|
Issue Tracker |
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
|
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
|
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
|
Books |
None
|
None
|
None
|
Support Forum | |||
Mailing List | |||
IRC-Channel | |||
Blogging Features | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Blog by Email |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Blog API |
MovableType, Blogger
|
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
|
|
Post Editing | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Undo |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Comment Features | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
None
|
Extended Features | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Custom Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Google Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Workflow | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Content Approval |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Versioning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Content Import |
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
|
|
Content Export |
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
MySQL
|
|
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | Serendipity | ExpressionEngine | PSG |
Podcast Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
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