General Features | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
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Version |
1.1
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0.1010
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2.0.7
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1.6
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Release Date |
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
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2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
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2004-04-22 (20 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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Author |
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
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NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
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WordPress Development Team
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EllisLab, Inc.
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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License |
BSD
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GPLv2
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GPL
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Proprietary
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Free
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0
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From 0$ - 249.95$
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Development status |
Mature
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Beta
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Mature
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Mature
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Interface Languages |
0
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0
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0
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0
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Multi-User Support |
Yes
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Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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System Requirements | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP4, compatible with 5
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PHP
|
PHP
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Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
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Platform Independent
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
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Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
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Webserver |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
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Apache, works on IIS
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Anything with PHP
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IIS, Apache
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Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
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PHP must have XML support
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Datastorage | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other |
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
None
|
No
|
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Anti-Spam | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Akismet Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
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various other plugins
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Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
|
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User Access Features | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
LDAP Authentication |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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Other Authentication |
None
|
No
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Support | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Online Help |
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
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http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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http://expressionengine.com/support/
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Issue Tracker |
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
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http://trac.wordpress.org/
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http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
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Books |
None
|
None
|
5+
|
None
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Support Forum | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
IRC-Channel | ||||
Blogging Features | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
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Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Blog by Email |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Blog API |
MovableType, Blogger
|
WordPress (plugin)
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
|
Post Editing | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Undo |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Features | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
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Extended Features | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Workflow | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Content Approval |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Content Import |
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
|
Content Export |
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
MySQL
|
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress | ExpressionEngine |
Podcast Feeds |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Media Converter |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
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