Serendipity vs. Wordpress vs. DotClear vs. FlatPress vs. Geeklog vs. b2evolution

General Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Version
1.1
2.0.7
2.1.3
0.1010
1.8.2
2.4
Release Date
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2006-12-01 (17 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
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
WordPress Development Team
Olivier Meunier
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Geeklog Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL v2
GPLv2
GNU version 2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
none
0 - Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
System Requirements Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
PHP4, compatible with 5
php
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Platform Independent
any
Linux, Windows or other
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, works on IIS
any
Apache, IIS or other
Root Access
No
No
No
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 Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
None
no
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
various other plugins
Trackback validation
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
several specialized antispam plugins
User Access Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Other Authentication
None
Extendable authentication API
OpenID plugin
Support Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
5+
1
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Post Editing Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Undo
Optional
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comment Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
Client
Extended Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Custom Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Workflow Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Content Approval
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interoperability Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
from 22 other blog systems
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity Wordpress DotClear FlatPress Geeklog b2evolution
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
YouTube Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
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