Serendipity vs. Wordpress vs. DotClear vs. Geeklog vs. WikyBlog

General Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Version
1.1
2.0.7
2.1.3
1.8.2
1.5.4
Release Date
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2007-10-23 (16 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)
Author
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
WordPress Development Team
Olivier Meunier
Geeklog Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL v2
GNU version 2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
none
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
System Requirements Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
php
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
any
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
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
MySQL
Datastorage Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
None
no
Anti-Spam Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
various other plugins
Trackback validation
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Other Authentication
None
Extendable authentication API
Support Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
5+
1
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Single
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Undo
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Comment Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
Extended Features Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Custom Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Workflow Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Content Approval
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Versioning
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity Wordpress DotClear Geeklog WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
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