Textpattern vs. Serendipity vs. Geeklog vs. NucleusCMS

General Features Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Version
4.0.7
1.1
1.8.2
3.24
Release Date
2008-11-28 (15 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2006-11-10 (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)
Author
Team Textpattern
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Geeklog Team
Wouter Demuynck and others
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GNU version 2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
System Requirements Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Programming Language
PHP 4.3+
PHP
php
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
any
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Webserver
Apache, IIS, lighttp
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
any
Apache with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL 3.23+
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
Yes
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
Anti-Spam Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other Authentication
Support Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://textpattern.com/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
Issue Tracker
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
Books
1
None
1
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#textpattern on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Single
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
MovableType, metaWeblog
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Undo
No
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Comment Features Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
No
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
None
Extended Features Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Workflow Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Content Approval
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Content Import
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
yes
Content Export
Unlimited, template-based
Dump to RSS, Database export
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Textpattern Serendipity Geeklog NucleusCMS
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
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