Wheatblog vs. WikyBlog vs. DotClear vs. Serendipity vs. PSG vs. b2evolution

General Features Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Version
1.1
1.5.4
2.1.3
1.1
1.12.0
2.4
Release Date
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
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
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Josh Schmidt
Olivier Meunier
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
The PSG Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
BSD
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
$0.00
0
0
0
Free
0 - Free
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
Multi-User Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Programming Language
PHP, SQL
PHP
PHP 5
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Any
Linux, Windows or other
Webserver
Apache
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Any
Apache, IIS or other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL or SQLite
MySQL
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
None
Datastorage Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Akismet Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Trackback validation
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Moderation, link condom
several specialized antispam plugins
User Access Features Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other Authentication
Extendable authentication API
You can write your own auth plugin
OpenID plugin
Support Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
Books
None
None
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Categorization
Single
Single
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Blog API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
MovableType, Blogger
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Post Editing Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
No
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Undo
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comment Features Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
Client
Extended Features Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Workflow Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Content Approval
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Wheatblog WikyBlog DotClear Serendipity PSG b2evolution
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
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