Serendipity Features

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications.

Visit Website: s9y.org
General Features Serendipity
Version
1.1
Release Date
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
License
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
Development status
Mature
Interface Languages
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
System Requirements Serendipity
Programming Language
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Serendipity
Text Files
No
MySQL
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Oracle
No
SQLite
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
MS SQL Server
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Serendipity
Akismet Support
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
IP Ban List
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Serendipity
ACL
Yes
Audit Log
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Other Authentication
Support Serendipity
Commercial Support
Yes
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Undo
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Comment Features Serendipity
Comment Layout
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Extended Features Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Custom Pages
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Workflow Serendipity
Content Approval
Optional
Versioning
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Interoperability Serendipity
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Administration Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Trash
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Syndication Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
YouTube Support
Plugin
Media Converter
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
Downloadable Software Serendipity is downloadable software that you can install on your own computer or host it on a server on the Internet.