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Antville vs Serendipity: catalog facts
AntvilleSerendipity
Free

Free and open source software.

Free

Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Hosts many independent blogs on one installation
  • Long-running project with a live public instance
  • Long track record since 2002
  • Plugin and theme repository installable from the admin
  • Requires Helma Object Publisher and a relational database
  • Uncommon technology stack compared with PHP blog engines
  • Smaller community than WordPress
  • Classic PHP blog design rather than a modern headless setup
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: Apache-2.0 License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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