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Publify vs Serendipity: catalog facts
Publify	Serendipity
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Multi-user blogging with Markdown support Plugin API and custom themes	Long track record since 2002 Plugin and theme repository installable from the admin
Needs a Ruby on Rails environment to host Translations are incomplete in some languages	Smaller community than WordPress Classic PHP blog design rather than a modern headless setup
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	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
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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