Battle Blog vs. Movable Type vs. Wordpress vs. SamePage

General Features Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Version
1.0d
4.21
2.0.7
3.3
Release Date
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
3.3
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
David Pinero
Six Apart
WordPress Development Team
eTouch Systems
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Commercial
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
Pls check www.etouch.net
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Hosting Features Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No pornography
System Requirements Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Programming Language
Classic ASP
Perl 5
PHP
Java
Operating System
Windows
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows/Linux/Solaris
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP
Bundled with Tomcat. Can be proxied via webserver of choice
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Oracle 9i/10G, JSDK1.4
Datastorage Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
Yes
No
No
Other
MS Access
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
None
Anti-Spam Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Akismet Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
various other plugins
Moderated Comments
User Access Features Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Other Authentication
Pluggable
None
Single-Sign On
Support Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Available
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
support.etouch.net
Books
2-5
5+
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Protected Posts
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
metaWeblog, MovableType
Can be provided on request
Post Editing Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Undo
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
Extended Features Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Workflow Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
No
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Content Import
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
from 22 other blog systems
Using custom import framework
Content Export
Yes
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
No
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syndication Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Battle Blog Movable Type Wordpress SamePage
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Unknown
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