| General Features | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
|
2.4
|
4.21
|
2.0.7
|
| Release Date |
N/A
|
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
|
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
|
2007-01-14 (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)
|
| Author |
Sparklit
|
Francois Planque / evoTeam
|
Six Apart
|
WordPress Development Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
From $0
|
0 - Free
|
$0
|
0
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Hosting Features | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Storage Quota |
1GB - Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
Upload Bandwidth
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| System Requirements | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
PHP
|
Perl 5
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Linux, Windows or other
|
Platform Independant
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache, IIS or other
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Anything with PHP
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
|||
| Datastorage | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
(must overload DB abstraction class)
|
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
|
None
|
| Anti-Spam | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Akismet Support |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Tubby Spam Filter
|
several specialized antispam plugins
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
various other plugins
|
| User Access Features | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
N/A
|
OpenID plugin
|
Pluggable
|
None
|
| Support | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Commercial Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
Personalized Support
|
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://support.sparklit.com
|
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
|
| Books |
None
|
2-5
|
5+
|
|
| Support Forum | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
|
#movabletype @ freenode.net
|
||
| Blogging Features | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
| Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blog by Email |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
|
| Post Editing | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Spell Checker |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| File Upload |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comment Features | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client
|
Client + Server
|
|
| Extended Features | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Polls / Surveys |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Workflow | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Content Approval |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Versioning |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Content Import |
csv
|
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
| Content Export |
csv
|
Yes
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
|
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Output |
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS 2.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | BlogBaker | b2evolution | Movable Type | Wordpress |
| Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Converter |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| remove BlogBaker | remove b2evolution | remove Movable Type | remove Wordpress |