Cakewalk Blogs vs. Movable Type vs. Serendipity vs. ExpressionEngine

General Features Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Version
N/A
4.21
1.1
1.6
Release Date
N/A
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2004-04-22 (19 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
Kirk Carter, Service First Webmasters, Inc.
Six Apart
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
EllisLab, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
License
N/A
GPL
BSD
Proprietary
License Cost/ Fee
Free
$0
0
From 0$ - 249.95$
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Storage Quota
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No spam, porn or hate speech
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Programming Language
N/A
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Webserver
N/A
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
IIS, Apache
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP must have XML support
Datastorage Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
Yes
No
No
Other
N/A
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
No
Anti-Spam Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Akismet Support
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
No trackbacks, no links in comments
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
User Access Features Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Optional
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
N/A
Pluggable
No
Support Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Online Help
Context sensitive, online help
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://expressionengine.com/support/
Issue Tracker
Not yet
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
Books
2-5
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Categorization
None
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Yes
Blog API
None
XML-RPC and Atom
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
Post Editing Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Workflow Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Content Approval
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Content Import
Plain text, HTML, MSWord
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
Content Export
None
Yes
Dump to RSS, Database export
MySQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Cakewalk Blogs Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Yes
No
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
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