General Features | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
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Version |
1.2.2
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4.21
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2.0.7
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2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
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Release Date |
13/02/2007
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2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
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2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
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2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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Author |
Patrick Robin
|
Six Apart
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WordPress Development Team
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Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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License |
GPL
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GPL
|
BSD License
|
|
License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
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Free
|
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
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System Requirements | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Programming Language |
ASP 3.0
|
Perl 5
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PHP
|
asp.net 2.0
|
Operating System |
Windows
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Platform Independant
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Any Windows IIS platform
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Webserver |
IIS 5+
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Anything with PHP
|
IIS 4.0+
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other Requirements |
IIS process account write access to web folder
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Datastorage | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
MS SQL Server |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Other |
Access
|
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
|
None
|
Structured XML data store
|
Anti-Spam | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Akismet Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Word Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
posting timelimit, comment moderation queue, link analyser
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
various other plugins
|
|
User Access Features | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
LDAP Authentication |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Other Authentication |
Pluggable
|
None
|
Vista CardSpace pending
|
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Support | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Commercial Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Online Help |
http://www.hostforest.co.uk/Downloads/Blog/guide.pdf
|
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
http://dasblog.info/
|
Issue Tracker |
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
|
|
Books |
2-5
|
5+
|
None
|
|
Support Forum | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
IRC-Channel |
#movabletype @ freenode.net
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Blogging Features | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Trackback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Pingback |
No
|
Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Blog by Email |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Blog API |
XML-RPC and Atom
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
|
|
Post Editing | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Multi-paged posts |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Features | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
E-Mail on Followup |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Gravatars |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client + Server
|
None
|
|
Extended Features | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Google Sitemap |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Workflow | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Content Approval |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
none
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Content Import |
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
BlogML pending
|
|
Content Export |
Yes
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
BlogML pending
|
|
Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
HTML 4
|
Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | Forest Blog | Movable Type | Wordpress | dasBlog |
Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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