Ignition vs. Wordpress vs. Blogger vs. LifeType

General Features Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Version
1.0
2.0.7
N/A
1.2.6
Release Date
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
N/A
2008-01-31 (16 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
Jacob Roeland
WordPress Development Team
Google Inc.
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GNU GPL v3
GPL
N/A
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
N/A
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
No
Yes
Hosting Features Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
System Requirements Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
PHP
Operating System
Tested in Windows and Linux
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
N/A
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
Anything with PHP
N/A
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Datastorage Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Text Files
Yes
No
N/A
No
MySQL
No
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
No
Other
None
N/A
Anti-Spam Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Akismet Support
No
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
No
N/A
No
Other Authentication
None
N/A
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
Support Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://help.blogger.com/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
None
5+
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Categorization
Single
Multiple
None
Single
Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
No
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
Blogger data API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Comment Features Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Comment Layout
None
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
No
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client
Extended Features Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Workflow Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Content Approval
No
No
No
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
none
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Ignition Wordpress Blogger LifeType
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
No
YouTube Support
No
No
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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