| General Features | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Version |
1.2.6 |
4.21 |
2.0.7 |
1.1 |
Release Date |
Feb-2008 |
2008-08-21 |
2007-01-15 |
2006-12-28 |
Author |
The LifeType Project |
Six Apart |
WordPress Development Team |
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al |
URL |
lifetype.net |
www.movabletype.org |
wordpress.org |
www.s9y.org |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
BSD |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
$0 |
0 |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Interface Languages |
English, Spanish, Catalan, German, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Dutch, Italian, French |
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch |
46 |
English, German, Danish, French and many more |
Multi-User Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Multi-Site Deployment |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
| System Requirements | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Programming Language |
PHP |
Perl 5 |
PHP |
PHP |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X |
Platform Independant |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Webserver |
Apache, IIS |
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver |
Anything with PHP |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS) |
Root Access |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other Requirements |
|
|
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Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite) |
| Datastorage | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Text Files |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
MySQL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
PostgreSQL |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Oracle |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
SQLite |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
MS SQL Server |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Other |
|
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license |
 None |
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL |
| Anti-Spam | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Akismet Support |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Word Blacklist |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
IP Ban List |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
CAPTCHA |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form |
Numerous plugins provide complete solution |
various other plugins |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks, |
| User Access Features | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
ACL |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Audit Log |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
LDAP Authentication |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
 Plugin |
Other Authentication |
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 |
Pluggable |
 None |
|
| Support | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Commercial Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Online Help |
wiki.lifetype.net |
www.sixapart.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
www.s9y.org |
Issue Tracker |
bugs.lifetype.net |
bugs.movabletype.org |
trac.wordpress.org |
sourceforge.net |
Books |
 None |
2-5 |
5+ |
 None |
Support Forum |
bugs.lifetype.net |
forums.movabletype.org |
wordpress.org |
board.s9y.org |
Mailing List |
limedaley.com |
mtos-dev@sixapart.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
lists.sourceforge.net |
IRC-Channel |
|
#movabletype @ freenode.net |
codex.wordpress.org |
www.s9y.org |
| Blogging Features | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Categorization |
Single |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Tags |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Archiving |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trackback |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Pingback |
 No |
Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Ping Service Support |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Link- / Blogroll |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Protected Posts |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Blog by Email |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Blog by SMS/MMS |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
 No |
Blog API |
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type |
XML-RPC and Atom |
metaWeblog, MovableType |
MovableType, Blogger |
| Post Editing | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Multi-paged posts |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Spell Checker |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
WYSIWYG Editor |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Optional |
Undo |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
File Upload |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Asset Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Emoticon Images |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Comment Features | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Comment Layout |
Threaded |
Threaded |
Flat |
Threaded |
Feeds for Comments |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
E-Mail on Followup |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Gravatars |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Open-ID Support |
Client |
Client + Server |
|
 None |
| Extended Features | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Photo Gallery |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Polls / Surveys |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Search Engine |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom Pages |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Google Sitemap |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
| Workflow | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Content Approval |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 Optional |
Versioning |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Article Publishing |
scheduled |
scheduled |
simple |
scheduled |
Comment Moderation Queue |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Interoperability | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Content Import |
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR |
from 22 other blog systems |
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ... |
Content Export |
|
 Yes |
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML |
Dump to RSS, Database export |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WebDAV Support |
 No |
 No |
|
 No |
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.1 |
Friendly URLs |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Administration | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
E-Mail Notifications |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Themes / Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trash |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Web Statistics |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Web-based Style / Template Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comment Administration |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Syndication | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
RSS 0.9x |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS 1.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS 2.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM 0.3 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
ATOM 1.0 |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Podcasting/Videocasting | LifeType  | Movable Type  | Wordpress  | Serendipity  |
Podcast Feeds |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
ID3-Tag Editor |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
YouTube Support |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
Media Converter |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Phone2Podcast Support |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
| Last updated | 2008-02-20 | 2008-10-11 | 2007-03-01 | 2007-01-18 |
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