WeblogMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Version 0.6 4.21 2.0.7 2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
Release Date 2006-12-09 2008-08-21 2007-01-15 14 August 2007
Author Gerrit van Aaken Six Apart WordPress Development Team Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
URL loudblog.de www.movabletype.org wordpress.org dasblog.info
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL GPL GPL BSD License
License Cost/ Fee 0 $0 0 Free
Development status Beta Mature Mature Mature
Interface Languages about 10 English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch 46 Over a dozen languages
Multi-User Support Yes Yes Yes Optional
Multi-Site Deployment No Yes No Optional
System RequirementsLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Programming Language PHP Perl 5 PHP asp.net 2.0
Operating System all Platform Independant Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others Any Windows IIS platform
Webserver Apache, IIS Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver Anything with PHP IIS 4.0+
Root Access No No No No
Other Requirements       IIS process account write access to web folder
DatastorageLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Text Files No Yes No Yes
MySQL Yes Yes Yes No
PostgreSQL No Yes No No
Oracle No Yes No No
SQLite Yes Yes No No
BerkeleyDB No Yes No No
MS SQL Server No Yes No No
Other   LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license None Structured XML data store
Anti-SpamLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Akismet Support No Plugin Yes Yes
Word Blacklist No Yes Plugin Yes
IP Ban List No Yes Plugin Yes
CAPTCHA No Yes Plugin Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms Definable Questions Numerous plugins provide complete solution various other plugins  
User Access FeaturesLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
ACL   No Yes Yes
Audit Log   Yes No Yes
LDAP Authentication   Optional No  
Other Authentication   Pluggable None Vista CardSpace pending
SupportLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Commercial Support No Yes Yes No
Online Help loudblog.de www.sixapart.com codex.wordpress.org dasblog.info
Issue Tracker   bugs.movabletype.org trac.wordpress.org sourceforge.net
Books None 2-5 5+ None
Support Forum loudblog.de forums.movabletype.org wordpress.org dasblog.us
Mailing List   mtos-dev@sixapart.com codex.wordpress.org sourceforge.net
IRC-Channel   #movabletype @ freenode.net codex.wordpress.org  
Blogging FeaturesLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Categorization Multiple Multiple Multiple Multiple
Tags No Yes Plugin Yes
Archiving No Yes Yes No
Trackback No Send+Receive Send+Receive Send+Receive
Pingback No Receive Send+Receive Send+Receive
Ping Service Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Link- / Blogroll No Plugin Yes Yes
Protected Posts   Plugin Yes No
Blog by Email No Plugin Yes Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS No No   No
Blog API none XML-RPC and Atom metaWeblog, MovableType metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Post EditingLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Multi-paged posts No No Yes  
Spell Checker No No Yes No
WYSIWYG Editor No Yes Optional Yes
Undo No No No No
Syntax Highlighting No Yes Plugin Plugin
File Upload Yes Yes Yes Yes
Asset Management No Yes Plugin No
Emoticon Images No Plugin Yes Yes
Comment FeaturesLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Comment Layout Flat Threaded Flat Flat
Feeds for Comments Yes Optional Yes Yes
E-Mail on Followup No Plugin Plugin Yes
Gravatars No Plugin Plugin Yes
Open-ID Support None Client + Server   None
Extended FeaturesLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes
Photo Gallery No Plugin Plugin No
Polls / Surveys No Plugin Plugin No
Search Engine No Yes Yes Yes
Custom Pages No Yes Yes Patch
Google Sitemap No Plugin Plugin Yes
WorkflowLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Content Approval Yes Yes No Yes
Versioning No Yes No  
Article Publishing scheduled scheduled simple scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue No Yes Yes Yes
InteroperabilityLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Content Import none Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR from 22 other blog systems BlogML pending
Content Export via RSS Yes Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML BlogML pending
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
WebDAV Support Yes No   No
HTML Output XHTML 1.0 Strict XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4
Friendly URLs No Yes Yes Yes
AdministrationLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
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
SyndicationLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
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/VideocastingLoudblog DetailsMovable Type DetailsWordpress DetailsdasBlog Details
Podcast Feeds Yes Plugin Yes Yes
ID3-Tag Editor Yes Yes No No
YouTube Support No Plugin No No
Media Converter No No No No
Phone2Podcast Support No No No No
Last updated2007-01-272008-10-112007-03-012007-08-18

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