PSG vs. Movable Type vs. Wordpress vs. Battle Blog

General Features PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Version
1.12.0
4.21
2.0.7
1.0d
Release Date
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 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
The PSG Team
Six Apart
WordPress Development Team
David Pinero
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
System Requirements PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Programming Language
PHP
Perl 5
PHP
Classic ASP
Operating System
Any
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows
Webserver
Any
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP
IIS 4.0+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
Datastorage PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
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
No
Yes
No
No
Other
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
None
MS Access
Anti-Spam PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Moderation, link condom
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
various other plugins
User Access Features PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Other Authentication
You can write your own auth plugin
Pluggable
None
Support PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Issue Tracker
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
Books
None
2-5
5+
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Categorization
None
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Link- / Blogroll
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Undo
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comment Features PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
Extended Features PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Content Import
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
Yes
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Administration PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting PSG Movable Type Wordpress Battle Blog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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