Pebble vs. Movable Type vs. Wordpress vs. Serendipity

General Features Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Version
2.5.1
4.21
2.0.7
1.1
Release Date
29/11/2010
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (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
Simon Brown
Six Apart
WordPress Development Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Programming Language
Java
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Any Java Application Server
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
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 Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Other Authentication
Pluggable
None
Support Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
2-5
5+
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
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
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
No
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
No
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Comment Layout
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
Client + Server
None
Extended Features Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Optional
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Content Import
atom/rss
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
atom/rss
Yes
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
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 Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Pebble Movable Type Wordpress Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Plugin
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