Pebble vs. Wordpress vs. LifeType vs. typo

General Features Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Version
2.5.1
2.0.7
1.2.6
4.1.1
Release Date
29/11/2010
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2007-05-07 (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
Simon Brown
WordPress Development Team
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
MIT
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
All
Webserver
Any Java Application Server
Anything with PHP
Apache, IIS
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Other Requirements
Ruby
Datastorage Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
None
Anti-Spam Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Akismet Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
No
No
Other Authentication
None
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 Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
Issue Tracker
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
Books
None
5+
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Undo
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Comment Features Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
Client
Client
None
Extended Features Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Workflow Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Content Approval
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Content Import
atom/rss
from 22 other blog systems
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
Content Export
atom/rss
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
RSS, Atom
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 Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
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
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Pebble Wordpress LifeType typo
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
No
YouTube Support
No
No
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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