Pivot vs. Blogger vs. ExpressionEngine vs. LifeType

General Features Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Version
1.40.6
N/A
1.6
1.2.6
Release Date
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
N/A
2004-04-22 (19 years ago)
2008-01-31 (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
Pivot Team
Google Inc.
EllisLab, Inc.
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
Proprietary
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
From 0$ - 249.95$
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Programming Language
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
N/A
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Any
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
N/A
IIS, Apache
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP must have XML support
Datastorage Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Text Files
Yes
N/A
No
No
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
No
Other
XML-based flat file storage
N/A
No
Anti-Spam Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Akismet Support
No
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
No
N/A
No
No
Other Authentication
N/A
No
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 Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Categorization
Multiple
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog API
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Blogger data API
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Undo
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Client
Extended Features Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Workflow Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Content Import
none
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
MySQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Pivot Blogger ExpressionEngine LifeType
Podcast Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
YouTube Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
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