SamePage vs. Movable Type vs. Wordpress vs. DotClear

General Features SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Version
3.3
4.21
2.0.7
2.1.3
Release Date
3.3
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 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
eTouch Systems
Six Apart
WordPress Development Team
Olivier Meunier
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
License Cost/ Fee
Pls check www.etouch.net
$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
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Hosting Features SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Programming Language
Java
Perl 5
PHP
PHP 5
Operating System
Windows/Linux/Solaris
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Webserver
Bundled with Tomcat. Can be proxied via webserver of choice
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Oracle 9i/10G, JSDK1.4
Datastorage SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
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
Anti-Spam SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Moderated Comments
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
various other plugins
Trackback validation
User Access Features SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Other Authentication
Single-Sign On
Pluggable
None
Extendable authentication API
Support SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
Available
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
Issue Tracker
support.etouch.net
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
Books
2-5
5+
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
Can be provided on request
XML-RPC and Atom
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Undo
Yes
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comment Features SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Gravatars
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
Extended Features SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
Yes
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Content Import
Using custom import framework
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
No
Yes
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
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 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting SamePage Movable Type Wordpress DotClear
Podcast Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
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