| General Features | b2evolution  | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
 Version |
2.4 |
does not apply | 4.21 |
4.1.1 |
2.0.7 |
| Release Date |
02-dec-2006 |
does not apply | 2008-08-21 |
08 May 2007 |
2007-01-15 |
| Author |
Francois Planque / evoTeam |
Google Inc. |
Six Apart |
|
WordPress Development Team |
| URL |
b2evolution.net |
www.blogger.com |
www.movabletype.org |
typosphere.org |
wordpress.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
GPL |
does not apply | GPL |
MIT |
GPL |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free |
0 |
$0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Interface Languages |
en,fr,de,da,id,fi,it,ja,nl,sv |
9 |
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch |
en, fr, de, ro |
46 |
| Multi-User Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes |
 No |
Yes |
No |
 No |
| Hosting Features | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Programming Language |
PHP |
does not apply | Perl 5 |
Ruby on Rails |
PHP |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other |
does not apply | Platform Independant |
All |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other |
does not apply | Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ... |
Anything with PHP |
| Root Access |
|
does not apply | No |
Yes |
No |
| Other Requirements |
|
does not apply | |
Ruby |
|
| Datastorage | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Text Files |
No |
does not apply | Yes |
|
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
No |
| MS SQL Server |
No |
does not apply | Yes |
|
No |
| Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class) |
does not apply | LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license |
|
None |
| Anti-Spam | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Akismet Support |
 Plugin |
does not apply | Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Word Blacklist |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| IP Ban List |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Plugin |
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only |
Numerous plugins provide complete solution |
|
various other plugins |
| User Access Features | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Audit Log |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| LDAP Authentication |
Plugin |
does not apply |  Optional |
No |
No |
| Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin |
does not apply | Pluggable |
|
None |
| Support | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Commercial Support |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Online Help |
manual.b2evolution.net |
help.blogger.com |
www.sixapart.com |
trac.typosphere.org |
codex.wordpress.org |
| Issue Tracker |
|
knownissues.blogspot.com |
bugs.movabletype.org |
trac.typosphere.org |
trac.wordpress.org |
| Books |
|
None |
2-5 |
None |
5+ |
| Support Forum |
forums.b2evolution.net |
groups.google.com |
forums.movabletype.org |
|
wordpress.org |
| Mailing List |
|
groups.google.com |
mtos-dev@sixapart.com |
trac.typosphere.org |
codex.wordpress.org |
| IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net |
No |
#movabletype @ freenode.net |
trac.typosphere.org |
codex.wordpress.org |
| Blogging Features | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Categorization |
Multiple |
None |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Multiple |
| Tags |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Archiving |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Trackback |
Send+Receive |
No |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
| Pingback |
|
No |
Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
| Ping Service Support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Protected Posts |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Blog by Email |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
|
| Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2 |
Blogger data API |
XML-RPC and Atom |
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType |
metaWeblog, MovableType |
| Post Editing | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Multi-paged posts |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Spell Checker |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
| Undo |
No |
|
No |
|
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| File Upload |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Asset Management |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
| Comment Features | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Comment Layout |
Flat |
Flat |
Threaded |
Flat |
Flat |
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Gravatars |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Open-ID Support |
Client |
None |
Client + Server |
None |
|
| Extended Features | b2evolution | Blogger | Movable Type | typo | Wordpress |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Photo Gallery |
Yes |
|
Wikis
Forums
Podcatchers
Weblogs
