blogSpirit vs. Movable Type vs. Wordpress vs. WikyBlog

General Features blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Version
5.0
4.21
2.0.7
1.5.4
Release Date
2007
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (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
blogSpirit
Six Apart
WordPress Development Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
From $0 to Enterprise
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
From $0 to Enterprise
$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
No
Hosting Features blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Storage Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
MySQL
Datastorage blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
None
Anti-Spam blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Antispam spirit
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
various other plugins
User Access Features blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Optional
No
No
Other Authentication
DNA SSO
Pluggable
None
Support blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
DNA/ys
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
1
2-5
5+
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
No
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
XML-RPC and Atom
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Undo
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
Extended Features blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Workflow blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Content Import
Movable Type, blogSpirit
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
blogSpirit
Yes
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
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
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting blogSpirit Movable Type Wordpress WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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