dasBlog vs. Movable Type vs. Wordpress vs. Blogger

General Features dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
4.21
2.0.7
N/A
Release Date
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
N/A
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
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Six Apart
WordPress Development Team
Google Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
BSD License
GPL
GPL
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Free
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
No
No
Hosting Features dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
System Requirements dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
Perl 5
PHP
N/A
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
N/A
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
N/A
Datastorage dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
N/A
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
N/A
Oracle
No
Yes
No
N/A
SQLite
No
Yes
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
N/A
MS SQL Server
No
Yes
No
N/A
Other
Structured XML data store
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
None
N/A
Anti-Spam dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
N/A
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
various other plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Optional
No
N/A
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Pluggable
None
N/A
Support dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://help.blogger.com/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
Books
None
2-5
5+
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
None
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
XML-RPC and Atom
metaWeblog, MovableType
Blogger data API
Post Editing dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comment Features dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
Extended Features dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Workflow dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
No
Versioning
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Content Import
BlogML pending
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
from 22 other blog systems
none
Content Export
BlogML pending
Yes
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
HTML via FTP/SFTP
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 dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog Movable Type Wordpress Blogger
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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