FlatPress vs. Movable Type vs. Battle Blog vs. NucleusCMS

General Features FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Version
0.1010
4.21
1.0d
3.24
Release Date
2009-01-24 (17 years ago)
2008-08-21 (17 years ago)
2006-11-08 (19 years ago)
2006-11-11 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Six Apart
David Pinero
Wouter Demuynck and others
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
$0
free
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
System Requirements FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Programming Language
PHP4, compatible with 5
Perl 5
Classic ASP
PHP
Operating System
Platform Independent
Platform Independant
Windows
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Webserver
Apache, works on IIS
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Datastorage FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
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
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
MS Access
Anti-Spam FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
IP Ban List
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
ACL
No
No
No
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
No
Other Authentication
Pluggable
Support FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
Issue Tracker
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
Books
None
2-5
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by Email
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
WordPress (plugin)
XML-RPC and Atom
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Undo
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Comment Features FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
None
Extended Features FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Workflow FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Content Import
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
yes
Content Export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Yes
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting FlatPress Movable Type Battle Blog NucleusCMS
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
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