General Features | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
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Version |
1.0d
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2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
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1.2.6
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0.6
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4.21
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3.24
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1.40.6
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1.12.0
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1.1
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4.1.1
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1.1
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Release Date |
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
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2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
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2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
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2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
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2008-08-20 (16 years ago)
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2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
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2008-07-13 (16 years ago)
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2006-08-22 (18 years ago)
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2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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2007-05-07 (17 years ago)
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2006-06-29 (18 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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Author |
David Pinero
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Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
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The LifeType Project
|
Gerrit van Aaken
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Six Apart
|
Wouter Demuynck and others
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Pivot Team
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The PSG Team
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Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
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Wheat, Josh, Pete
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URL | |||||||||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
GPL
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BSD License
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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BSD
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MIT
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GPL
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License Cost/ Fee |
Free
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0
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0
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$0
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free
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Free
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Free
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0
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0
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$0.00
|
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Beta
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Beta
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Interface Languages |
0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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4
German, English, French, Romanian |
0
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Multi-User Support |
Unknown
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Multi-Site Deployment |
Unknown
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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System Requirements | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Programming Language |
Classic ASP
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asp.net 2.0
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PHP
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PHP
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Perl 5
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PHP
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PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
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PHP
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PHP
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Ruby on Rails
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PHP, SQL
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Operating System |
Windows
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Any Windows IIS platform
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Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
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all
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Platform Independant
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Linux, Windows, UNIX
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Any
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Any
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
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All
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Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
|
Webserver |
IIS 4.0+
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IIS 4.0+
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Apache, IIS
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Apache, IIS
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
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Apache with PHP
|
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
|
Any
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
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Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
|
Apache
|
Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Other Requirements |
IIS process account write access to web folder
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None
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Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
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Ruby
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MySQL or SQLite
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Datastorage | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Text Files |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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MySQL |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
|
No
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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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MS SQL Server |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Other |
MS Access
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Structured XML data store
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LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
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XML-based flat file storage
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New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
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Anti-Spam | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Akismet Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Word Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
|
No
|
IP Ban List |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
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Definable Questions
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
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SpamBayes, MBL
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Moderation, link condom
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URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
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User Access Features | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
ACL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Audit Log |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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LDAP Authentication |
Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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Optional
|
No
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No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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No
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Other Authentication |
Vista CardSpace pending
|
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
|
Pluggable
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You can write your own auth plugin
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Support | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Commercial Support |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Online Help |
http://dasblog.info/
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http://wiki.lifetype.net
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http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
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http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
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http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
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http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
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http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
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http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
|
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Issue Tracker |
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
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http://bugs.lifetype.net
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http://bugs.movabletype.org/
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http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
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http://forum.pivotlog.net/
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http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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http://trac.typosphere.org/report
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
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Books |
None
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None
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None
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2-5
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1
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None
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None
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None
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None
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None
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Support Forum | |||||||||||
Mailing List | |||||||||||
IRC-Channel |
#movabletype @ freenode.net
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Blogging Features | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
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Multiple
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Single
|
Multiple
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None
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Multiple
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Multiple
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Single
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Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Trackback |
No
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Send+Receive
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Send+Receive
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No
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Send+Receive
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Send+Receive
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Send+Receive
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Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
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No
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Pingback |
No
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Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
Receive
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
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Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Blog by Email |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Blog API |
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
none
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
|
MetaWeblog, Moblog
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
|
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Post Editing | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Undo |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Asset Management |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Comment Features | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Gravatars |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client
|
None
|
Client + Server
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Extended Features | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Photo Gallery |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Polls / Surveys |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Google Sitemap |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Workflow | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Content Approval |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Interoperability | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Content Import |
BlogML pending
|
none
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
yes
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
|
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Content Export |
BlogML pending
|
via RSS
|
Yes
|
backup to SQL
|
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
RSS, Atom
|
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Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
WebDAV Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
HTML Output |
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.1
|
|
Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Administration | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
RSS 0.9x |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | Battle Blog | dasBlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo | Wheatblog |
Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Phone2Podcast Support |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Plugin
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No
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No
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remove Battle Blog | remove dasBlog | remove LifeType | remove Loudblog | remove Movable Type | remove NucleusCMS | remove Pivot | remove PSG | remove Serendipity | remove typo | remove Wheatblog |