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General Features Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Version
N/A
2.4
4.21
1.6
2.0.7
1.0
Release Date
N/A
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2004-04-22 (19 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2013-09-16 (10 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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Six Apart
EllisLab, Inc.
WordPress Development Team
Jacob Roeland
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
Proprietary
GPL
GNU GPL v3
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 - Free
$0
From 0$ - 249.95$
0
Free
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Hosting Features Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows or other
Platform Independant
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Tested in Windows and Linux
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
IIS, Apache
Anything with PHP
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP must have XML support
Datastorage Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
N/A
(must overload DB abstraction class)
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
No
None
Anti-Spam Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Akismet Support
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
several specialized antispam plugins
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
various other plugins
User Access Features Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Other Authentication
N/A
OpenID plugin
Pluggable
No
None
Support Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
Books
None
2-5
None
5+
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Categorization
None
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
Receive
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
XML-RPC and Atom
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Undo
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
None
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Workflow Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Content Import
none
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Yes
MySQL
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syndication Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger b2evolution Movable Type ExpressionEngine Wordpress Ignition
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
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