blogSpirit vs. b2evolution vs. Textpattern vs. Movable Type vs. Serendipity vs. ExpressionEngine

General Features blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Version
5.0
2.4
4.0.7
4.21
1.1
1.6
Release Date
2007
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-11-28 (15 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2004-04-22 (19 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
blogSpirit
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Team Textpattern
Six Apart
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
EllisLab, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
From $0 to Enterprise
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Proprietary
License Cost/ Fee
From $0 to Enterprise
0 - Free
0
$0
0
From 0$ - 249.95$
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
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
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Storage Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
does not apply
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
Yes
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
does not apply
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP 4.3+
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux
Linux, Windows or other
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Webserver
Apache
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, IIS, lighttp
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
IIS, Apache
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
None
MySQL 3.23+
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP must have XML support
Datastorage blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
(must overload DB abstraction class)
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
No
Anti-Spam blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Antispam spirit
several specialized antispam plugins
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
User Access Features blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
DNA SSO
OpenID plugin
Pluggable
No
Support blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Online Help
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://textpattern.com/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://expressionengine.com/support/
Issue Tracker
DNA/ys
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
Books
1
1
2-5
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#textpattern on freenode
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, metaWeblog
XML-RPC and Atom
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
Post Editing blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Workflow blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Content Import
Movable Type, blogSpirit
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
Content Export
blogSpirit
Unlimited, template-based
Yes
Dump to RSS, Database export
MySQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting blogSpirit b2evolution Textpattern Movable Type Serendipity ExpressionEngine
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Yes
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