General Features | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
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Version |
5.0
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2.5.1
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1.1
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4.21
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0.1010
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Release Date |
2007
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29/11/2010
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2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
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2009-01-23 (15 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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Author |
blogSpirit
|
Simon Brown
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Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
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Six Apart
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NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
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URL | |||||
Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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License |
From $0 to Enterprise
|
BSD
|
BSD
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GPL
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GPLv2
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License Cost/ Fee |
From $0 to Enterprise
|
0
|
0
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$0
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Free
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Beta
|
Interface Languages |
0
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0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Hosting Features | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Storage Quota |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Other Limits |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Corporate Branding |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Topic Restrictions |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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System Requirements | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
|
PHP
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Perl 5
|
PHP4, compatible with 5
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Operating System |
Linux
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Platform Independant
|
Platform Independent
|
Webserver |
Apache
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Any Java Application Server
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Apache, works on IIS
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other Requirements |
None
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Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
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Datastorage | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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SQLite |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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Other |
None
|
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
|
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Anti-Spam | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Akismet Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Antispam spirit
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
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User Access Features | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Other Authentication |
DNA SSO
|
Pluggable
|
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Support | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Online Help |
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
|
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
Issue Tracker |
DNA/ys
|
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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http://bugs.movabletype.org/
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http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
Books |
1
|
None
|
None
|
2-5
|
None
|
Support Forum | |||||
Mailing List | |||||
IRC-Channel |
#movabletype @ freenode.net
|
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Blogging Features | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Receive
|
|
Ping Service Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Blog by Email |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Blog API |
XML-RPC and Atom
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
WordPress (plugin)
|
|
Post Editing | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Comment Features | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Gravatars |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client
|
None
|
Client + Server
|
|
Extended Features | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Polls / Surveys |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Workflow | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Content Approval |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Interoperability | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Content Import |
Movable Type, blogSpirit
|
atom/rss
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
|
Content Export |
blogSpirit
|
atom/rss
|
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
Yes
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
|
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
RSS 0.9x |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | blogSpirit | Pebble | Serendipity | Movable Type | FlatPress |
Podcast Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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