DotClear vs. ExpressionEngine vs. Geeklog vs. LifeType vs. Movable Type vs. NucleusCMS vs. Serendipity vs. Textpattern vs. WikyBlog vs. Wordpress

2.1.3

1.6

1.8.2

1.2.6

4.21

3.24

1.1

4.0.7

1.5.4

2.0.7

Olivier Meunier

EllisLab, Inc.

Geeklog Team

The LifeType Project

Six Apart

Wouter Demuynck and others

Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al

Team Textpattern

Josh Schmidt

WordPress Development Team

GPL v2

Proprietary

GNU version 2

GPL

GPL

GPL

BSD

GPL

GPL

GPL

0

From 0$ - 249.95$

none

0

$0

free

0

0

0

0

PHP 5

PHP

php

PHP

Perl 5

PHP

PHP

PHP 4.3+

PHP

PHP

Unix/Linux, Windows

Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris

any

Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X

Platform Independant

Linux, Windows, UNIX

Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others

Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix

UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others

Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others

Apache, Lighthttpd

IIS, Apache

any

Apache, IIS

Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver

Apache with PHP

Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)

Apache, IIS, lighttp

Apache, anything with PHP

Anything with PHP

PHP must have XML support

PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher

Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)

MySQL 3.23+

MySQL

No

no

LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license

New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL

None

Trackback validation

Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension

BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins

BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form

Numerous plugins provide complete solution

SpamBayes, MBL

URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,

Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps

various other plugins

Extendable authentication API

No

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

None

http://dotclear.org/documentation/

http://expressionengine.com/support/

http://www.geeklog.net/docs/

http://wiki.lifetype.net

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/

http://faq.nucleuscms.org/

http://www.s9y.org/33.html

http://textpattern.com/

http://www.wikyblog.com/help

http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0

http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/

http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse

http://bugs.lifetype.net

http://bugs.movabletype.org/

http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse

http://textpattern.googlecode.com/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/

http://trac.wordpress.org/

WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger

Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog

Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type

XML-RPC and Atom

Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API

MovableType, Blogger

MovableType, metaWeblog

metaWeblog, MovableType

MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV

Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR

yes

WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...

WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2

from 22 other blog systems

MySQL

Yes

backup to SQL

Dump to RSS, Database export

Unlimited, template-based

Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML