General Features | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
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Version |
1.6
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2.0.7
|
1.0
|
N/A
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4.0.7
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1.40.6
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Release Date |
2004-04-22 (20 years ago)
|
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
|
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2008-11-28 (15 years ago)
|
2008-07-13 (16 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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Author |
EllisLab, Inc.
|
WordPress Development Team
|
Jacob Roeland
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Google Inc.
|
Team Textpattern
|
Pivot Team
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URL | ||||||
Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
License |
Proprietary
|
GPL
|
GNU GPL v3
|
N/A
|
GPL
|
GPL
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License Cost/ Fee |
From 0$ - 249.95$
|
0
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Free
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Hosting Features | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
System Requirements | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
N/A
|
PHP 4.3+
|
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
|
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Tested in Windows and Linux
|
N/A
|
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
|
Any
|
Webserver |
IIS, Apache
|
Anything with PHP
|
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
|
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, lighttp
|
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Other Requirements |
PHP must have XML support
|
N/A
|
MySQL 3.23+
|
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Datastorage | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Other |
No
|
None
|
N/A
|
XML-based flat file storage
|
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Anti-Spam | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
|
various other plugins
|
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
|
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
|
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User Access Features | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Audit Log |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Other Authentication |
No
|
None
|
N/A
|
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Support | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Online Help |
http://expressionengine.com/support/
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://help.blogger.com/
|
http://textpattern.com/
|
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
|
Issue Tracker |
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
|
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
|
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
|
Books |
None
|
5+
|
None
|
None
|
1
|
None
|
Support Forum | ||||||
Mailing List | ||||||
IRC-Channel |
#textpattern on freenode
|
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Blogging Features | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
None
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Pingback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Blog by Email |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Blog API |
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
Blogger data API
|
MovableType, metaWeblog
|
MetaWeblog, Moblog
|
|
Post Editing | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Comment Features | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
None
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Extended Features | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Google Sitemap |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Workflow | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Content Approval |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Content Import |
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
none
|
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
|
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Content Export |
MySQL
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
HTML via FTP/SFTP
|
Unlimited, template-based
|
||
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Trash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | ExpressionEngine | Wordpress | Ignition | Blogger | Textpattern | Pivot |
Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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