FlatPress vs. Jlog vs. LifeType vs. Loudblog vs. Movable Type vs. Pivot vs. PSG vs. Serendipity vs. typo vs. Wheatblog vs. WikyBlog

General Features FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Version
0.1010
1.0.2
1.2.6
0.6
4.21
1.40.6
1.12.0
1.1
4.1.1
1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-05-07 (16 years ago)
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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)
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
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Jeena Paradies / team
The LifeType Project
Gerrit van Aaken
Six Apart
Pivot Team
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
MIT
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
$0
Free
Free
0
0
$0.00
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
0
0
Multi-User Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
System Requirements FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl 5
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP, SQL
PHP
Operating System
Platform Independent
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
all
Platform Independant
Any
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
All
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, works on IIS
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Apache
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other Requirements
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Ruby
MySQL or SQLite
MySQL
Datastorage FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
XML-based flat file storage
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
IP Ban List
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
Definable Questions
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Other Authentication
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
You can write your own auth plugin
Support FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
None
2-5
None
None
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Blog API
WordPress (plugin)
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
none
XML-RPC and Atom
MetaWeblog, Moblog
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
No
Undo
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Comment Features FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Gravatars
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Client + Server
None
None
None
None
None
None
Extended Features FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Workflow FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Content Import
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
none
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
Content Export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
RSS
via RSS
Yes
Dump to RSS, Database export
RSS, Atom
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting FlatPress Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
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