General Features | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
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Version |
1.0
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1.6
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4.21
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2.0.7
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N/A
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Release Date |
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
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2004-04-22 (20 years ago)
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2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
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2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
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N/A
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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 |
Jacob Roeland
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EllisLab, Inc.
|
Six Apart
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WordPress Development Team
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Google Inc.
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URL | |||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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N/A
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License |
GNU GPL v3
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Proprietary
|
GPL
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GPL
|
N/A
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License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
From 0$ - 249.95$
|
$0
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0
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0
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Development status |
Beta
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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N/A
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Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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Multi-User Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Hosting Features | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
|
System Requirements | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl 5
|
PHP
|
N/A
|
Operating System |
Tested in Windows and Linux
|
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
|
Platform Independant
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
N/A
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Webserver |
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
|
IIS, Apache
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Anything with PHP
|
N/A
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Other Requirements |
PHP must have XML support
|
N/A
|
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Datastorage | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
Other |
No
|
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
|
None
|
N/A
|
|
Anti-Spam | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Akismet Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Word Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
IP Ban List |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
various other plugins
|
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
|
|
User Access Features | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
N/A
|
Other Authentication |
No
|
Pluggable
|
None
|
N/A
|
|
Support | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Commercial Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Online Help |
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://expressionengine.com/support/
|
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
http://help.blogger.com/
|
Issue Tracker |
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
|
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
|
Books |
None
|
None
|
2-5
|
5+
|
None
|
Support Forum | |||||
Mailing List | |||||
IRC-Channel |
#movabletype @ freenode.net
|
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Blogging Features | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Categorization |
Single
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Pingback |
No
|
No
|
Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Link- / Blogroll |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Blog by Email |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Blog API |
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
Blogger data API
|
|
Post Editing | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Multi-paged posts |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Undo |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
File Upload |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Features | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Comment Layout |
None
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
E-Mail on Followup |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
Client + Server
|
None
|
|
Extended Features | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Photo Gallery |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Google Sitemap |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Workflow | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Content Approval |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Versioning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Content Import |
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
none
|
|
Content Export |
MySQL
|
Yes
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
HTML via FTP/SFTP
|
|
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
HTML Output |
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
E-Mail Notifications |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | Ignition | ExpressionEngine | Movable Type | Wordpress | Blogger |
Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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