Ignition vs. LifeType

General Features Ignition LifeType
Version
1.0
1.2.6
Release Date
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Jacob Roeland
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GNU GPL v3
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
System Requirements Ignition LifeType
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Tested in Windows and Linux
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
Other Requirements
Datastorage Ignition LifeType
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
Other
Anti-Spam Ignition LifeType
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features Ignition LifeType
ACL
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
LDAP Authentication
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
Support Ignition LifeType
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Online Help
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Ignition LifeType
Categorization
Single
Single
Tags
No
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Ping Service Support
No
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing Ignition LifeType
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
Undo
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
File Upload
No
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Ignition LifeType
Comment Layout
None
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Extended Features Ignition LifeType
Plugin System
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Optional
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Workflow Ignition LifeType
Content Approval
No
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Interoperability Ignition LifeType
Content Import
Content Export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Administration Ignition LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
No
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Comment Administration
No
Yes
Syndication Ignition LifeType
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Ignition LifeType
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
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