| General Features | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0
|
1.40.6
|
1.1
|
0.1010
|
2.0.7
|
| Release Date |
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
|
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
|
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
|
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
|
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
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 |
Jacob Roeland
|
Pivot Team
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
|
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
|
WordPress Development Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GNU GPL v3
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPLv2
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
Free
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Beta
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
|
PHP
|
PHP4, compatible with 5
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Tested in Windows and Linux
|
Any
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Platform Independent
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
| Webserver |
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
|
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Apache, works on IIS
|
Anything with PHP
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
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| Datastorage | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
XML-based flat file storage
|
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
None
|
||
| Anti-Spam | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Akismet Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Word Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| IP Ban List |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
various other plugins
|
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| User Access Features | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
None
|
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| Support | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
| Issue Tracker |
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
| Books |
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
5+
|
| Support Forum | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| IRC-Channel | |||||
| Blogging Features | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Categorization |
Single
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Pingback |
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blog by Email |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Blog API |
MetaWeblog, Moblog
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
WordPress (plugin)
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
|
| Post Editing | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Spell Checker |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Undo |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| File Upload |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comment Features | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Comment Layout |
None
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
None
|
||
| Extended Features | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Search Engine |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Workflow | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Content Approval |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Content Import |
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
||
| Content Export |
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
||
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Output |
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| E-Mail Notifications |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | Ignition | Pivot | Serendipity | FlatPress | Wordpress |
| Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
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