| General Features | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.6
|
4.21
|
3.24
|
1.40.6
|
1.12.0
|
1.1
|
4.1.1
|
| Release Date |
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
|
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
|
2006-11-10 (17 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)
|
| 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)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Gerrit van Aaken
|
Six Apart
|
Wouter Demuynck and others
|
Pivot Team
|
The PSG Team
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
|
|
| URL | |||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
MIT
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
$0
|
free
|
Free
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Beta
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
4
German, English, French, Romanian |
| Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl 5
|
PHP
|
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Ruby on Rails
|
| Operating System |
all
|
Platform Independant
|
Linux, Windows, UNIX
|
Any
|
Any
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
All
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Apache with PHP
|
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
|
Any
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
Ruby
|
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| Datastorage | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
Yes
|
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
|
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| Anti-Spam | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Akismet Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Word Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP Ban List |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Definable Questions
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
SpamBayes, MBL
|
Moderation, link condom
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
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| User Access Features | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
Pluggable
|
You can write your own auth plugin
|
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| Support | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Online Help |
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
|
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
|
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
|
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
|
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
|
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
|
|
| Books |
None
|
2-5
|
1
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
| Support Forum | |||||||
| Mailing List | |||||||
| IRC-Channel |
#movabletype @ freenode.net
|
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| Blogging Features | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
| Pingback |
No
|
Receive
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
| Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blog by Email |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Blog API |
none
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
|
MetaWeblog, Moblog
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
|
|
| Post Editing | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Spell Checker |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Undo |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comment Features | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client + Server
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
| Extended Features | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Workflow | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Content Approval |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Versioning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Content Import |
none
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
yes
|
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 |
via RSS
|
Yes
|
backup to SQL
|
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
RSS, Atom
|
||
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | Pivot | PSG | Serendipity | typo |
| Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
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