Movable Type vs. Serendipity vs. WikyBlog vs. Wordpress vs. PSG vs. Pivot

General Features Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Version
4.21
1.1
1.5.4
2.0.7
1.12.0
1.40.6
Release Date
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 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)
Author
Six Apart
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Josh Schmidt
WordPress Development Team
The PSG Team
Pivot Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Programming Language
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
Operating System
Platform Independant
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Any
Any
Webserver
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, anything with PHP
Anything with PHP
Any
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL
None
Datastorage Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Other
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
None
XML-based flat file storage
Anti-Spam Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
various other plugins
Moderation, link condom
User Access Features Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
Pluggable
None
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
Books
2-5
None
None
5+
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blog by Email
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
MovableType, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Post Editing Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comment Features Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Comment Layout
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Workflow Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Content Approval
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Versioning
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Content Import
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
Yes
Dump to RSS, Database export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Trash
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Movable Type Serendipity WikyBlog Wordpress PSG Pivot
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
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