General Features | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
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Version |
4.21
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1.1
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2.0.7
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2.1.3
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Release Date |
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
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2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
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2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
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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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Author |
Six Apart
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
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WordPress Development Team
|
Olivier Meunier
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
GPL
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BSD
|
GPL
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GPL v2
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License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Interface Languages |
0
|
0
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0
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0
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Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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System Requirements | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Programming Language |
Perl 5
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP 5
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Operating System |
Platform Independant
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
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Unix/Linux, Windows
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Webserver |
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Anything with PHP
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Apache, Lighthttpd
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Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
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Datastorage | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
BerkeleyDB |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
MS SQL Server |
Yes
|
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
|
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Anti-Spam | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
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various other plugins
|
Trackback validation
|
User Access Features | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Audit Log |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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LDAP Authentication |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Other Authentication |
Pluggable
|
None
|
Extendable authentication API
|
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Support | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Online Help |
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
Issue Tracker |
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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http://trac.wordpress.org/
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http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
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Books |
2-5
|
None
|
5+
|
1
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Support Forum | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
IRC-Channel |
#movabletype @ freenode.net
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#dotclear on freenode
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Blogging Features | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Pingback |
Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Blog by Email |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Blog API |
XML-RPC and Atom
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
Post Editing | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Multi-paged posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Undo |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Comment Features | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Open-ID Support |
Client + Server
|
None
|
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Extended Features | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Workflow | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Content Approval |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
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
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | Movable Type | Serendipity | Wordpress | DotClear |
Podcast Feeds |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
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