General Features | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
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Version |
2.5.1
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1.6
|
2.4
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5.0
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4.21
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Release Date |
29/11/2010
|
2004-04-22 (19 years ago)
|
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
|
2007
|
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
|
Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
Author |
Simon Brown
|
EllisLab, Inc.
|
Francois Planque / evoTeam
|
blogSpirit
|
Six Apart
|
URL | |||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
License |
BSD
|
Proprietary
|
GPL
|
From $0 to Enterprise
|
GPL
|
License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
From 0$ - 249.95$
|
0 - Free
|
From $0 to Enterprise
|
$0
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
|
0
|
Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Hosting Features | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
does not apply
|
N/A
|
Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
does not apply
|
N/A
|
Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
does not apply
|
N/A
|
Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
does not apply
|
N/A
|
System Requirements | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Programming Language |
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl 5
|
Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
|
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
|
Linux, Windows or other
|
Linux
|
Platform Independant
|
Webserver |
Any Java Application Server
|
IIS, Apache
|
Apache, IIS or other
|
Apache
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Other Requirements |
PHP must have XML support
|
None
|
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Datastorage | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Other |
No
|
(must overload DB abstraction class)
|
None
|
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
|
|
Anti-Spam | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Akismet Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Word Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
IP Ban List |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
|
several specialized antispam plugins
|
Antispam spirit
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
|
User Access Features | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Audit Log |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
LDAP Authentication |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Other Authentication |
No
|
OpenID plugin
|
DNA SSO
|
Pluggable
|
|
Support | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Commercial Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Online Help |
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
|
http://expressionengine.com/support/
|
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
|
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
Issue Tracker |
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
|
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
|
DNA/ys
|
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
|
|
Books |
None
|
None
|
1
|
2-5
|
|
Support Forum | |||||
Mailing List | |||||
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
|
#movabletype @ freenode.net
|
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Blogging Features | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Pingback |
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Receive
|
|
Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blog by Email |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Blog API |
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
|
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
|
Post Editing | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Multi-paged posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Undo |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Comment Features | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Open-ID Support |
Client
|
None
|
Client
|
None
|
Client + Server
|
Extended Features | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Workflow | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Content Approval |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Article Publishing |
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Interoperability | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Content Import |
atom/rss
|
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
|
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
Movable Type, blogSpirit
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
Content Export |
atom/rss
|
MySQL
|
blogSpirit
|
Yes
|
|
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
HTML Output |
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
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
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | Pebble | ExpressionEngine | b2evolution | blogSpirit | Movable Type |
Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
YouTube Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
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