typo vs. Blogger vs. Loudblog vs. Movable Type vs. Pivot vs. b2evolution

General Features typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Version
4.1.1
N/A
0.6
4.21
1.40.6
2.4
Release Date
2007-05-07 (16 years ago)
N/A
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
2006-12-01 (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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
Gerrit van Aaken
Six Apart
Pivot Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
N/A
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Free
0 - Free
Development status
Mature
N/A
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Romanian
0
0
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
N/A
PHP
Perl 5
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
Operating System
All
N/A
all
Platform Independant
Any
Linux, Windows or other
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
N/A
Apache, IIS
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Apache, IIS or other
Root Access
Yes
N/A
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Ruby
N/A
Datastorage typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Text Files
No
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
Other
N/A
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
XML-based flat file storage
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Akismet Support
Yes
N/A
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Definable Questions
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
several specialized antispam plugins
User Access Features typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
ACL
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
N/A
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Other Authentication
N/A
Pluggable
OpenID plugin
Support typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
http://help.blogger.com/
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
Issue Tracker
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
Books
None
None
None
2-5
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Categorization
Multiple
None
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Blogger data API
none
XML-RPC and Atom
MetaWeblog, Moblog
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Post Editing typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Comment Features typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Client + Server
None
Client
Extended Features typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Workflow typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Content Approval
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Content Import
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
none
none
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
Content Export
RSS, Atom
HTML via FTP/SFTP
via RSS
Yes
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting typo Blogger Loudblog Movable Type Pivot b2evolution
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
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