Wordpress vs. Movable Type vs. b2evolution vs. ExpressionEngine vs. Serendipity

General Features Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Version
2.0.7
4.21
2.4
1.6
1.1
Release Date
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2004-04-22 (19 years ago)
2006-12-27 (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)
Author
WordPress Development Team
Six Apart
Francois Planque / evoTeam
EllisLab, Inc.
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Proprietary
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0 - Free
From 0$ - 249.95$
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Programming Language
PHP
Perl 5
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Platform Independant
Linux, Windows or other
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Anything with PHP
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Apache, IIS or other
IIS, Apache
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP must have XML support
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
None
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
(must overload DB abstraction class)
No
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
several specialized antispam plugins
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other Authentication
None
Pluggable
OpenID plugin
No
Support Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
5+
2-5
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
XML-RPC and Atom
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Undo
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
Client
None
None
Extended Features Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Workflow Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Yes
MySQL
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Wordpress Movable Type b2evolution ExpressionEngine Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
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