Wordpress vs. Serendipity vs. b2evolution vs. Ignition vs. Movable Type

General Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Version
2.0.7
1.1
2.4
1.0
4.21
Release Date
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2013-09-16 (10 years ago)
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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
WordPress Development Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Jacob Roeland
Six Apart
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GNU GPL v3
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0 - Free
Free
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl 5
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows or other
Tested in Windows and Linux
Platform Independant
Webserver
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS or other
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
(must overload DB abstraction class)
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
Anti-Spam Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
several specialized antispam plugins
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
User Access Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Other Authentication
None
OpenID plugin
Pluggable
Support Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
Books
5+
None
None
2-5
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
XML-RPC and Atom
Post Editing Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Undo
No
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
None
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Client + Server
Extended Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Workflow Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Content Approval
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
Yes
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syndication Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
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
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution Ignition Movable Type
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
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