Wordpress vs. Serendipity vs. WikyBlog vs. Movable Type vs. Pivot

General Features Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Version
2.0.7
1.1
1.5.4
4.21
1.40.6
Release Date
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2008-07-13 (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
Josh Schmidt
Six Apart
Pivot Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl 5
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Platform Independant
Any
Webserver
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL
Datastorage Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
XML-based flat file storage
Anti-Spam Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
User Access Features Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Other Authentication
None
Pluggable
Support Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
Books
5+
None
None
2-5
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
XML-RPC and Atom
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Post Editing Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comment Features Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
None
Extended Features Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Content Approval
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
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
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Trash
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wordpress Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
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 Serendipity WikyBlog Movable Type Pivot
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
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