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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Movable Type

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMovable Type is a Perl-based content management system from Six Apart, featuring the capability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files and user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links.N/A

    WordPress

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AWordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.

    $3

    per month 6 GB storage

    Pricing
    Movable TypeWordPress
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Personal
    $4
    per month 6 GB storage
    Premium
    $8
    per month 13 GB storage
    Business
    $25
    per month 50 GB storage
    Commerce
    $45
    per month 50 GB storage
    Enterprise
    Contact for pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Movable TypeWordPress
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.
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    Community Pulse
    Movable TypeWordPress
    Considered Both Products
    Six Apart
    Chose Movable Type
    I believe that these two product are interchangeable for my purposes. I believe WordPress is slightly more complicated and prone to accidents to someone dealing solely with writing like myself; however, this seems to be the hot product right now, and Moveable Type may need to …
    Chose Movable Type
    WordPress and Movable Type are the go to CMS for a reason - they are by far the easiest to navigate, learn, and use for daily blogging/content management. And now with more plug-ins available, these CMS products are getting more responsive and are offering capabilities (even …
    Incentivized
    Chose Movable Type
    Movable Type is better than Wordpress because it generates static sites that cannot be broken by losing your database connection. The custom fields in MT are superior to Wordpress because of the way the fields are presented in the new content form. You need to get paid plugins …
    Chose Movable Type
    I'd say Wordpress is better because it's free, but MT is better than Drupal,Joombla and Concrete5.
    Chose Movable Type
    Compared to other content management systems that I have used, Movable Type is certainly a top-of-the-line platform. It is my primary choice when building large and intense user-based websites. If I'm building something simple, like a client portfolio website, I may stick with …
    Chose Movable Type
    Movable Type is outdated and out of style with current blog design trends.
    Automattic
    Chose WordPress
    There are plenty of other open-source content management systems out there.

    Why did we go with WordPress?
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Movable TypeWordPress
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Movable Type and WordPress
    Feature
    Movable Type
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    131 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions5.01 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Movable Type and WordPress
    Feature
    Movable Type
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    107 Ratings
    API6.01 Ratings9.097 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.481 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Movable Type and WordPress
    Feature
    Movable Type
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.3
    137 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor9.01 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.01 Ratings7.0123 Ratings
    Admin section8.01 Ratings8.7135 Ratings
    Page templates5.01 Ratings9.0132 Ratings
    Library of website themes3.01 Ratings6.5134 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.01 Ratings9.0133 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.01 Ratings8.7128 Ratings
    Form generator3.01 Ratings9.0106 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Movable Type and WordPress
    Feature
    Movable Type
    5.6
    1 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.6
    135 Ratings
    Content taxonomy9.01 Ratings8.9115 Ratings
    SEO support6.01 Ratings8.7121 Ratings
    Bulk management3.01 Ratings7.4102 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions3.01 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.01 Ratings9.2124 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Movable TypeWordPress
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.4
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.4
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)