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Medium vs WordPress: What are the differences?
Medium: The perfect place to read and write. Medium is a different kind of place on the internet. A place where the measure of success isn’t views, but viewpoints. Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications. A place where conversation pushes ideas forward; WordPress: A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Medium can be classified as a tool in the "Hosted Blogging Platforms" category, while WordPress is grouped under "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS".
Some of the features offered by Medium are:
- Embedding videos, Tweets, Vines, etc.
- Word Counter
- Drafts
On the other hand, WordPress provides the following key features:
- Flexibility
- Publishing Tools
- User Management
"Beautiful UI" is the primary reason why developers consider Medium over the competitors, whereas "Customizable" was stated as the key factor in picking WordPress.
WordPress is an open source tool with 12.6K GitHub stars and 7.69K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WordPress's open source repository on GitHub.
Stack Exchange, ebay, and LinkedIn are some of the popular companies that use WordPress, whereas Medium is used by Lyft, Twitch, and Edify. WordPress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5305 company stacks & 1389 developers stacks; compared to Medium, which is listed in 73 company stacks and 75 developer stacks.
So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.
10 Years ago I have started to check more about the online sphere and I have decided to make a website. There were a few CMS available at that time like WordPress or Joomla that you can use to have your website. At that point, I have decided to use WordPress as it was the easiest and I am glad I have made a good decision. Now WordPress is the most used CMS. Later I have created also a site about WordPress: https://www.wpdoze.com
Pros of Medium
- Beautiful UI61
- Typography34
- Network effect15
- Embedding videos, tweets, vines12
- Great mobile app12
- Simple, yet elegant and appealing UX11
- Notes10
- Word counter9
- Easy to gain traction7
- Idealized media consumption4
- Inline Comments & Discussions3
- Beautiful design. great content, excellent experience3
- Version history2
- Nice UI and UX2
- Embed medium2
- Recommendations2
- Daily Digest1
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable416
- Easy to manage367
- Plugins & themes354
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content259
- Really powerful247
- Rapid website development145
- Best documentation78
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source18
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base7
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice5
- Perfect example of user collaboration5
- Open Source Community5
- Most websites make use of it5
- Best5
- API-based CMS4
- Community4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
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Cons of Medium
Cons of WordPress
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things13
- Plugins are of mixed quality13
- Not best backend UI10
- Complex Organization2
- Do not cover all the basics in the core1
- Great Security1
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