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Followers38.6K

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Tumblr vs WordPress: What are the differences?

Tumblr: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Tumblr is a feature rich and free blog hosting platform offering professional and fully customizable templates, bookmarklets, photos, mobile apps, and social network. The site now ranks as the 11th-largest in terms of traffic, according to Quantcast, with 170 million monthly visitors globally; 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.

Tumblr and WordPress are primarily classified as "Hosted Blogging Platforms" and "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools respectively.

"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider Tumblr 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.

According to the StackShare community, WordPress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5305 company stacks & 1389 developers stacks; compared to Tumblr, which is listed in 48 company stacks and 25 developer stacks.

Decisions about Tumblr and WordPress

Xander Groesbeek

Founder at Rate My Meeting · Mar 30, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 220.9K views

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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.

Dragos Balota

Jan 6, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 217K views

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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

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Pros of Tumblr

Pros of WordPress

39
Free
27
Easy setup
20
Modern Layout
14
Simple
8
Feature rich
3
Mobile App
2
No ads on blogs
2
Backed by Yahoo
1
Blogging simplified
1
Fully customizable HTML/CSS
1
Free personal domain mapping
1
Rich, flexible API for rich themes

415
Customizable
366
Easy to manage
354
Plugins & themes
258
Non-tech colleagues can update website content
247
Really powerful
145
Rapid website development
78
Best documentation
51
Codex
44
Product feature set
35
Custom/internal social network
18
Open source
8
Great for all types of websites
7
Huge install and user base
5
Perfect example of user collaboration
5
Open Source Community
5
Most websites make use of it
5
It's simple and easy to use by any novice
5
Best
5
I like it like I like a kick in the groin
4
Community
4
API-based CMS
3
Easy To use
2
<a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>

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Cons of Tumblr

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Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things
13
Plugins are of mixed quality
10
Not best backend UI
2
Complex Organization
1
Do not cover all the basics in the core
1
Great Security

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What is Tumblr?

Tumblr is a feature rich and free blog hosting platform offering professional and fully customizable templates, bookmarklets, photos, mobile apps, and social network. The site now ranks as the 11th-largest in terms of traffic, according to Quantcast, with 170 million monthly visitors globally.

What is WordPress?

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.

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What are some alternatives to Tumblr and WordPress?

Weebly

Weebly is an AJAX website creator that allows you to create pages with template skins and content widgets. Users can easily drag-and-drop content widgets like pictures, text, video and Google Maps in WYSIWYG-fashion.

Blogger

Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.

Medium

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.

Acquia

The leader in enterprise Drupal solutions providing a powerful cloud-native platform to build, operate, and optimize your digital experience. It provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for the open-source web content management platform Drupal.

Quora

It connects you to everything you want to know about. Quora aims to be the easiest place to write new content and share content from the web. We organize people and their interests so you can find, collect and share the information most valuable to you.

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