{"id":96530,"date":"2017-02-15T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acqo.tkdemos.co\/blog\/?p=96530"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T13:52:57","slug":"hard-choices-wordpress-vs-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeskingdom.com\/blog\/hard-choices-wordpress-vs-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard choices: WordPress vs Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medium\u00a0is great. WordPress is great, too. But which is great for YOU?<\/p>\n

Let’s find out.<\/p>\n

Full disclosure: I work for a company that loves WordPress and makes money by selling themes for WordPress. Thankfully, they don\u2019t care if I trash talk my own company. They would rather I write what I believe in. Talk about having great bosses. (Me saying I have great bosses was written out of my own free will. Seriously.)<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s Medium?<\/h2>\n

As Wikipedia writes:<\/p>\n

Medium is an online publishing platform developed by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, and launched in August 2012. It is legally owned by A Medium Corporation. The platform is an example of evolved social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium and is regularly regarded as a blog host.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Williams created Medium from the ground up, with the idea of encouraging people\u00a0to create longer posts than the 140-character standard of Twitter. Now it’s a pretty good publishing<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go over the pros and cons of each platform.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you\u2019ll benefit from WordPress:<\/h2>\n

– It\u2019s a powerhouse.
\n– Plugins
\n– Themes
\n– Community of developers
\n– eCommerce or shops
\n– Free<\/p>\n

WordPress powers about a third of the entire internet. It\u2019s as popular as it gets. People like it because you can use it to do a bunch of stuff. You can run a blog, sure, but these days it\u2019s mostly used to build ENTIRE websites from scratch. It\u2019s that powerful.<\/p>\n

Plugins are a pretty big deal. They change how your WordPress site works by adding more functionality. And there\u2019s a lot of them. From anything to everything, there\u2019s probably a WordPress plugin for that.<\/p>\n

Premium WordPress themes<\/a> are a great way to change how your WordPress website looks. Think of it like changing protection masks for your phone. And thankfully there\u2019s hundreds of thousands of them available for free and for purchase.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a huge community of developers around WP. Basically, there\u2019s always a willing developer somewhere out there who will customise a WordPress website for you.<\/p>\n

Finally, if you want to start selling something without investing thousands of currencies into your inventory and what not, you can! WordPress has a lot of great ecommerce plugins that process payments for you, and a lot of shop themes that make your website look like an online shop!<\/p>\n

WordPress\u2019 code is open source and completely free. You can download it, change it, do what you want with it. But you still need to pay for hosting and a domain name.<\/p>\n

The downsides of WordPress:<\/h3>\n