Meet The WordPresses
For the past few weeks I’ve been monitoring the blogging questions on LinkedIn out of curiosity. In that time I’ve seen questions that asked for advice on TypePad vs. WordPress that received confused answers. Which WordPress was the asker referring to? There are significant differences.
WordPress.COM and TypePad is a fair comparison because they are both hosted blogging systems. WordPress.ORG is the open source software that you can download and install on your servers. With the source code you can modify it to your heart’s desire and use plugins etc. So if you are referring to WordPress.ORG then Movable Type is a more relevant then TypePad.
While this confusion is easily cleared it is still lost on most people. The WordPresses share the same name, but in many, but not all, respects are different things.
This could have been easily avoided if WordPress.COM would have been named something else. After all, TypePad began as a fork of the MT code and still shares some parts today. Given the popularity of Movable Type then (and still now), Ben and Mena could have chosen to name that service Movable Type. I’m thankful they didn’t.
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