Textpattern
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VisitTextpattern vs WordPress
What both publish
| Fact | Textpattern | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | The project describes Textpattern as suited to web designers, developers, publishers, bloggers, and corporate or personal blog authors. | WordPress describes itself as suitable for creators, small businesses, enterprises, first-time bloggers, and professional developers. |
| Extensibility | Textpattern can be extended with community plugins, and developers can create plugins in PHP. | Developers can extend or modify WordPress using themes and plugins, and the project says the software can be used for commercial work without licensing fees. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The official plugin directory lists integrations as a plugin category and shows 45 plugins in total. | Capterra lists integrations including Google Docs, Google Drive, PayPal, Slack, Trello, Dropbox, Salesforce Sales Cloud, and Microsoft 365. |
| Product | Textpattern is a free, open-source content management system for building websites. | WordPress is an open-source publishing platform and content management system for websites, blogs, portals, and applications. |
| Publishing | The CMS supports browser-based image and file organization, content categorization, comments, web feeds, visitor logs, and password-protected articles. | The platform supports drafts, scheduled posts, revisions, public or private content, and password-protected posts and pages. |
Textpattern plans
- Textpattern CMSFree
WordPress plans
- WordPress (self-hosted)Free
- WordPress softwareFree
Pick Textpattern if…
Textpattern suits self-hosting web designers, developers, publishers, bloggers, and authors who need structured publishing and multilingual content. It also fits users comfortable managing a PHP and MySQL server.
Pick WordPress if…
WordPress suits creators, bloggers, businesses, and developers who want a publishing platform they can extend with themes, plugins, or code. Self-hosted use requires your own hosting and domain.