WordPress vs Tumblr

WordPress can be understood as a content management system which was built by Matt Mullenweg in 2003. It is built using the PHP programming language. The development credit for this platform goes to WordPress Foundation. It is a free and open-source platform which was initially released in May 2003 and a stable version was released in 2022. It has a special feature of customizable plugins for building web applications. It uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript for building interactive web applications. It uses MySQL as its database for storing data.

Tumblr can be understood as a social networking platform made for posting micro-blogs. It was developed by David Karp in 2007. Currently, it is owned by Yahoo and Automattic. It helps the users to post blogs with all the multimedia facilities, users can easily customize the blog apart from the themes available.

Below is a table of differentiation between WordPress and Tumblr:

	WordPress	Tumblr
1.	It is a content management platform for building websites and web applications.	It is a microblogging platform for posting blogs.
2.	The content you posted is totally yours and no one can remove it without your permission.	Content is owned by Tumblr so the decision is made by the Tumblr organization.
3.	It is owned by WordPress Foundation.	Tumblr was purchased by Yahoo and Automattic so they are owners.
4.	Technical knowledge is required for customizing themes.	Customization is easy and does not require technical skills.
5.	It is more popular for making websites and web applications.	It is used mainly for blogging by users.
6.	It is an open-source platform.	It is a proprietary platform.
7.	It is free to use, customers need to pay for domain and hosting services.	It is totally free, other than buying custom domains according to business needs.
8.	It does not have any functionality of following others.	Bloggers can follow one another.