Bold CMS vs WordPress: A Comparison
Searching for a WordPress alternative? Bold CMS is a unique digital publishing solution that empowers growing media organizations, allowing them to create, distribute and monetize content more effectively than ever.
Improving your content management system is often a necessary change when scaling your publishing business to a larger audience. This often means that changing your CMS completely is the most suitable option. We’ve been asked about how Bold’s CMS and monetization solutions do when compared to WordPress.
Here’s a quick guide to give you a brief overview comparison of key features such as pricing, performance, unique features and even migration!
A quick comparison guide on Bold CMS & WordPress
| Features | Bold | WordPress |
| Custom editorial workflow | Yes | No, third-party plugin required |
| Content structure | Cardified | Blocks |
| Mobile-responsive back-end CMS | Yes | No |
| Granular access control | Yes | No, third-party integration required |
| Paywall support | Yes, native integration with Accesstype | No, third-party integration required |
| Native SEO | Yes | No, third-party integration required |
| Hosting | Hosting with DDoS protection, CDN and caching with 99.5% uptime guarantee. | Self Hosted |
| Built-in content categorisation | Card attributes, story attributes, tags, sections, collections and entities | There are two ways to create categories-using short text fields or using reference fields to other entries. |
| Front-end | Ahead with Page builder to manage branding and layouts at no additional costs. Built-in PWA with add on native mobile apps. | Multiple theme builders bundled with different themes that have additional licensing fees. Custom development required for native mobile apps |
Why should you choose Bold over WordPress?
Although WordPress is a hugely popular solution used by many websites, the CMS struggles when scaling with publisher growth. Many of our publishers who’ve previously used WordPress prior to moving to Bold have praised Bold’s ability to support multiple concurrent users, faster searching, superior front-end support for multiple screens and screenless devices.
A few additional comparisons for Bold vs WordPress include:
- Content across any devices – PWA, Mobile App, Smart speakers, and more
- Optimization for search engines, including sitemaps, schema, canonicals, AMP and social tags.
- Integration with any 3rd party tool tailored directly for your business needs, including Copyscape, push notifications, email subscriptions, and more.
- Story templates and multiple types of stories, including videos, photos and live blogging
- Built-in analytics enabling analysis of stories, authors and topic performance
When it comes to pricing, although WordPress is initially free, you end up paying third-party agencies to assist with website development. In addition to a third-party plugin licensing, hosting and a plethora of other management costs, it ends up adding up to quite a significant amount.
Additional key similarities between Bold CMS vs WordPress VIP include:
- Security
- API-driven
- Automatically scaling infrastructure
- Automated maintenance updates and security improvement patches
Get in touch and experience the seamless content creation process and simplified website management. Contact us today.
