Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.
As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."
There is no way to track traffic sources or get any statistics about your audience of any kind. Medium also doesn't encourage readers to follow a writer.
Wordpress by default allows commenting on pages, any page. Even if you turn commenting off for a page bots can still access the commenting endpoint; even if you use a 3rd party commenting system such as Disqus. Wordpress comes with an anti-spam filter called Askimet which does a pretty good job but not perfect.
If you don't like a part of a template, such as its position or if it's shown or not, the only way to change it is to change the template file by hand.
True, there may be some plugin for every functionality you require. However if you take a more detailed look at those plugins they are either outdated, made by some hobby programmer (i.e. no in-depth testing, no security audits, no code reviews, hacky, unmaintainable) in their spare time (and don't get me wrong: I adore everyone giving something to the community; but many of these plugins are just unusable for serious business), incomplete (regarding multi-language capability, an author of a famous Wordpress form builder plugin responded something like: "Well, maybe sometime"; seriously, man?), insecure (e.g. recently there was a serious flaw as a buggy plugin is used by many themes) or often need much hacking to finally get the correct functionality that YOU need currently.
The templating system is highly restrictive. All your body content for a page (technically a post) comes out from one variable, and is spat directly onto the page. If you want to pull that content out into chunks? Tough shit. You have to use plugins to make it work correctly.
Partly because it is one of the most popular CMSs there are people actively finding security holes. Even though these holes are plugged by Wordpress regularly if you do not update your system regularly you may end up being hacked. There is also no easy way to rename access to the admin area so you will get bots trying to hack your site regularly.
WordPress offers free hosting under a wordpress.com subdomain. This option eliminates the need for setting up the CMS yourself and is reasonably secure, as WP uses multiple servers to back your site up. Additionally, for a fee, you can even set up your own custom domain name.
The default WordPress SEO setup will work great for most people starting out, but you can further tweak different aspects of WordPress to achieve better search ranking results by installing plugins, following tutorials or experimenting yourself.
According to some statistics, WP powers a fifth of the Internet. It means that there are resources for everything. There's excellent community support and a plethora of plugins and customization options.
You can compose a post and send it by email to post@posthaven.com along with any attachments such as photos, music, video, and docs you need added to the post and it will get posted to your blog.
Tumblr supports responsive design for the website as it will be fitted with the same theme based on which device the user is using to view the website. It can also vary by theme with responsive design availability.
Tumblr allow users to customize their website with many built-in themes. In addition to theme selection, user can also further customize their website either through a customization editor wizard or through a HTML and CSS editor for advanced users.
Websites and blogs can have static pages alongside their index page. Such as About, Contact or even dedicated pages and links to display a page with selected tags or categories.
You don't need to use external commenting widgets on your site, all the comments and discussions happening on the website are stored under your account and can be easily managed and moderated.
GoNevis Dash is an open source project/product that you can participate directly to improve, either by submitting code, reporting bugs, reviewing patches, etc...
Users can connect their own domain to their website. For example, jungle.gonevis.com => jungle.com or even blog.jungle.com. There's no limit on how many custom domains users can set on their website.
You can bring your whole team to each website and give them permissions such as Author, Admin, Owner, etc. and manage your entire website with your team.
When someone shares content from your website, related information such as images, title, description and other data that will be recognized by social media.