Known vs WordPress
Known
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WordPress
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| Figure | Known | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 2 |
| Spec score · Blogging Platforms | 8.3 (#50) | 9.1 (#5) |
| Audience | Known says its community includes broadcasters, universities, individual creators, technical early adopters, educators, and learners. | WordPress describes itself as suitable for creators, small businesses, enterprises, first-time bloggers, and professional developers. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The hosted group product lists connections to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Soundcloud, LinkedIn, and webhooks. | Capterra lists integrations including Google Docs, Google Drive, PayPal, Slack, Trello, Dropbox, Salesforce Sales Cloud, and Microsoft 365. |
| Publishing | The product supports photos, notes, stories, songs, hashtags, and an HTML or rich-text editor. | The platform supports drafts, scheduled posts, revisions, public or private content, and password-protected posts and pages. |
| Self-hosting | Known can be installed on a web server; its documentation lists PHP 8.1 or above and MySQL, MariaDB, or MongoDB requirements. | The download page directs users who have their own hosting and domain to download and install WordPress themselves. |
| Support | Known's guides direct self-hosted users to the developer mailing list, GitHub comments, or the #knownchat IRC channel. | WordPress.org provides documentation and community support forums where users can ask questions. |
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In their own words
WordPress
WordPress is a free, open-source publishing platform and content management system for websites, blogs, portals, and applications. You can build pages with blocks and themes, then customize them without code. Plugins add capabilities including stores, analytics, newsletters, social integrations, forms, and spam protection. Publishing controls cover drafts, scheduled posts, revisions, public or private material, and password-protected posts and pages. WordPress also provides media uploading and editing, with roles for administrators, editors, authors, contributors, and subscribers. Developers can create plugins, themes, custom content types, and integrations through the REST API. The software is available in more than 70 languages and licensed under GPLv2-or-later, permitting use, modification, and redistribution, including commercial projects, without licensing fees. You can install it on your own hosting and domain or use a hosting provider. Recommended requirements include PHP 8.3 or later, MariaDB 10.11 or later or MySQL 8.0 or later, and HTTPS.