Tistory vs WordPress
Tistory
tistory.com
WordPress
wordpress.orgSide by side
| Figure | Tistory | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Blogging Platforms | 8.8 (#15) | 9.1 (#5) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Plugins | Tistory says members can use plugins to add functions beyond the blog’s built-in features. | The WordPress.org plugin directory lists more than 76,000 free plugins. |
| Product | Tistory is a creator platform for making blogs, portfolios, and websites. | WordPress is an open-source publishing platform and content management system for websites, blogs, portals, and applications. |
| Publishing | Members can create blogs, publish content, read public posts, and comment on other members’ content. | The platform supports drafts, scheduled posts, revisions, public or private content, and password-protected posts and pages. |
| Support | Daum Customer Center offers web inquiries and a KakaoTalk chatbot available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; 상담톡 is listed for weekdays 10:00–18:30. | WordPress.org provides documentation and community support forums where users can ask questions. |
| Themes | Users can customize their sites with skins; Tistory’s skin guide explains how skin variables are used to apply Tistory data to a design. | The WordPress.org theme directory lists more than 15,000 free themes. |
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In their own words
Tistory
Tistory is a platform for creating blogs, portfolios, and websites. Members can publish posts, read public posts, and comment on other members’ content. Blogs can use Tistory or user-created skins, and skins apply Tistory data to a design; users can also customize their sites with custom code and connect a custom domain. Posting can be scheduled, and blog analytics are available. Team blogs support owner, administrator, editor, and author roles, while plugins can add functions beyond built-in features. The service runs on web, iOS, and Android, and sign-in uses a Kakao account. The Android app supports writing and editing posts with photos and videos, spell check, feed subscriptions, and search across blogs and posts; it requires Android 8.0 or later. Tistory is free, with no usage limits stated on the listed pages. Direct video uploads ended on February 23, 2026, so users need to embed videos hosted elsewhere, such as YouTube. Tistory may place ads. New Kakao AdFit connections are closed, while Google AdSense, Dable, and Tenping remain available for connection.
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.