Posterous vs. Tumblr vs. WordPress Comparison Chart
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I am a big big fan of WordPress but I am working on a project where I want to set up a blog quickly and add lots of posts quickly. I will work on a more detailed blog set up a later. So the two options I am looking at are Posterous and Tumblr – each has some great features for quickly adding posts here is a comparison of some of the features I think are useful.
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Mashable wrote a nice comparison of Posterous and Tumblr in June 2009 but didn’t list out some of the specific features I was interested in. After looking at both Tumblr and Posterous – I decided to add WordPress.com to the comparison.
| platform | Posterous | Tumblr | WordPress.com |
| Comments | comments are powered by Posterous. Commentors can login with Facebook or Twitter. | Some tumblr themes let you display comment from Disqus. Disqus lets commentors login with Facebook or Twitter. | Currently no option for a commentator to login with Facebook or Twitter. |
| Private Posts | Posts can be marked as private. “Private posts will not show up on your Posterous page or RSS feed. You can share these posts with a select group of people by sending them the direct url.” More info about private posts on the Posterous Blog. | Posts can be marked as private. | Posts can be private or password protected. From the WordPress.com support page “Protected – The post is protected with a password you set. Any user that has the password can view a protected post. Private – Posts are only visible to blog Editors and Administrators. Private posts are not visible in Blog Surfer, feeds, or in any search. A post can be private without being password protected.” |
| Ability to transfer blog to WordPress? | Not yet. See this thread for some info – one person is working on an importer for WordPress.com | There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to move Disqus comments on Tumblr to WordPress. | Yes – can be exported to a wordpress.org (self-hosted) blog anytime. |
| Quick post bookmarklet? | Posterous has a bookmarklet – more info here. | Tumblr offers a bookmarklet for browser posting. | Press This bookmarklet opens a pop-up window to edit and publish a new post. “Press This” is available under the Tools section of the menu. |
| Post by email? | Each blog has a quick email address to publish posts. | Can send multiple formats – text, mp3, photos and more to email address for posting by email. | Post by email is available – create a secret email address. |
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I like the features of both Tumblr and Posterous but I decided to use WordPress.comso that I would know I would be able to move my entire project to a self hosted WordPress blog if I wanted to in the future. I did want to use Disqus for comments but I know that I can import my WordPress comments into Disqus in the future. Continue Reading »