Does your blog still need WordPress?
If your WordPress site only publishes posts, Typoza does that job with nothing for you to update, and imports your WordPress export.
Free to start, no card. You can export your posts at any time, on every plan.
An evening on WordPress, before writing
- Updates waiting for the core, the theme and several plugins
- A plugin whose author stopped updating it
- A backup to take before you press Update
- The post you meant to write, still in drafts
An evening on Typoza
- No update to run
- No plugin to vet
- An export ready to download, on any plan
- The draft, open where you left it
WordPress can run almost any kind of site: a shop, a directory, a members' club, a blog. That range comes from plugins, and each plugin is software you install, update and answer for, alongside the core and the theme.
Typoza does one of those jobs. It publishes posts, and hosting, certificates, updates, the sitemap and the feeds come with the account. You add no plugins, so you have none to keep current.
A managed WordPress host can take the updates off your hands, for a fee. The plugins you choose, and the way they get along, remain your job.
Point by point
| What we compare | Typoza | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| Upkeep | None on your side. We handle hosting, updates and certificates. | The core, the theme and each plugin, unless you pay a managed host. |
| Getting started | An account and a workspace name, then the editor. | A host or a hosted plan, a theme, then plugins. |
| Adding features | What ships is what you get. No third-party plugins. | A plugin for almost anything, of every quality. |
| SEO | Meta tags, structured data, sitemap, feeds and a share image for each post, with nothing to set up. | Basics in the core, the rest from an SEO plugin you configure and update. |
| Speed | Cached pages, refreshed each time you publish. | Depends on the host, the theme and the plugins. |
| Cost | A free plan, then a flat monthly or yearly price per workspace. AI credit packs cost extra. | The software is free. Hosting, premium themes and plugins, and your time are not. |
| Writing together | Six roles and a review step before publishing. The free plan holds one person. | Built-in roles, which plugins can extend. |
| Leaving | Posts and pages in Markdown and JSON, on every plan. Image files are listed by address. | Its own XML export, or the whole database if you host it. |
What WordPress does better
Every comparison has this section, and it is never empty. We lose on these points:
- Range. A shop, bookings, forms, a members' area, several languages: WordPress has a plugin for each, and Typoza has none of them.
- Hosting freedom. The code is open, so you can run it where you like, change it and move it. Typoza runs only as our hosted service, and we cannot offer that.
- People who know it. Wherever you are, you can hire someone to work on a WordPress site, at every budget.
- Answers already written. Years of forum threads and tutorials, in many languages, cover the problems you are likely to meet.
- Selling. WooCommerce sells physical and digital products. Typoza has no shop.
Moving from WordPress
Typoza reads the file WordPress exports. In WordPress, open Tools, then Export, and choose All content. Drop the .xml on the import screen in your workspace settings: you see what the file holds before the import writes anything. Importing comes with the Collective and Studio plans.
What comes across
- Posts and pages, with their dates. Published posts stay published; drafts, private and scheduled posts arrive as drafts.
- Categories and tags, with the names you gave them.
- Each post's slug: /how-i-write stays /how-i-write. If a post already uses that address here, the import skips it instead of overwriting it.
- Pictures, featured images included. The importer downloads them from your old site into your library, where they count toward your storage.
What does not
- Comments. They stay on WordPress; on Typoza, readers comment from the day you import.
- Menus, widgets and the theme. Typoza lays out the site with its own.
- Custom post types, and the fields plugins added to them.
- User accounts. The import credits every post to you; you then invite your co-authors and reassign their posts to them.
- Dates and prefixes in permalinks. /2024/03/my-post or /blog/my-post becomes /my-post, and you add a redirect by hand for each old address worth keeping.
- Pictures the importer cannot fetch, because the old site is down or the file is gone. The post arrives without them, and the report gives the count.
So, which one?
Pick WordPress if…
Your site sells, takes bookings or manages members. You want to host it yourself, or someone already keeps it running for you.
Pick Typoza if…
You run a blog and want your evenings for writing rather than for updates. Your slugs survive the import, and the export stays open on every plan.
Questions people ask next
Is Typoza built on WordPress?
No. It shares no code with WordPress: no fork, no theme, no hosted install. That is why you have nothing to update, and why a WordPress plugin cannot run here.
Will my old links keep working?
Once your domain points at Typoza, an address made of the slug alone lands on the same post, because each post keeps its slug. Permalinks with a date or a prefix, such as /2024/03/my-post or /blog/my-post, need one redirect each, which you add by hand on the redirects screen. Start with the posts that still get visits.
Can I keep my domain name?
Yes, from the Collective plan. Point the domain at Typoza and we issue the certificate; your typoza.com subdomain then redirects to it. On the free plan, the site stays on that subdomain.
What replaces my SEO plugin?
Nothing to install. Each post gets meta tags, structured data, a place in the sitemap and the feeds, and a share image. You can set a post's search title, description and canonical address, or keep it out of search engines. You cannot edit the generated markup itself.
Can I go back to WordPress later?
Nothing on our side stops you. The owner or any admin can download the export, on any plan, without writing to us. WordPress's importer reads its own XML format rather than Markdown, so plan a conversion step.
The post you keep putting off
Write its first paragraph today. The post stays a draft until you publish it, and no reader sees it before then.
Free to start, no card. You can export your posts at any time, on every plan.