The Day I Moved My Domain From WordPress to Medium (Here’re the 3 Reasons Why)

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Today (January 11, 2024), I set the custom domain on Medium.

When I set up my personal Blog (Mazlan Abbas — http://mazlanabbas.com), I bought the domain name and hosted it on the WordPress site.

I started to blog a couple of years back. Topics that covered my personal and career life, entrepreneurship, thought leadership, and many more.

In the case of Medium, I started much earlier (July 2016). However, I am less active in the early days.

However, I decided to join the Medium Partner at the end of Sept. 2023, and that’s when I became more active.

There are three main reasons why I migrated my Domain (http://mazlanabbas.com) to be hosted at Medium:

I don’t think I can handle multiple blogs. It’s too much for me to handle. Furthermore, the contents of my blog are the same as those of Medium.
WordPress has a mobile app called “Jetpack,” which makes it easier to view our stats and engage with other WordPress users. However, I don’t get much engagement with the other bloggers there. Not sure what happened, but I failed to connect with them. Unlike WordPress, the community at Medium is so much closer and helpful in leaving comments and encouragement.
It’s not easy to build a Blog using WordPress. There are so many tools to use. However, Medium is so “clean’ and easy to use. No hassle or frills. It’s purely for writers. I can write much easier at Medium using desktop and mobile app versions.

There are many more reasons that I might be able to share later, which most of the users have claimed — for example, the Domain Authority (DA) of Medium is much higher and thus makes our articles higher in Google search. I had to see and experience this before I could comment further.

Another reason would be that WordPress has so many Plug-ins, which some must purchase while others are free. Thus, maintaining the theme and plug-ins can be tiring and costly after a while.