02 MAR

WordPress.com now lets you import your Medium blog

Online publishing platform Medium started the year off with a pivot and layoffs. As the company tries to reinvent itself, Automattic, the creator of WordPress, is looking to capitalize with a new import tool for moving from Medium to WordPress.com.

The confusingly-named WordPress.com is a service that hosts WordPress blogs and is run separately from WordPress. Both are open-sourced.

WordPress powers 25 percent of the web, including VentureBeat. Medium saw solid growth last year and Automattic clearly sees it as a competitor. While Medium is unlikely to ever unseat all of WordPress, it has likely taken away customers from WordPress.com. Automattic is now trying to steal them back.

VentureBeat

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Martin is an enthusiastic programmer, a webdeveloper and a young entrepreneur. He is intereted into computers for a long time. In the age of 10 he has programmed his first website and since then he has been working on web technologies until now. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of BriefNews.eu and PCHealthBoost.info Online Magazines. His colleagues appreciate him as a passionate workhorse, a fan of new technologies, an eternal optimist and a dreamer, but especially the soul of the team for whom he can do anything in the world.