Quintype Outshines WordPress in the News and Media Publishing Industry in 2025

Digital-first publishing technology is revolutionizing the way content is created and distributed, prioritizing online platforms over traditional print media. The innovative approaches allow publishers to reach their target audience more effectively, increase engagement, and drive revenue growth.

News and media publishers have unique needs that require a CMS specifically designed for newsrooms. Quintype is a specialized AI-powered news CMS. The brand has partnered with more than 200 global news and media publishers. Let us understand the difference between a News Specific Publishing Content Management System and WordPress.

Digital-First Publishing Technology

A digital-first publishing technology platform, like Quintype, is designed to empower content creators to produce high-quality content, manage their audience, and deliver personalized experiences across various devices and platforms. By leveraging advanced tools and analytics, publishers can optimize their content strategy, ensuring they stay ahead in the competitive digital landscape.

Quintype News CMS can help you transform your entire operations, no matter your stage of digital adoption. It empowers publishers to create, generate, and distribute content seamlessly. Its AI-backed analytical capabilities, as well as easier and more convenient operations for omnichannel distribution, help you build traffic and nurture engaged audiences.

How Quintype Leads the Way in Digital Publishing?

With our innovative news CMS, we manage over a billion monthly pageviews for news publishers worldwide. Our experiences with them give us access to insights and competencies that make us specialists in this field.

Quintype CMS features, services, unique offerings, and teams’ 24/7 support reflect our depth of industry knowledge, which you can easily access as a Quintype subscriber. Conversely, using a generic CMS exposes you to the risk of following the crowd, which may include people or businesses with little in common with your unique needs. This approach could mean missing out on opportunities to optimize for your niche.

With Quintype, you start with the right system, tools, and approach. This enables you to propel your teams toward growth in the right direction from the outset. Your workflow management and audience engagement can seamlessly align, ensuring your teams are in sync from day one. This alignment helps you deliver high-quality experiences, enhancing user engagement and satisfaction.

Most importantly, you gain full visibility into your operations, enabling you to guide your team toward an AI-driven future confidently. Software with a source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance brings a variety of vulnerabilities that you, as a news/media publishing business, cannot afford since you are already operating in the limelight.

There is yet another challenge of working with a system that is so open it needs to work with everyone. Then comes the compatibility issues. Precisely because it must work with everyone, it is often incompatible with solutions designed to cater to a few.

At Quintype, our customizations are developed to meet news/media publishing users' unique needs. For subscribers with evolving needs, further customization is always on offer, along with complete tech support.

Note: At Quintype, we are HTTPS:// by default, while WP requires you to constantly upgrade security patches, requiring continuous monitoring and maintenance to ward off security risks

Plugins

A common challenge with WordPress adoption is identifying the right combination of plugins to extend the capabilities of its basic CMS. After that, you must manage and update them to keep everything running smoothly.

WordPress plugins are developed by independent vendors driven by market trends, which means their suitability might not always align with the specific needs of your business.

At Quintype, we build our plugins as part of the solution. Our software is made robust by including these software extensions as in-built features. We offer customization based on your business ' unique needs.

In contrast, within the WordPress marketplace, any business-critical extension you depend on is also available to your competitors. This becomes a key factor for tech leadership when assessing the total cost of ownership for your digital assets.

CDN-Ready

Quintype users never have to worry about the term “Content Delivery Network” (CDN). WordPress users, however, need to configure their own CDN using various available plugins.

For those unfamiliar, a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a system of strategically located servers worldwide that cache content closer to end users, enhancing load times and lowering bandwidth costs.

These last two factors are crucial for business growth as a news and media publisher, enabling high-quality experiences in digital content management. Faster load times can reduce bounce rates, boost audience engagement, and enhance overall performance.

As a specialized news CMS, we understand the importance of a CDN for our users. We know it is too critical to leave to third-party solutions. That’s why our platform comes with a built-in CDN, ready to use right out of the box.

Total Support, Performance, and Stability

Quintype gives you 24x7 enterprise support worldwide, with our tech staff available to help you troubleshoot at the click of a button. WP users must rely on their support systems for specific use cases.  

At Quintype, we have maintained a record 99.95% uptime throughout our journey, helping users operate their businesses with solid assurance of managing traffic volatility easily and comfortably.

WP users may have to contend with lower stability in conditions that require them to manage high traffic. 

Quintype also continues to enable high scores on Google page speeds, thanks to the combined power of all our features, while publishers using WP have seen page performance dwindle with high traffic. 

Image Editing and Optimization

With Bold, publishers can seamlessly use the image editor directly from the dashboard, minimizing the need to switch between tools and saving valuable time. Our goal is to keep everything you need in one place. While uploading, you can add captions, attribution, and file names, which will eventually help you for ranking.

After uploading an image, you can click anywhere on it to define a focus point. This ensures that when an image gets cropped to different sizes on varying platforms like mobile, Facebook cover, Facebook post, homepage, etc.

The set Focus Point of the image will always be in the viewport. This ensures that awkward image crops are a thing of the past. If you ever need to remove the Focus Point applied to an image, simply click the "Clear Focus Point" button.

Media Library

The Media Library is a central repository where users can deposit their image files. You can also embed videos from other sources into your stories. Image files uploaded here are available to all users who can access them.

When uploading a new image to the media library on BOLD, you can now extract the artist's information and the location where the image was taken. If an image lacks location data, you have the option to mark the area on the map as needed manually.

Another interesting feature is linking the user/author to an image. Clicking on a link to the user converts the text field to a dropdown where you can search for the user/author and save it to the link.

Now, access an image on the media library and find its usage in various stories or multiple times in a story—all listed under the usage of an image multiple times in a story. It lists 20 of the latest stories but loads more to find the first usage.

You can manage the importation of many image files by setting up an AWS S3 import into the BOLD Media Gallery. This is useful for publishers with many images to import into BOLD without logging and manually uploading the images.

At Quintype, we empower editors to handle all essential tasks directly from their dashboards, eliminating the need for external tools or additional expenses. Edited images can also be saved in the media gallery for future use, further streamlining the workflow.

Cardified Editor

A cardified editor is a content editing interface that organizes text, images, videos, and other media into individual "cards" rather than a traditional linear document or page. Each card represents a distinct content unit, making it easier for creators to manage, reorganize, and update content modularly.

Quintype CMS has a cardified editor. In a CMS context, a cardified editor often provides a more visual, intuitive way to work on complex content layouts, especially for non-technical users. This kind of editor is beneficial for media companies and platforms where different types of content must be mixed and matched, allowing for flexibility and easy updates.

WordPress has a Gutenberg editor. Although it uses blocks for different content types, it treats everything as part of a single linear flow. This can make it harder to visualize and manage complex, multimedia-rich articles at scale.

Gutenberg editor is primarily designed for web-based content but is not inherently structured for multi-channel publishing or managing content across various platforms.

SEO

BOLD CMS by Quintype includes several inbuilt SEO tools to help publishers optimize their content for search engines. These tools make SEO management more accessible and efficient, ensuring content ranks well without needing third-party plugins.

• Generate meta titles, meta descriptions, and social media descriptions with the inbuilt AI tool.

• SEO Score Checker to keep your SEO game strong.

• Schema markups to enhance search engine understanding.

• AMP Pages and AMP Stories for ultra-fast mobile experiences.

• Plagiarism Checker to ensure content originality.

• Built-in image processor to optimize images seamlessly.

• Elastic search for lightning-fast search results.

• News Sitemaps to keep your content fresh and indexed.

• Google Index Prompt for instant indexing requests for every story published.

• Encourage users to register to participate in the review process, such as flagging reviews.

WordPress largely depends on plugins for advanced SEO features. Some popular ones include Yoast SEO and Rank Math. Yoast SEO offers keyword optimization, meta title and meta description, readability analysis, schema markup, and more. However, it is a third-party plug-in, and you need to pay extra.

Rank Math is another popular SEO plugin that offers similar features to Yoast, including schema markup, advanced SEO analysis, and keyword optimization. It also comes with premium price.

Core Web Vitals (CWV)

Quintype offers a range of built-in features designed to improve Core Web Vitals (CWV), optimizing site performance without needing external plugins. It includes advanced caching mechanisms, server-side caching, and dynamic content caching to reduce page load times.

The built-in image processor automatically compresses images, delivering the right size based on the user's device. Lazy loading ensures that only visible content is loaded, improving page speed.

Additionally, CDN integration delivers content faster, minimizing latency and improving performance. BOLD CMS helps publishers maintain high CWV scores, ensuring that websites meet Google's speed and user interaction standards.

WordPress uses WP Rocket, a third-party premium plugin, to improve website performance. It focuses on Core Web Vitals (CWV), critical factors in Google's page ranking algorithms. However, the cost, compatibility, and integration difficulties are significant disadvantages if you opt for WP Rocket for CWV optimization.

Comparison to WordPress

While WordPress remains a popular content management system, Quintype offers a more comprehensive and innovative solution tailored for digital-first publishing. Quintype’s AI-powered content creation and distribution capabilities, as the other products from the brand such as subscription paywall management, audience engagement platform, no-code website builder, and high-quality experience delivery, set it apart from WordPress.

Unlike WordPress, which often requires multiple plugins to achieve similar functionality, Quintype provides an all-in-one platform with customizable website and mobile app builders, an integrated commenting system, and robust security features. This makes Quintype a more robust and scalable solution for publishers that successfully transitioned to digital-first publishing solutions.

Final Thoughts

At Quintype, we manage your entire tech infrastructure so you can focus on your core function of writing quality content. We ensure that your website passes Core Web Vitals and your news website is accessible to users all the time to offer an engaged and interactive audience.

With our no-code website builder, you can refresh your website layouts on the fly without any IT dependency.

We have seen downtime impact newsroom growth among WP users. You have to manage the hosting, maintenance, development, optimization, and CDN, which needs an in-house tech team or outsource to agencies to manage it for you. Check our success stories to know more.

Now, you must have thought about switching to Quintype. Let's take the first step with a personalized walkthrough of our platform.