Is Cardel an alternative to Leadpages or WordPress?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Leadpages or WordPress when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Leadpages and WordPress are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Leadpages or WordPress?

Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Leadpages or WordPress for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.

How much does Cardel cost compared with Leadpages and WordPress?

You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Leadpages and WordPress set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.

How do I switch from Leadpages or WordPress to Cardel?

Start with Build Your Site, set up your home, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.

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LeadpagesvsWordPress

Leadpages builds landing pages, pop-ups, and alert bars that convert, with A/B tests. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How Leadpages and WordPress compare

Leadpages does landing pages very well. Conversion-tested templates, pop-ups, alert bars, A/B testing, lead notifications, and Stripe checkouts help a marketer launch a campaign page in an afternoon and know how it is performing. It stays focused, and that focus is why people keep it.

WordPress powers a huge share of the web for good reason. This page compares WordPress.com hosted plans. You get the block editor, thousands of themes, comments and likes, Jetpack newsletters, and on higher plans the full plugin ecosystem and WooCommerce. Nothing else offers this much freedom to extend, and your content is exportable and yours.

Where they are different

Leadpages

Leadpages captures leads on a page.
Leadpages hands leads to your email tool.
Leadpages has no inbox or bookings.

WordPress

WordPress extends by plugin: a form plugin, a booking plugin, an email plugin, each with its own settings.
WordPress email is Jetpack newsletters or a plugin.
WordPress accessibility and SEO depend on your theme and plugins.

Choose Leadpages when your job is campaign pages and lead capture feeding another stack.

Choose WordPress when you want maximum control, plugins for anything, and the option to self-host.

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What's on Leadpages and WordPress

A check means that capability is available. Leadpages and WordPress are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

Workspace site
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included
Custom domain
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included
Theme and fonts
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included

Public content

Blog
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included
Showcase pages
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included
Shop pages
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included
Marketing emails
Leadpages: Not included
WordPress: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included

Team

Admin users
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included
AI Assistant
Leadpages: Included
WordPress: Included

Feature comparison for Leadpages and WordPress
Feature	Leadpages	WordPress
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Included
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Leadpages or WordPress, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Leadpages or WordPress may add or remove features that are not shown here.