Is Cardel an alternative to Skool 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 Skool or WordPress when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Skool and WordPress are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Skool or WordPress?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Skool and WordPress?

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

How do I switch from Skool 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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SkoolvsWordPress

Skool is a focused on a community, courses, and events. WordPress.com hosts the world's most used publishing software with themes, plugins, and commerce plans.

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How Skool and WordPress compare

Skool does one thing with unusual discipline: a paid community with a feed, a classroom, a calendar, and gamification that keeps members coming back. The pricing is plain, the app is quick, and Discovery can send you members you did not have to find yourself. If your work is a group people join and show up to every week, Skool is shaped for that.

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

Choose Skool when the membership is the product, and a feed, courses, and leaderboards are how you deliver it.

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

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What's on Skool and WordPress

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Skool: Not included
WordPress: Included
Custom domain
Skool: Not included
WordPress: Included
Theme and fonts
Skool: Not included
WordPress: Included

Public content

Blog
Skool: Not included
WordPress: Included
Reader engagement
Skool: Included
WordPress: Included
Shop pages
Skool: Not included
WordPress: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Skool: Not included
WordPress: Included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Built-in chat
Skool: Included
WordPress: Not included

Team

Admin users
Skool: Included
WordPress: Included
Per-admin permissions
Skool: Included
WordPress: Included

Feature comparison for Skool and WordPress
Feature	Skool	WordPress
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Theme and fonts	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Reader engagement	Included	Included
Shop pages	Not included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Not included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Not included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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