Material Design for vs TailPress – Tailwind — WordPress

Material Design for WordPress vs TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Material Design for WordPress

4.1·8reviews·700+installs

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1. Listing metadata

Field-level data

	Material Design for WordPress	TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress
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Description	1324 / 5000 chars26% used	2288 / 5000 chars46% used
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Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	XWP	Greg
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Material Design for WordPress

TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress

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Feature comparison between Material Design for WordPress and TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress
Metric	Material Design for WordPress	TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress
Rating	4.1 ★	★ 5.0 ★
Total reviews	8	★ 13
Active installs	700+	500+
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3. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Material Design for WordPress

The official Material Design plugin for WordPress. Customize your site’s navigation, colors, typography, and shapes, use Material Components, and choose from over 1,000 Google Fonts and Material Design icons. From the team behind Google’s open-source design system. It’s easy to get up and running with Material Design for WordPress: Install Material Theme & examples The theme applies Material Design principles and Material Theming to your site, so you can customize its style. Example layouts include pages for home, about, projects, blog, and contact. Customize your Theme Set up and preview your global theme styles within the customizer. Choose colors, typography, shapes, and icons to express your unique style. Build with Material Blocks Add Material Components like buttons and cards, and create layouts for things like image-heavy pages or styled contact forms. Customize the look of your blocks by adjusting global theme styles, or setting the style of a single component in the block editor. Apply your Theme Implement your colors, shapes, and typography for built-in WordPress elements like your site’s header and footer. Contributors Material Design is a design system created by Google and backed by open-source code that helps teams build high-quality digital experiences. Google Material Design XWP

Top keywords

material11×5.42%
design8×3.94%
material design6×2.96%
theme6×2.96%
customize4×1.97%
google4×1.97%
colors3×1.48%
shapes3×1.48%
site3×1.48%
style3×1.48%
typography3×1.48%
wordpress3×1.48%

TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress

Tailwind CSS is a great companion to building block based sites in WordPress. Unfortunately, it’s been pretty complicated to add Tailwind CSS to WordPress since it needs to be compiled with Node.js in order to be production ready. This plugin takes care of that by adding Tailwind CSS to WordPress in one easy step (activate the plugin) and at the same time takes care of performance and caching so your site remains fast and production ready! Who It’s For This is primarily for developers and users that are familiar with Tailwind CSS and comfortable styling their site using their utility class framework. It’s also for those who have struggled to add Tailwind to their workflow without having to constantly compile their CSS every time the classes in their page content changes. How it Works Extracts classes from pages and compiles them server-side into Tailwind CSS Caches the dynamically generated CSS to avoid performance issues on the frontend of your production site. Are you affiliated with tailpress.io the theme? No, we are not! Unfortunately the same name was used for both out of coincidence, but we are not affiliated and are two different solutions. Tailpress.io is a great starting point for developing custom themes with deep integration of Tailwind. I would recommend it for any developer that wants to build a custom theme that depends heavily on Tailwind. Tailpress, this plugin, adds Tailwind support to any project as an add-on. It can be used as much or as little as you need, added to custom themes or pre-existing ones. Can this be used in production? Yes! Although the styles in the backend get generated on the fly, the CSS on the frontend gets cached for every page. Changing any classes on the page will bust the cache automatically so it’ll still stay up to date with any changes. Can this be used outside the block editor? Yes! This will work anywhere on the backend or front end of your site that uses classes to style things. Known Issues Device Preview Mode in Block Editor The non-desktop preview modes in the block editor utilize an iframe and don’t load assets properly. Therefore your Tailwind styles won’t be visible here. Page Caching If you have any page caching on your site, you’ll have to clear your cache for the best experience.

Top keywords

tailwind10×2.51%
css8×2.01%
page5×1.26%

Frequently asked

Common questions about this comparison

Which has better reviews, Material Design for WordPress or TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress has the higher average rating (5.0★ from 13 reviews) compared to Material Design for WordPress (4.1★ from 8 reviews). Both are tracked daily by AppRanks, so the figures here update each refresh cycle.

Should I choose Material Design for WordPress or TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress holds the higher average rating (5.0★ vs 4.1★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Material Design for WordPress or TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

Both apps are one-click installs from the WordPress Plugin Directory. TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress has the deeper published review base (13 vs 8), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Material Design for WordPress typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (8 reviews). TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (13 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

Can I migrate data between Material Design for WordPress and TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

Migration support varies by app and category. Material Design for WordPress and TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Material Design for WordPress" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

Material Design for WordPress vs TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress

Material Design for WordPress

1. Listing metadata

2. Categories & rankings

TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress

At a glance

AppRanks verdict

3. App details

Frequently asked

Which has better reviews, Material Design for WordPress or TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

Should I choose Material Design for WordPress or TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

Which is faster to set up, Material Design for WordPress or TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Can I migrate data between Material Design for WordPress and TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress?

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