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Wix vs WordPress  if you are wanting to have a web site developed there are somethings you should know about the most popular CMS ( Content Management Systems). The last thing you want to do is commit a lot of time and energy to building a website, then finding out that you have to re-build it again because you picked the wrong website builder.

 

Both Wix and WordPress are great website builders.

Each has its own pros and cons and being able to identify these pros and cons is important in understanding which one of them will be better for you.

 

 Flexibility WordPress is an open source platform, this means that their codes are open to everybody to use and modify. Any programmers / coders can use WordPress to create their own themes or plugins for others to download for free, or to be purchased for a fee.

 

 

This is exactly one of the main reasons why the WordPress community has expanded to more than 65 million websites since the end of 2011, and its growth is still ongoing. At the time of this review, there are over 26,000 WordPress plugins that are downloaded more than 490 million times – this shows you how extensive the WordPress community is.

 

But before you conclude that WordPress is better, the fact that WordPress is so large is also a potential problem. You can imagine, anyone with a little bit of coding knowledge can build a theme or plugin for WordPress – which is dangerous.

 

The quality of these tools could be fantastic, or could be junk. Based on our experiences, there are most likely way more junk than fantastic plugins.

 

As you can imagine, since the WordPress community is so large it’s almost impossible to have good quality control. So from this perspective, while WordPress gives you tons of flexibility with tools, a lot of them are mediocre or worst. This is not to say there aren’t any good WordPress plugins available – in fact there are lots, but you will need to sift through a lot of them to see which ones are good. 

 

Wix is not an open source platform so their codes are not available for people to modify. This means that only their private development team can produce website building tools – this results in Wix’s tools being fully integrated into their website builder, and will have a much lower chance of being “buggy”.

 

Wix is also expanding their Apps Market so you can add a lot more functions to a Wix website (these Apps are fully integrated so you don’t have to worry about installation –

 

If you were to experience technical issues with Wix’s tools, they will fix it whereas with WordPress, a lot of plugin developers may or may not help you (unless you pay to purchase their plugins).

 

The primary concern with WordPress is that a lot of tools / plugins may not be built by good developers. Using a poorly built plugin may slow down your website performance, cause conflicts or worst, crash your website. When this does happen, you won’t have a central location to go look for help and the plugin developer may not help you (especially if the plugin was for free).

 

With Wix, everything is tested and controlled by their private development team to ensure quality, and they also have good, centralized support functions.

 

Ease of Use When it comes to Wix vs WordPress in terms of ease of use, the learning curve for WordPress is definitely a lot steeper. As mentioned above, a lot of people choose WordPress for its flexibility, but with this flexibility comes complexity. If you know how to modify codes.

 

You can potentially do a lot of customizations with WordPress that you can’t do with Wix. But are you a skilled developer? If not, you can still customize WordPress but you will need to hire a skilled WordPress developer which can cost quite a bit.

 

While there are customization limits to using Wix, Wix is designed and built specifically use with ease. You can definitely learn how to use Wix a lot faster.

 

As for WordPress, the downside is that whatever content you insert into the editor, you won’t see what it looks like “live” until you preview or publish the page. With Wix, you just drag and drop any content into the screen, and you don’t need to know how to code or need any special external tools to enable you to do this.

 

Whereas for WordPress, if you want to make what seems to be quick adjustments such as the spacing of where the images or slideshows are positioned, this can get tricky and technical. You’ll need to modify codes to do this or spend time looking and testing for the right plugin to help you do what seems to be a simple task. In addition, you won’t know if the plugin you found would cause conflicts with your website. SUMMARY Wix makes it easy for developers to build websites quickly and professionally.

 

WordPress, you’ll need to be prepared to spend a lot of time to learn how to use it. WordPress is indeed a powerful platform, but it comes with complexity. Of course you can always hire developers to help you, but this takes time to hire and manage the person, and will cost money. If this seems like too much of a burden.

 

Support

 

If we were to describe WordPress’ support, the words would be “information overload”. WordPress has an enormous community of users and an overwhelming amount of tutorials , so it’s a challenge to figure out which help articles are good, and which are bad. One option is to hire a WordPress developer to help you set up, configure or modify your website but this gets expensive very quickly (even if you were to outsource this work to developing countries where prices are cheaper).

 

With Wix Support , they have a focused support team to help their users troubleshoot. They’ve also created a lot of help articles and videos, and forums to support you to build your website. You can also get one-on-one  phone support.

 

 

Our Summary

 

Wix- easier to updated less maintenance and lower cost over the long term.

1 host 1 cms all in one.

 

WordPress - more flexibility, but more maintenance, higher learning curve

you willl need seperate 3rd party hosting. higher cost over the long term.