WordPress is an open source platform that drives 30% of Internet. It has a massive community of supporters, it can be made to serve a wide variety of purposes from simple brochure sites to complex e-commerce sites.
Wix is a quick fix. It may get you off the ground quickly, but it's filled with limitations over the long haul. Wix is a proprietary software that limits your ability to move the site and do a wide variety of things.
All things being equal, WordPress is hands down the better overall option.
Hope that helps!
Business from Centennial, CO
Answered on Apr 13th, 2020
Oooh, that's tough.
In my experience, answering that question usually comes by answering questions like this.
Who’s going to be designing it?
Who's going to be building it?
Who’s going to be making changes, updates, additions, and maintaining it?
What’s the purpose or goal of the site?
What’s my budget for building the site?
What’s my timeline for building the site?
Happy to chat if you need some help figuring out which platform is right for your business. Just send me an email and I'll do my absolute best to offer as much free help and guidance as possible.
I use both. For myself and tech savvy clients I use Wordpress. For my less technical clients who want to manage a lot of their own content I set their site up in Wix. Wordpress is great but it's not as easy to work in as it seems.
Hello Benjamin, I am sure one can build a good looking Website on any of those platforms. However, good looking is not enough; a website should provide a few features that help the business with building channels to attract visitors and prospects. For example, it should provide custom information for search engines and social media sharing for each single page (that is code under the hood!). It should be easy for the business to place their own contents on the Website, and provide functions for visitors to interact (like e.g. newsletter signup, web form, online store, etc.). Further it may provide access to information for third party services that can be used to automate certain tasks, e.g. automatically sending out newsletters containing newly published articles. We have solved all these things for our customers and use the content management system Joomla! together with custom programmed templates as our platform of choice.
Wordpress! I'm always converting over Wix sites for clients eventually as they have less features and are not customizable. But for a start-up, a wix site, or any other web builder is a good way to get started and play around with your content and messaging. This makes the second site easier and better.
I'm biased because I've been working with WordPress since version 2, but I'd steer clear of Wix as a platform. It's not only feature-limited, but like a number of other folks have said here, limits your ability to quickly move away from their platform. WordPress gives you far better SEO capabilities, and doesn't restrict you from making changes as needed. Choose your host wisely though — WordPress is arguably the most popular content management system in the world, and therefore a massive hack target. Your host should be able to do the necessary TLC on a regular basis with no involvement from you. Also choose your theme with care — avoid free themes, and themes from Themeforest and the like that load a ton of garbage plugins. My advice would be to work with a developer that knows what they are doing — ask to see previous work and talk to references before you hire.
Oh, and unrelated but important — never, ever give your web host control over your domain name! Many web hosts offer "free" domain registration and stuff like that, but do NOT fall for it! If you ever need to move away from them, unscrupulous hosts can rake you over the coals. Register the domain with a registrar like Namecheap, then follow your host's instructions to point the domain towards their servers.
Wordpress - you completely own your website! No monthly payments to Wix, and if you want to edit things, you can do anything you want. If you want to move hosting you can do so easily. Wordpress is most definitely the better option of the two!
Wordpress and Wix are fine but have a fair amount of drawbacks that forced us to stop recommending them. We relied on Wordpress for many years to build and design custom websites but there were too many security vulnerabilities that needed regular support or leaked more information that we weren't comfortable with, particularly when creating custom e-commerce solutions. We use a platform called Webflow that we are very happy with. It was flexible, looks amazing, secure, and cost effective. I don't want to gush about the platform but, the headaches that we often saw small businesses struggle with were solved when we transitioned.
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WordPress all the way.
WordPress is an open source platform that drives 30% of Internet. It has a massive community of supporters, it can be made to serve a wide variety of purposes from simple brochure sites to complex e-commerce sites.
Wix is a quick fix. It may get you off the ground quickly, but it's filled with limitations over the long haul. Wix is a proprietary software that limits your ability to move the site and do a wide variety of things.
All things being equal, WordPress is hands down the better overall option.
Hope that helps!
Oooh, that's tough.
In my experience, answering that question usually comes by answering questions like this.
Happy to chat if you need some help figuring out which platform is right for your business. Just send me an email and I'll do my absolute best to offer as much free help and guidance as possible.
Thank you,
Gary Johnson
I use both. For myself and tech savvy clients I use Wordpress. For my less technical clients who want to manage a lot of their own content I set their site up in Wix. Wordpress is great but it's not as easy to work in as it seems.
Hello Benjamin, I am sure one can build a good looking Website on any of those platforms. However, good looking is not enough; a website should provide a few features that help the business with building channels to attract visitors and prospects. For example, it should provide custom information for search engines and social media sharing for each single page (that is code under the hood!). It should be easy for the business to place their own contents on the Website, and provide functions for visitors to interact (like e.g. newsletter signup, web form, online store, etc.). Further it may provide access to information for third party services that can be used to automate certain tasks, e.g. automatically sending out newsletters containing newly published articles. We have solved all these things for our customers and use the content management system Joomla! together with custom programmed templates as our platform of choice.
WordPress. Its easy to use and you can create a great website easily, even if you do not know HTML.
I had my website built and wordpress was used because of its flexibility.
Wordpress! I'm always converting over Wix sites for clients eventually as they have less features and are not customizable. But for a start-up, a wix site, or any other web builder is a good way to get started and play around with your content and messaging. This makes the second site easier and better.
I'm biased because I've been working with WordPress since version 2, but I'd steer clear of Wix as a platform. It's not only feature-limited, but like a number of other folks have said here, limits your ability to quickly move away from their platform. WordPress gives you far better SEO capabilities, and doesn't restrict you from making changes as needed. Choose your host wisely though — WordPress is arguably the most popular content management system in the world, and therefore a massive hack target. Your host should be able to do the necessary TLC on a regular basis with no involvement from you. Also choose your theme with care — avoid free themes, and themes from Themeforest and the like that load a ton of garbage plugins. My advice would be to work with a developer that knows what they are doing — ask to see previous work and talk to references before you hire.
Oh, and unrelated but important — never, ever give your web host control over your domain name! Many web hosts offer "free" domain registration and stuff like that, but do NOT fall for it! If you ever need to move away from them, unscrupulous hosts can rake you over the coals. Register the domain with a registrar like Namecheap, then follow your host's instructions to point the domain towards their servers.
Wordpress - you completely own your website! No monthly payments to Wix, and if you want to edit things, you can do anything you want. If you want to move hosting you can do so easily. Wordpress is most definitely the better option of the two!
Wordpress and Wix are fine but have a fair amount of drawbacks that forced us to stop recommending them. We relied on Wordpress for many years to build and design custom websites but there were too many security vulnerabilities that needed regular support or leaked more information that we weren't comfortable with, particularly when creating custom e-commerce solutions. We use a platform called Webflow that we are very happy with. It was flexible, looks amazing, secure, and cost effective. I don't want to gush about the platform but, the headaches that we often saw small businesses struggle with were solved when we transitioned.