WIX vs WordPress- Which is Best Content Editor?
WIX vs WordPress, Which is the Best Content Editor?
Selection of the Website Builder is not an easy task. Every developer might have confused about selecting the WIX or WordPress for building the website. Especially for the new websites. Both are the popular and best choice for building new websites, the differences between the two are slightly significant.
WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which means anyone, can use or modify the WordPress software for free. A CMS is a tool that assists you to manage significant features of your website like content and images without having knowledge of programming. All that you need to do is install WordPress on your web server. After installation, you can start editing the web pages by logging into your site. have to log in to your site. With help of a WordPress editor, you can edit the web pages of the website without any technical knowledge. WordPress doesn’t require programming knowledge unless you planning some customization to your website.
Wix is a cloud-based web development platform. It is used to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools. You can add functionality such as social plug-ins, online marketing, e-mail marketing, contact forms, and community forums to their websites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications.
Now we will compare WordPress with Wix to decide which one is the best choice for content editing.
Simple and Easy operating
WordPress is the easiest open source CMS available on the internet, but it is not the best choice for publishing web content. Compare to WordPress, Wix is the easiest and best option because it will provide smooth workflows: with Wix, you get everything (templates, hosting, widgets, and more) with a single online account, and with WordPress, you only get a CMS, beginners need to learn or they might know how to use it effectively.
WordPress designs are good but require some customizations to make it elegant and persuasive, to customize, coding knowledge is required. And users have to update manually While in Wix is updates are automatically and comes with included hosting.
Flexibility
Installing and managing Wix applications is easy, its versatile builder supports blogging and e-commerce very well. And you can integrate your website with multiple extensions(Live chat, Reviews) to improve the website functionality.
Initially, WordPress used to build the websites for the blogging platform, later it became a versatile program for developing websites and web stores, and thanks to various plugins, which helps to add multiple functionalities to improve the website. It doesn’t require any coding knowledge to add plugins to increase website functionality.
A few years back WordPress flexibility is greater than Wix, now days Wix also provide the perfect flexibility to improve and optimize the website functionality.
Design & layouts of Themes and Templates
Wix has more than 500+ free designer responsive templates written in HTML5. you can customize further using the built-in tools to modify the site design, layout, and rearrange things as you like.
Wix has excellent designs for business, eCommerce, hobbies, arts & crafts, personal, etc. the only disadvantage with Wix is unable to switch the templates, you can customize as you like but you cannot switch the templates.
WordPress has thousands of free and paid themes. Paid themes come with good functionality, features, and premium support than free themes. Themes range from one-page personal sites to full-fledged eCommerce, blogging sites. Most themes appear with built-in customization options. You can use plugins to customize your WordPress themes.
WordPress has a broad range of themes and design layouts than Wix. WordPress users can easily switch themes or customize them as much as they want without any limitations.
Data portability & Customer Support
WordPress is widely used so you can find multiple bloggers and communities, youtube channels. But officially there is no official support staff. But Wix will provide support through its official account. And also Wix has an education forum – WixEd. Wix provides immediate help and runs a great knowledge base.
With WordPress, you can download the content easily in XML format. WordPress is a self-hosted platform, so you can also plan complete backups, download your media files, and even manually export your WordPress database.
Wix has very limited options to shift your content to another platform. You can only transport your blog posts in XML format. You have to download all pages, images, videos, and other content manually.
According to Wix documentation, all your content is hosted exclusively on Wix’s servers and cannot be exported outside.
Cost
Cost is always mattered for building websites, Wix and WordPress both offer basic website builders free of cost but every business has certain requirements to fulfill their customer needs. So in order to fulfill customer requirements, you need premium themes and plugins that will cost more especially in Wix In Wix you cannot use your own domain name for your website and also Wix has premium plans for storage and bandwidth limitations. The Wix covers everything in their plans for all (Hostings, extensions, and free themes).
But WordPress is opensource and available for free for everyone. Unlike Wix, in WordPress, you can select your website name and domain name, there are plenty of hosting providers to assist you. The cost of the website increases if you are decided to integrate your website with premium themes and plugins.
Conclusion
We cannot justify or favor WordPress or Wix for the above reasons, and there are many other reasons customers evaluate while selecting the particular website builder. So it completely depends on what you’re looking for from your website builder and on your skill level.
If you’re technically convinced and are looking to build a large site, WordPress might be worth a try. However, if you’re not so tech-savvy and would prefer to use an easier platform, definitely look into Wix.
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