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Craft vs Layers: What are the differences?
Craft: A CMS built to do one thing and do it well: manage content. Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content; Layers: A simple WordPress site builder. Layers is a WordPress Theme framework focused on extending the WordPress core functionality to include layout building through the WordPress Visual Customizer. A lightweight set of base options, widgets and theme templates provide a user-friendly, extensible tool for creating beautiful, WordPress-faithful websites.
Craft and Layers belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Craft are:
- Relations
- Matrix
- Assets
On the other hand, Layers provides the following key features:
- Preset layouts allow you to get a head start without the intimidation of a big blank canvas
- Create robust, responsive designs that look incredible on mobile phones and tablets
- Integration with WooCommerce means you can start selling right out of the box
Layers is an open source tool with 10 GitHub stars and 7 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Layers's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Craft
- Quick bespoke CMS8
- Easy to use CMS7
- Clean slate approach to templating6
- Has it's own StackExcange2
- Clean templating markup (twig)2
- Great support2
- Free licence available for single user account version2