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Directus vs Layers: What are the differences?

Developers describe Directus as "Free and Open-Source Headless CMS". Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus. On the other hand, Layers is detailed as "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.

Directus and Layers can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Directus and Layers are both open source tools. It seems that Directus with 4.68K GitHub stars and 464 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Layers with 10 GitHub stars and 7 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Directus
Pros of Layers
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    Open Source
  • 10
    API-based CMS
  • 8
    Self-hostable
  • 4
    Version 9 is Javascript Based
  • 2
    Graphql
  • 1
    Data visualizations
  • 1
    Flows
  • 1
    User permissisons
  • 1
    User roles
  • 1
    Components
  • 1
    Modular
  • 1
    Responsiveness
  • 1
    Useful API
  • 1
    Metrics
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    Cons of Directus
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      What is Directus?

      Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.

      What is Layers?

      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.

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