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GoDaddy vs WordPress: What are the differences?
GoDaddy: The Web's largest hosting and domain registration provider. Go Daddy makes registering Domain Names fast, simple, and affordable; WordPress: A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
GoDaddy can be classified as a tool in the "Domain Registration" category, while WordPress is grouped under "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS".
Some of the features offered by GoDaddy are:
- Private Registration- Keeps your personal information private, protecting you from spam, scams and worse.
- GeoDomainMap Tool- Quickly search for and register all the available domain names for a particular area or region (e.g. CedarRapidsCreativeWriters.com).
- Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)- Register .COM, .NET, .ORG and other popular domain names in any one of over 100 native languages, ranging from Afrikaans to Vietnamese. Search using English or native character sets.
On the other hand, WordPress provides the following key features:
- Flexibility
- Publishing Tools
- User Management
"Flexible payment methods for domains " is the top reason why over 4 developers like GoDaddy, while over 397 developers mention "Customizable" as the leading cause for choosing WordPress.
WordPress is an open source tool with 12.6K GitHub stars and 7.69K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WordPress's open source repository on GitHub.
Stack Exchange, ebay, and LinkedIn are some of the popular companies that use WordPress, whereas GoDaddy is used by HigherMe, Animoto, and Freemake. WordPress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5305 company stacks & 1389 developers stacks; compared to GoDaddy, which is listed in 47 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.
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Pros of GoDaddy
- Flexible payment methods for domains8
- .io support3
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable416
- Easy to manage367
- Plugins & themes354
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content259
- Really powerful247
- Rapid website development145
- Best documentation78
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source18
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base7
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice5
- Perfect example of user collaboration5
- Open Source Community5
- Most websites make use of it5
- Best5
- API-based CMS4
- Community4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
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Cons of GoDaddy
- Constantly trying to upsell you2
- Not a great UI1
Cons of WordPress
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things13
- Plugins are of mixed quality13
- Not best backend UI10
- Complex Organization2
- Do not cover all the basics in the core1
- Great Security1
