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Google Sites vs WordPress: What are the differences?

Developers describe Google Sites as "A structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool *". It is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. Its goal is for anyone to be able to create simple web sites that support collaboration between different editors. On the other hand, *WordPress** is detailed as "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.

Google Sites and WordPress are primarily classified as "Website Builder" and "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools respectively.

WordPress is an open source tool with 12.7K GitHub stars and 7.78K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WordPress's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Google Sites and WordPress

Xander Groesbeek

Founder at Rate My Meeting · Mar 30, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 157K views

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So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.

Dragos Balota

Jan 6, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 146.5K views

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10 Years ago I have started to check more about the online sphere and I have decided to make a website. There were a few CMS available at that time like WordPress or Joomla that you can use to have your website. At that point, I have decided to use WordPress as it was the easiest and I am glad I have made a good decision. Now WordPress is the most used CMS. Later I have created also a site about WordPress: https://www.wpdoze.com

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Pros of Google Sites

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411
Customizable
361
Easy to manage
351
Plugins & themes
258
Non-tech colleagues can update website content
246
Really powerful
144
Rapid website development
77
Best documentation
51
Codex
44
Product feature set
35
Custom/internal social network
15
Open source
8
Great for all types of websites
6
Huge install and user base
5
Best
5
It's simple and easy to use by any novice
5
Perfect example of user collaboration
5
Open Source Community
5
Most websites make use of it
5
I like it like I like a kick in the groin
4
Community
4
API-based CMS
3
Easy To use
2
<a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>

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Cons of Google Sites

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Plugins are of mixed quality
12
Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things
9
Not best backend UI
2
Complex Organization
1
Great Security

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What is Google Sites?

It is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. Its goal is for anyone to be able to create simple web sites that support collaboration between different editors.

What is WordPress?

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.

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What are some alternatives to Google Sites and WordPress?

Wix

Creating your stunning website for free is easier than ever. No tech skills needed. Just pick a template, change anything you want, add your images, videos, text and more to get online instantly.

Confluence

Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

GoDaddy

Go Daddy makes registering Domain Names fast, simple, and affordable. It is a trusted domain registrar that empowers people with creative ideas to succeed online.

Microsoft SharePoint

It empowers teamwork with dynamic and productive team sites for every project team, department, and division. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.

Weebly

Weebly is an AJAX website creator that allows you to create pages with template skins and content widgets. Users can easily drag-and-drop content widgets like pictures, text, video and Google Maps in WYSIWYG-fashion.

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