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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.
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.
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
Pros of Google Sites
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable408
- Easy to manage359
- Plugins & themes349
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content258
- Really powerful245
- Rapid website development143
- Best documentation76
- Codex50
- Product feature set43
- Custom/internal social network34
- Open source13
- Great for all types of websites7
- Huge install and user base5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice4
- Most websites make use of it4
- Open Source Community4
- Perfect example of user collaboration4
- Best4
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin3
- Community3
- API-based CMS3
- Easy To use2
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>1
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Cons of Google Sites
Cons of WordPress
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things11
- Plugins are of mixed quality10
- Not best backend UI8
- Complex Organization1
- Great Security1
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Wordpress is extremely easy to learn and implement. Although is it not as sexy for devs to work with it is by far the most cost effective way to get a dynamic website up and running with very little debugging.
It's great for: * Landing pages * Private Social Networks * Blogs - obviously ;) * News Networks * Member sites * Multilingual content
well my cms is also wp and for a simple fitness blog/brand wordpress extends great help. Easy to use backend, easy plugins for seo. Recommended for freshies! I like this CMS. It is easy for use. I recommended them.
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I use WordPress to develop easy-to-maintain, dynamic sites for clients and at my job at KHM Travel Group. I also used WordPress to develop personal/project sites while at Bowling Green State University.
Wordpress is used for our blog and some of our content & landing pages, runs on a subdomain. We also use a custom Python proxy to bring in blog content to the primary domain (/blog).
I use word press when I need to deliver static websites in super short time. It’s easy, fast and can be used to create amazing single page sites for small to medium sized companies..