Overview

WordPress

Stacks99.7K

Followers41.4K

Votes2.1K

GitHub Stars20.6K

Forks12.9K

VuePress

Stacks365

Followers418

Votes8

GitHub Stars22.8K

Forks4.7K

VuePress vs WordPress: What are the differences?

Introduction

VuePress and WordPress are both popular tools for building websites, but they have some key differences that set them apart. In this article, we will explore these differences to help you understand the unique features and capabilities of each platform.

Customizability: VuePress offers a high level of customization, allowing developers to tailor their websites to meet specific requirements. It utilizes a flexible theme system that enables users to create custom themes or modify existing ones. On the other hand, WordPress also provides customization options through themes and plugins, but it may require more advanced coding knowledge to achieve extensive customization.
Content Management: While both VuePress and WordPress allow users to manage and publish content, their approaches are different. VuePress is primarily a static site generator, meaning it generates static HTML files that can be easily deployed and hosted on any server. WordPress, on the other hand, is a full-fledged content management system (CMS) that uses a database to store and retrieve content dynamically. This makes WordPress more suitable for websites that frequently update and add new content.
Learning Curve: VuePress is built on top of Vue.js, a JavaScript framework, which means developers with experience in Vue.js will find it easier to work with VuePress. However, for those unfamiliar with Vue.js, there may be a learning curve to understand the concepts and syntax. WordPress, on the other hand, has a more user-friendly interface and a large community of users, making it easier for beginners to get started.
Ecosystem and Plugins: WordPress boasts a vast ecosystem of themes and plugins, offering a wide range of functionalities to enhance your website. With thousands of free and premium options, you can easily add features like e-commerce, SEO optimization, and social media integration. VuePress, while relatively new, also has a growing ecosystem of themes and plugins, albeit not as extensive as WordPress.
Performance and Speed: VuePress is built with performance in mind, generating static HTML files that load quickly and efficiently. This makes it a suitable choice for websites that prioritize speed and performance. WordPress, on the other hand, relies on dynamic loading of content from a database which can potentially slow down the website, especially for large websites with heavy traffic.
Hosting and Deployment: VuePress websites are easy to deploy as they consist of simple static files that can be hosted on various platforms, including GitHub Pages, Netlify, or any static hosting service. WordPress, on the other hand, requires a web server with PHP and a MySQL database to host the website. This may involve additional setup and maintenance, especially for non-technical users.

In summary, VuePress offers extensive customization options, generates static websites for fast performance, and requires knowledge of Vue.js, while WordPress provides a full CMS experience, a vast ecosystem of themes and plugins, and a user-friendly interface suitable for beginners.

Advice on WordPress, VuePress

Xander

Founder at Rate My Meeting

Mar 30, 2020

Decided

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.

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Kazim

Founder & Developer at Devkind

May 13, 2020

Needs advice

Fastest and quickest way to do static HTML site which is extremely fast? Do you consider above tools or is there anything more quicker or better? This is just a one time one pager site for now, no backend required. I might have such projects in future, having something to get familiar with which can immediately come into action to develop would be great advise!

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Dragos

Jan 6, 2020

Decided

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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Detailed Comparison

WordPress	VuePress
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.	A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.
Flexibility;Publishing Tools;User Management;Media Management;Full Standards Compliance;Easy Theme System;Extend with Plugins;Built-in Comments;Search Engine Optimized;Multilingual;Easy Installation and Upgrades;Importers;Own Your Data	Built-in markdown extensions optimized for technical documentation; Ability to leverage Vue inside markdown files; Vue-powered custom theme system; Automatic Service Worker generation; Google Analytics Integration; Multi-language support; A default theme with responsive layout, optional homepage, simple out-of-the-box header-based search, customizable navbar and sidebar, and auto-generated GitHub link and page edit links
Statistics
GitHub Stars 20.6K	GitHub Stars 22.8K
GitHub Forks 12.9K	GitHub Forks 4.7K
Stacks 99.7K	Stacks 365
Followers 41.4K	Followers 418
Votes 2.1K	Votes 8
Pros & Cons
Pros 417 Customizable 368 Easy to manage 356 Plugins & themes 259 Non-tech colleagues can update website content 248 Really powerful Cons 13 Plugins are of mixed quality 13 Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things 10 Not best backend UI 2 Complex Organization 1 Do not cover all the basics in the core	Pros 4 It's Vue 2 Created by the vue.js developers 2 Built in text search feature Cons 3 Its Vue
Integrations
ClickTale Clicky Disqus Formstack GoSquared HipChat Hipmob KickoffLabs KISSmetrics LiveChat	Vue.js Google Analytics

What are some alternatives to WordPress, VuePress?

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Strapi

Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.

Jekyll

Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

Hugo

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.

Wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

Gatsby

Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

Twill

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

Hexo

Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.