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Webflow vs WordPress: What are the differences?
Webflow: Build responsive websites visually. Webflow is a responsive design tool that lets you design, build, and publish websites in an intuitive interface. Clean code included!; 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.
Webflow and WordPress are primarily classified as "Static Web Hosting" and "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Webflow are:
- Build responsive websites
- PIxel perfect control
- Publish and host in minutes
On the other hand, WordPress provides the following key features:
- Flexibility
- Publishing Tools
- User Management
"Interactions and Animations" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Webflow, 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 Webflow is used by Timekit, URL Snap, and SupplyAI. WordPress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5305 company stacks & 1389 developers stacks; compared to Webflow, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
So I've been working as a freelancer building websites using Wordpress, limiting myself to available templates and customizing it (drag and drop no code involvement) and blending between plugins to get the requirements as much as possible. and I have spent my day job doing everything related to web portals (business case, business plans, marketing, back-office operations, project management, product management) but never got my hands into code yet. I heard of zero-code solutions such as Bubble and Webflow and I would like to be able to develop an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) to launch those ideas quickly to make sure that I make some sales before we invest into building a state of the art app.
Those MVPs are a struggle since most of it has its own unique processes therefore WordPress doesn't come in handy most of the time. This is where Bubble and Webflow come to the fore. Before I start my journey to learn one of these tools, where I imagine I will spend weeks to months learning, I need to know which road I should take while I am standing at the crossroads.
Objective: 1- Build MVPs with unique workflows to secure sales and transactions to confirm the product is viable
Requirements: 1- No coding knowledge required 2- Drag and drop workflows 3- Can use RTL (right to left) and build websites in Arabic 4- Cost-effective 5- High-quality online courses (free/paid) are available
Your advice is much appreciated.
I recommend learning HTML5, bucko.
All checks out: 1- No coding knowledge required 2- Drag and drop workflows 3- Can use RTL (right to left) and build websites in Arabic 4- Cost-effective 5- High-quality online courses (free/paid) are available
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.
For our company website and for most simple company sites, we have chosen the Webflow CMS over Wordpress. We have many reasons for this, but a couple are security, updates, ease of use, and ease of customization. Many times, a customer will ask for a simple design change, or feature, that with Wordpress is difficult to maintain, and accomplish. With the cms set up with Webflow, we are easily able to make changes. Another huge benefit of Webflow over Wordpress is the ease of use for our customers. Webflows editor makes it easy to keep design separated from content, while also making it very easy for customers to make edits to their website. We are very happy with Webflow, although there are some features it lacks in a cms, it is a perfect fit for most publicity/marketing websites as well as small to medium sized blogs.
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 Webflow
- Interactions and Animations13
- Builds clean code in the background7
- Fast development of html and css layouts/design7
- Free plan6
- Fully Customizable6
- Simple5
- Prototype4
- Built on web standards2
- Next Gen2
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable413
- Easy to manage364
- Plugins & themes352
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content258
- Really powerful246
- Rapid website development144
- Best documentation77
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source16
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base6
- 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
- Community4
- API-based CMS4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
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Cons of Webflow
- Freemium1
- No Audio Support1
Cons of WordPress
- Plugins are of mixed quality12
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things12
- Not best backend UI9
- Complex Organization2
- Great Security1
