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Followers32K

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Followers42

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WordPress vs WP Engine: What are the differences?

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; WP Engine: Hassle-Free WordPress Hosting. WP Engine provides best-in-class customer service on top of innovation-driven technology. This is why over 30,000 customers in 120 countries have chosen us for their mission critical WordPress hosting needs.

WordPress belongs to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack, while WP Engine can be primarily classified under "Hosted Blogging Platforms".

Some of the features offered by WordPress are:

Flexibility
Publishing Tools
User Management

On the other hand, WP Engine provides the following key features:

Support
Dail backups
Firewall

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.

Decisions about WordPress and WP Engine

Xander Groesbeek

Founder at Rate My Meeting · Mar 30, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 161.5K 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 · 151.4K 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 WordPress

Pros of WP Engine

412
Customizable
362
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>

1
Best customer support of any business, all time
0
<a href="https://hostandprotect.com/">best hosting</a>

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Cons of WordPress

Cons of WP Engine

12
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 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.

What is WP Engine?

WP Engine provides best-in-class customer service on top of innovation-driven technology. This is why over 30,000 customers in 120 countries have chosen us for their mission critical WordPress hosting needs.

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What are some alternatives to WordPress and WP Engine?

Shopify

Shopify powers tens of thousands of online retailers including General Electric, Amnesty International, CrossFit, Tesla Motors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Foo Fighters, GitHub, and more. Our platform allows users to easily and quickly create their own online store without all the technical work involved in developing their own website, or the huge expense of having someone else build it. Shopify lets merchants manage all aspects of their shops: uploading products, changing the design, accepting credit card orders, and viewing their incoming orders and completed transactions.

Joomla!

Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.

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.

Squarespace

Whether you need simple pages, sophisticated galleries, a professional blog, or want to sell online, it all comes standard with your Squarespace website. Squarespace starts you with beautiful designs right out of the box — each handcrafted by our award-winning design team to make your content stand out.

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.

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