![]() Wix elements can be customized within the context of the website. Elements can be selected, and you can make customizations on the fly. Here’s me changing the typography throughout my website using WordPress’s Theme Customizer ![]() Theme customization in WordPress is done through Customizer, a nice tool that lets you click elements to reveal style options or browse along and make style customizations. Wix has a smaller selection, but you’ll never find a theme that requires messing with code to be compatible with Wix features.Īnd, as the saying goes, one good theme is better than a thousand bad ones (okay, I made that up.). Like plugins, WordPress has a wider selection, but you’ll occasionally run into compatibility issues that will require you to debug with code. ![]() One thing Wix has going: All Wix themes are free-to-use WordPress has both free and paid themes. Wix offers 880+ themes-a good amount for a website builder, but it’s nowhere near WordPress’s 30,000+ themes. There is no universal right or wrong decision. That’s why you should think hard about what your website needs and use that to guide your decision. Instead, these differences are just fundamental to the nature of website builders and CMSs. Equally, it’s not that Wix doesn’t care about being customizable - the Wix team actually really cares about making a customizable website builder. It’s not that WordPress doesn’t care about being user-friendly - actually, the WordPress team works hard to make WordPress user-friendly. Overall, Wix is designed to be user-friendly, while WordPress is designed to be customizable. With WordPress, you may end up hiring a WordPress professional to help you build your website if you get frustrated trying to integrate themes and plugins. With Wix, you shouldn’t need to hire outside help unless you’re doing something really unusual- it’s designed to be amateur-friendly. (Plus, Wix’s visual theme editor is so customizable that you could design your own theme from scratch.) Wix has over 800 themes, which is less than WordPress… but all the themes work out of the box- there’s no need to tweak code. But unlike WordPress, Wix checks all apps for compatibility, so you can be confident they’ll integrate perfectly (there are rarely any compatibility issues or need to tweak code). It’s a small, curated collection of 300ish apps-not even close to matching the huge library of WordPress plugins. They offer an App Market that seems similar to WordPress’s plugins but is really not. It's not hard to find plugin reviews complaining about incompatibilities. All you have to do is browse plugin reviews to get a sense of the frustration: Incompatibilities often arise and getting the fix can require users to make tweaks to code- something not everyone is comfortable doing. Plus taking advantage of WordPress’s many themes and plugins never quite works perfectly. There can be long, technical settings pages and language can often get abstract and jargon-y. WordPress backends can get notoriously confusing. There are 60,000+ WordPress plugins on .īut the breadth of WordPress is also what can make it a hot mess. ![]() ![]() That’s way, way more than any website builder has. At the time of writing, there are 60,000+ plugins on and 30,000+ WordPress themes on the internet. One advantage is that WordPress has a huge amount of plugins and themes that were created by the open-source community. This is a major strength but also a weakness. WordPress is an open-source CMS-which means anyone can contribute to it. is a separate service that’s more like a website builder and is entirely different. Instead, the tool should match the need- let what you are building guide your decision. Just remember: Wix vs WordPress is not an ideological debate- there is no right or wrong answer. I’m just scratching the surface of the differences- as you’ll see in the rest of this article, the difference between Wix and WordPress manifests itself in templates, hosting, features, customer support and much more. Wix is easier to use but less flexible while WordPress is more flexible but has a steeper learning curve- deciding between the two is a question of tradeoffs. WordPress is open-source, which means it’s free for anyone to use and modify (though hosting, themes and plugins can all cost money). You need to set up WordPress on a web host-though that’s less intimidating than it sounds (there are plenty of hosts offering 1-click WordPress installation). A CMS like WordPress has a steeper learning curve but is highly customizable. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |