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Squarespace vs. WordPress
There are various content
management systems in the world.
In the creation of a website, it is
necessary to select a content
management system. The famous
ones are WordPress, Joomla,
Magento, Drupal, etc. Nowadays,
there are many commercials about
Squarespace too and it is getting
popular nowadays. Since
WordPress is the most famous
amongst all and Squarespace is
getting in the competition now, we
will provide a comparison between
the two so that by the end of this
article you will have a clear idea of
which platform to use. But before
we get into technicalities let us first
know a bit about these two
platforms.
WORDPRESS
WordPress was launched in the
ear 2003. Majority of the websites
are made of WordPress. It is said
to be the most famous among all
with over 60 million websites under
it. It is known for the many plugins
and features that it provides. We
will go through this in detail later
on.
SQUARESPACE
Squarespace was founded in 2003
and then launched in the year
2004. This is a platform for CMS,
hosting, domain name registration,
commerce platform and a website
builder. We will go more into detail
about its features and pricing
below.
Now let us compare these two
systems and note down their
features.
1. User interface
WORDPRESS:
WordPress is a powerful stage
with a considerable measure of
decisions. This platform can be
utilized by apprentice level clients
and also propelled level clients.
WordPress can also be utilized to
begin a blog or an exceptionally
proficient site
There is certainly a slight
expectation to learn and adapt
even though it is genuinely an
instinctive and simple to use
platform. There are many
terminologies, phrases and ideas
that that one can to acquaint
themselves with, for e.g. use of
plugins, themes, tags, posts, and
pages, etc.
For the beginners, there is a
default WordPress post editor that
is genuinely simple to utilize. It
accompanies with a visual editor
and a plain text editor for the users
that are little advanced. Including
intelligent substance, for example,
pictures, recordings, and the
sound are greatly simplified.
Regardless of the slight
expectation to absorb information,
most of the clients rapidly adjust to
it. Nevertheless, there is still space
to make the stage less difficult and
less demanding for learners.
SQUARESPACE:
Comparatively, Squarespace does
not accompany an excessive
number of decisions. Nonetheless,
this absence of decisions makes it
extremely straightforward and
simple to utilize. Indeed, even the
supreme tenderfoots can rapidly
compose content and distribute it.
Including pictures, recordings, and
sound documents is less complex
than WordPress. For the beginners
who have never worked on a
website, it is very easy to create
pages and posts.
2. Pricing
WORDPRESS:
WordPress is a free site to build
and download it with many free
themes and plugins. For a website
to be visible in front of people, you
have to host it and pay for the
hosting and the maintenance of
your website. The cost will depend
upon which hosting provider and
plan you choose.
SQUARESPACE
There are two different pricing
rates for building a website on
Squarespace. their personal plan
is for A$16 that provides unlimited
pages to create, blogs, unlimited
bandwidth and allows only two
contributors. They also provide
24×7 customer service and SSL
security with a free custom domain
that is charged annually. Websites
with this plan are also mobile
optimized providing powerful
website metrics.
The business plan is for A$25 that
provides all of the above features.
Here the difference is that you can
add unlimited contributors to the
website. The additional features
that it provides are promotional
pop-ups, fully-integrated e-
commerce, mobile information bar,
premium blocks, and integration
allows selling unlimited products
and accepting donations, etc.
3. Features and designs
WORDPRESS:
The genuine energy of WordPress
is its adaptability. One can easily
add new features to the
WordPress site like social sharing
plugins, membership plugins, etc.
you can make any sort of site you
can envision with WordPress.
Additionally, there are a huge
number of free and paid themes
that you can use for your website.
It has themes for any sort of site
that you need to make.
It is also very easy to install and
use them.
SQUARESPACE:
Comparatively to WordPress,
Squarespace has a very restricted
number of templates. Squarespace
falls truly falls behind in this area.
The plugins are also very limited
and one can only use the built-in
ones. There is no less demanding
route for you to broaden the
usefulness of your site by
introducing an outside plugin.
Nevertheless, again the choices
are not very many and entirely
restricted.
4. The portability of data
WORDPRESS:
The data portability of WordPress
is very easy. One can easily
transfer data from one content
management system to another.
There is also an option available to
back up the files, themes, and
plugins that you have used. The
best part is that you can also
change your hosting plan or
provider without any damage.
Their tools for transferring data are
all built-in.
SQUARESPACE:
In case of data portability also
Squarespace lacks behind. It has
very restricted features for
exporting. You cannot export all of
your content but will only be
allowed to do a few. The certain
parts that can be exported are a
blog post, galleries, and pages.
The other parts such as videos,
text, audio or product pages will be
restricted to export.
5. E-commerce
WORDPRESS:
WordPress enables you to
coordinate and utilize any
instalment processor or stage you
need. These plugins enable you to
effortlessly coordinate with Bitcoin,
PayPal, Payoneer, Stripe, Skrill,
2Checkout and even Google
Checkout.
They provide many WordPress
plugins that allow you to make an
e-commerce website easier and
without any haste.
SQUARESPACE:
Again, Squarespace has very
limited options for e-commerce.
Squarespace can only coordinate
with Stripe that is restricted to few
countries. Additionally, they allow
you to use limited products for the
website.
CONCLUSION:
As you can see, WordPress has
much more features, themes, and
plugins than Squarespace. Even
though Squarespace has
affordable pricing plans and has
their own hosting platform and
domain register it still lacks behind
when it comes to designs, themes,
and plugins.
Squarespace can be a decent
decision for little destinations that
need restricted usefulness.
Squarespace is additionally
marginally better inconvenience
when composing posts. Aside from
that, WordPress outflanks
Squarespace in each conceivable
use situation.
Read up our other guide on off-
page SEO and Local SEO.
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