Many people are saying that WordPress is just a blog, and WordPress is not suitable for building certain types of websites blabla..
It's all in 2021. Let's take a look at the occupancy rate of WordPress. Take a closer look at what percentage of these sites are only blogs?
Yes, WordPress started as a blog (about 10 years ago). However, nowadays WordPress can be very professionally built: shopping malls (b2b, b2c can be), communities (askvilla, or quora Q&A communities), traditional corporate websites of all walks of life (I have made hundreds of these) .
Even if you are a blog site, WordPress is not as simple as posting articles by individuals for a long time. You can use it to build public blogs, wikis, and micro blogs. In short, as long as it is a website with successful cases on the market, WordPress can imitate its business prototype.
However, because WordPress is used by small teams or individuals, the overall level of developers does not seem to be very high, or the company itself does not invest in technology high, so many low-quality websites have been created; in addition, personal webmasters Many, personal stations, just start from high, ugly points are also normal, so the overall level of WordPress cases is lowered.
In addition, the expectation of many people for WordPress is to install a main program, choose a theme, and install a few plugins to create the desired website. There is no in-depth study of what is good about WordPress or what are the shortcomings. Such people, although they have used WordPress, but they give a one-sided evaluation of WordPress.
I have made one or two hundred websites with WordPress. My advice to you is that if you don't have basic technical skills, then don't use it. You will be tortured by various technical pitfalls. But if you are a small team or individual, know the technology, want to build your own product, and the capital investment is not high, then study WordPress and you will find that it is just a fish in water, it can do everything, the documentation is complete, the user is huge, almost Any questions can be Googled... But using other CMS on the market, especially those boasting domestically, is a waste of your precious time.
For Wix, I spent some time researching, because there are more people consulting, I always have to understand the "rival". Its system is very powerful (stronger than all domestic website building platforms I have seen), various drag-and-drop settings, low-code (simplified code) function implementation, are very mature, and the user experience is also good. It is worthy of being an involuntary website building field. The best. But you can see clearly that no matter how well you do it, you cannot build your own website.
You are using its software on his platform and then binding your own domain name in the past. Someday when people don’t want to play, they go bankrupt, or suddenly charge for some of your originally free functions, it’s up to you. In addition, Wix is not good for all persons. It has low-code functions that can realize more complex business logic than general website building systems, but low-code is also code, and you need to have a little programming thinking to play well. I think this is embarrassing. For programmers, they don't want to play with this kind of thing. They already have to program.
Why should I use it if I can build a website on my own?
Shopify, in essence, like Wix, is also a non-self-built website. But this is for e-commerce, and it is also very, very professional. I think this positioning still has a big market, and it is suitable for companies with business but no technology. Since you don't have the skills, don't talk about building your own website. It's not worth your time to waste your time. It's better to use Shopify, the family bucket.
Things are sold on top of it, just use its order system and promotion tools to enjoy its convenience. This is definitely better than finding a second-rate programmer to build your own e-commerce system with WordPress+Woocommerce, because the level is second-rate. Some people will ask why they are looking for second-rate programmers instead of first-rate programmers. Because you don't know the level of programmers, there is a high probability that you can only meet second-rate programmers.
So although your website has been self-built, it is not that SEO is not in place, or the page is ugly, bugs, and troublesome? So, it's better to use Shopify!
To sum up: These three things have their own clear positioning, but for developers, WordPress is definitely good. The other two are not things of the same latitude, which is incomparable; I am a developer who specializes in WordPress. Looking at those Wix and Shopify websites in my eyes is to see the 2D world from the 3D world. If a customer asks me to use WordPress as a website to benchmark against a competitor’s Wix or Shopify website (or any website made by a non-self-build system), what is it called? It is called a drop strike.
Wix’s positioning is a bit awkward. It’s suitable for users who only display pages but don’t have technical capabilities. You can use it as a facade website, but if you want to add an e-commerce company, you have to use Shopify. The positioning is relatively narrow. I don’t recommend Wix, even though I think the company that can make Wix is very powerful (because the basic structure is really good)...
Shopify, the positioning is very clear, selling things, unskilled users
If you give me any website made by Wix or Shopify and let me implement it with WordPress, it will be no problem, and the access speed, SEO, and various technical indicators that you can see and cannot see are better than it.
However, it is impossible to use Wix or Shopify for most of the WordPress sites I make. Why?
Because transformation is not free, even if they are advanced in engineering, they cannot satisfy our imagination and the creativity of designers. There are no boundaries to developing a website with WordPress (except for "users" who only install themes and plug-ins); while a website made with a non-self-built website platform (you can only change themes and install plug-ins) can only make do with it.
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