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Craft CMS vs WordPress: Which is Better?

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Craft CMS vs WordPress: Which is Better?

Whenever we hear the CMS word, WordPress comes to our mind. This is because WordPress has become the first choice of most developers to build a new website. 

Let me give an interesting stat, WordPress was released more than 15 years before, and now it empowers 36% of websites globally. 

After WordPress, different Content Management Systems were released into the market. Craft CMS is one of them. It was released in 2012 and getting many developers’ attention in the last few years.

If you are also planning to choose between the two for your project but aren’t familiar with them, it might be challenging to decide the best one.

We have developed websites in both CMS and WordPress. We know about both CMS very well. We have given important factors that should be considered while choosing the CMS to develop a website

So, let’s get started.

Craft CMS vs WordPress: Important Factors You Should Consider 

Here are the factors to consider choosing the best CMS for your next website development.

Plugins & Integrations

Craft CMS consists of its own plugin market; hence, it’s simple & effective to manage plugins directly. If you have multiple websites, then Craft CMS offers a benefit to manage all the licensing & payments from a single location. 

WordPress holds the major market share in the market, and it has plugins for most of the features & functionalities. All WordPress plugins are not up-to-date and it can cause security threats and privacy issues on a website.

Usability

Craft is mainly referred to as a user-friendly CMS platform. It offers a black slate to you on which you can add or delete things as per the requirement. Craft CMS gives you the privilege to check the live preview of pages you build. 

WordPress possesses a vast number of built-in components and most of them are not suitable for development. So you might spend your precious time finding suitable components and removing the rest.

Built-in Features & Functionalities

Craft CMS is introduced specially to develop dynamic websites. Due to this, its features and functionalities are highly suitable for developers. 

WordPress marketplace offers a massive variety of plugins, themes, and other resources to build a website and you can set up your website quickly.

We have explained some important factors that should be considered to choose CMS.

 

If you want to know about the other factors in detail, you can refer to the following blog.

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