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Trying to decide between these: (a) Wordpress (b) SquareSpace (c) https://strapi.io/ https://strapi.io/ (d) https://prismic.io/ https://prismic.io/

Trying to decide between these: (a) Wordpress (b) SquareSpace (c) https://strapi.io/ https://strapi.io/ (d) https://prismic.io/ https://prismic.io/ (e) https://www.contentful.com/ https://www.contentful.com/ The output will be a simple website, we already have all pages in HTML, and from the tech perspective we could use any of the above. What I've seen was: SquareSpace is still rather limited, Prismic and Contentful are around $500 per month in their non-free-tier, and Strapi is just too expensive to find devs for. Plus their editor looks the same as Wordpress's if I'm honest. On the other hand, Wordpress has a massive community of reasonably priced freelancers, has updates many times a year, and most things you want out of the box (such as SEO, or easy hosting on Heroku or elsewhere). The only thing it doesn't have is the excitement to work with it :) Is there a good business case for any of the competitors?

raffijacobs 5y ago
My current headless CMS choice is sanity.io. you'd still need a dev for the frontend and sanity schema setup probably.
fake-name 5y ago
Squarespace has somehow managed to make <img> tags require 3rd party javascript to work. I cannot take them as anything other then grossly incompetent.
cstuder 5y ago
Choose boring technology. WordPress is 18 years old, there's a good chance that it will be around for quite some time longer.
john-shaffer 5y ago
Consider a static WordPress site via the WP2Static plugin: https://wp2static.com https://wp2static.com Going static solves most of the performance and security problems with WordPress. There's a prebuilt Docker setup at https://lokl.dev/ https://lokl.dev/ and an AWS template at https://staticweb.io/open-source/wordpress/ https://staticweb.io/open-source/wordpress/ There are also commercial hosts (with their own plugins) at https://www.strattic.com/ https://www.strattic.com/ and https://www.hardypress.com/ https://www.hardypress.com/ I've worked a bit with Contentful, and it seemed like a pretty good CMS, but pricey. The client was moving off of it because they wanted the more familiar WordPress UI.
- interestica 5y ago
  Is there something up with wp2static right now or did they intentionally strip out all CSS/Style?
  - john-shaffer 5y ago
    The appearance is intentional. The author (https://github.com/leonstafford https://github.com/leonstafford) is very into minimalism and accessibility.
- gman83 5y ago
  Ohh thanks for this I'm going to try this out looks awesome!
neurostimulant 5y ago
I would choose something that would let me move my site to other vendors easily or self-hosting it.
pembrook 5y ago
Webflow. Webflow is basically a super good editor that spits out static sites on build. As easy to update as squarespace for non-tech folks, but as customizable and secure as a static site generator (since you can build everything from scratch).
b0ner_t0ner 5y ago
Also look into Frontity https://frontity.org/ https://frontity.org/ if you're using React on the frontend. Check out their showcase page, a lot of big companies already using it: https://frontity.org/showcase/ https://frontity.org/showcase/

raffijacobs 5y ago

My current headless CMS choice is sanity.io. you'd still need a dev for the frontend and sanity schema setup probably.

fake-name 5y ago

Squarespace has somehow managed to make <img> tags require 3rd party javascript to work. I cannot take them as anything other then grossly incompetent.

cstuder 5y ago

Choose boring technology. WordPress is 18 years old, there's a good chance that it will be around for quite some time longer.

john-shaffer 5y ago

Consider a static WordPress site via the WP2Static plugin: https://wp2static.com https://wp2static.com Going static solves most of the performance and security problems with WordPress. There's a prebuilt Docker setup at https://lokl.dev/ https://lokl.dev/ and an AWS template at https://staticweb.io/open-source/wordpress/ https://staticweb.io/open-source/wordpress/ There are also commercial hosts (with their own plugins) at https://www.strattic.com/ https://www.strattic.com/ and https://www.hardypress.com/ https://www.hardypress.com/ I've worked a bit with Contentful, and it seemed like a pretty good CMS, but pricey. The client was moving off of it because they wanted the more familiar WordPress UI.

interestica 5y ago
Is there something up with wp2static right now or did they intentionally strip out all CSS/Style?
- john-shaffer 5y ago
  The appearance is intentional. The author (https://github.com/leonstafford https://github.com/leonstafford) is very into minimalism and accessibility.
gman83 5y ago
Ohh thanks for this I'm going to try this out looks awesome!

neurostimulant 5y ago

I would choose something that would let me move my site to other vendors easily or self-hosting it.

pembrook 5y ago

Webflow. Webflow is basically a super good editor that spits out static sites on build. As easy to update as squarespace for non-tech folks, but as customizable and secure as a static site generator (since you can build everything from scratch).

b0ner_t0ner 5y ago

Also look into Frontity https://frontity.org/ https://frontity.org/ if you're using React on the frontend. Check out their showcase page, a lot of big companies already using it: https://frontity.org/showcase/ https://frontity.org/showcase/