Webflow vs WordPress Which One’s Best for Your Site?
Webflow: For The Design Control Freaks
If you want full control over your site design… without needing to write code… Webflow is your new best friend. Drag. Drop. Tweak. Obsess over spacing by 1 pixel. Live your best designer life.
Perks:
- Built-in hosting (no faffing with servers)
- Visual editing (yes, what you see is what you get)
- CMS that works without making you download 19 plugins
Downsides:
- There’s a learning curve. You’ll click stuff. Get confused. Click more stuff. Eventually… victory.
WordPress: For The Tinkerers (And Those Who Love a Plugin Gamble)
If you like options… and by options, I mean too many options… WordPress is your guy. Open source. Fully customisable. And full of surprises… mostly in the form of things breaking when you least expect it.
Perks:
- Massive flexibility
- Thousands of plugins (some good… some created in someone’s basement in 2014 and never updated again)
- Great for blogs, e-commerce and anything super content-heavy
Downsides:
- Setup takes patience (and/or a developer)
- Expect to spend quality time Googling error messages
- Hosting is your problem… enjoy (Although we find Siteground to be amazing for Wordpress DIVI sites! P.s that is an affiliate link)
So… Which One Should You Use?
Honestly… depends how much you value your free time.
- Want clean design, built-in hosting and less technical headache? → Go Webflow
- Want full flexibility and don’t mind occasional plugin-induced chaos? → Go WordPress
Both can build great websites. Both will, at some point, make you want to comfort eat out of frustration... At Pixelbricks, we use both and it really depends on the project we're working on. If it's a small brochure style website that doesn't need all the frills, the Wordpress it is! If we want a site that steps it up a notch then you bet we're using Webflow.
Side point... For SEO, I have often found that the sites we have built in Webflow, tend to have strong domain authority in shorter time. This is an ongoing experiment though. But I see positive signs...
Bonus Brag: We’re in Forbes (Casual)
If you’re after a deeper dive into all the nitty-gritty… like hosting, e-commerce, scalability and all the other stuff that makes web designers sigh dramatically… We chatted about all this in a recent Forbes article… yes, that Forbes…They even quoted us rambling on about how Webflow’s CMS is “one of the few things in life that just works”… (Unlike your WiFi… or assembling IKEA furniture… or, let’s be honest… most things in life.)
👉 Check out the full Forbes Webflow vs WordPress comparison here
