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WordPress vs DatoCMS: What are the differences?
WordPress: A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family; DatoCMS: Build better websites without compromise. It is a fully customizable administrative area for your static websites. Use your favorite website generator, let your clients publish new content independently, host the site anywhere you like.
WordPress and DatoCMS can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by WordPress are:
- Flexibility
- Publishing Tools
- User Management
On the other hand, DatoCMS provides the following key features:
- Build a custom backend from a visual UI
- Supports virtually any static site generator
- Deploy anywhere you want (S3, Netlify, Surge.sh, etc.)
WordPress is an open source tool with 12.8K GitHub stars and 7.79K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WordPress's open source repository on GitHub.
So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.
10 Years ago I have started to check more about the online sphere and I have decided to make a website. There were a few CMS available at that time like WordPress or Joomla that you can use to have your website. At that point, I have decided to use WordPress as it was the easiest and I am glad I have made a good decision. Now WordPress is the most used CMS. Later I have created also a site about WordPress: https://www.wpdoze.com
Pros of DatoCMS
- API-based cms3
- Cheaper alternative3
- Free for small projects3
- Flexible3
- Simple and customizable2
- Images API2
- Granular permissions1
- Video streaming service1
- GraphQL API1
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable414
- Easy to manage365
- Plugins & themes353
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content257
- Really powerful246
- Rapid website development144
- Best documentation77
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source17
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base7
- Open Source Community5
- Most websites make use of it5
- Best5
- Perfect example of user collaboration5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice5
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin5
- API-based CMS4
- Community4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
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Cons of DatoCMS
Cons of WordPress
- Plugins are of mixed quality12
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things12
- Not best backend UI9
- Complex Organization2
- Great Security1
