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GitHub Pages vs WordPress: What are the differences?
GitHub Pages: Public webpages freely hosted and easily published. Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live; 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.
GitHub Pages can be classified as a tool in the "Static Web Hosting" category, while WordPress is grouped under "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS".
Some of the features offered by GitHub Pages are:
- Blogging with Jekyll
- Custom URLs
- Automatic Page Generator
On the other hand, WordPress provides the following key features:
- Flexibility
- Publishing Tools
- User Management
"Free", "Right out of github" and "Quick to set up" are the key factors why developers consider GitHub Pages; whereas "Customizable", "Easy to manage" and "Plugins & themes" are the primary reasons why WordPress is favored.
WordPress is an open source tool with 12.6K GitHub stars and 7.69K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WordPress's open source repository on GitHub.
Stack Exchange, ebay, and LinkedIn are some of the popular companies that use WordPress, whereas GitHub Pages is used by Lyft, CircleCI, and Bukalapak. WordPress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5305 company stacks & 1389 developers stacks; compared to GitHub Pages, which is listed in 576 company stacks and 683 developer stacks.
We use Netlify to host static websites.
The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:
- Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
- With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public
In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.
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 GitHub Pages
- Free289
- Right out of github217
- Quick to set up185
- Instant108
- Easy to learn107
- Great way of setting up your project's website58
- Widely used47
- Quick and easy41
- Great documentation37
- Super easy4
- Easy setup3
- Instant and fast Jekyll builds2
- Great customer support2
- Great integration2
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable410
- Easy to manage361
- Plugins & themes350
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content258
- Really powerful246
- Rapid website development144
- Best documentation77
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source14
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base6
- Best5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice5
- Most websites make use of it5
- Open Source Community5
- Perfect example of user collaboration5
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin5
- Community4
- API-based CMS4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
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Cons of GitHub Pages
- Not possible to perform HTTP redirects4
- Supports only Jekyll3
- Limited Jekyll plugins3
- Jekyll is bloated1
Cons of WordPress
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things11
- Plugins are of mixed quality10
- Not best backend UI8
- Complex Organization1
- Great Security1
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