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Layers vs Sitefinity: What are the differences?
Developers describe Layers as "A simple WordPress site builder". Layers is a WordPress Theme framework focused on extending the WordPress core functionality to include layout building through the WordPress Visual Customizer. A lightweight set of base options, widgets and theme templates provide a user-friendly, extensible tool for creating beautiful, WordPress-faithful websites. On the other hand, Sitefinity is detailed as "Used to create, store, manage, and present content on your website". It is a content management system (CMS) is software that allows customers to make updates and changes to their website without a web developer.
Layers and Sitefinity belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Layers are:
- Preset layouts allow you to get a head start without the intimidation of a big blank canvas
- Create robust, responsive designs that look incredible on mobile phones and tablets
- Integration with WooCommerce means you can start selling right out of the box
On the other hand, Sitefinity provides the following key features:
- Web Content Management
- Customer engagement, conversion and retention
- Content creation and management
Layers is an open source tool with 11 GitHub stars and 6 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Layers's open source repository on GitHub.
