One of the number one things that I get asked the most often is this:
“Why do you like Squarespace more than Wordpress?”
For me, I’ve built websites on Wordpress since 2009, and before that I was hard coding websites with PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Wordpress was the most cutting edge tool for the internet when it was created, and it is still extremely valuable for what it is.
However, with my long experience of working on a daily basis with Wordpress, I’ve found that 99% of anything I can do - or would want to do on Wordpress, I can also do on Squarespace.
If I can’t do it on Squarespace, I might be able to do it on Wordpress, such as membership sites, or advanced customization in PHP creating apps, social networks etc.
However, Wordpress is only valuable for those things as a proof of concept, prototyping system.
There are a few myths that people believe about Wordpress vs. Squarespace:
Myth #1: Squarespace costs more than Wordpress
One thing people bring up is “Wordpress is free, Squarespace costs money” and this is actually completely untrue. In today’s day in age, you do NOT want to build your wordpress site long term on any sort of cheap $5-10/month hosting platform. The amount of computing power needed for a site to compete in 2019 is not sustainable on cheap shared hosting platforms.
These are great, again, for prototyping on a shoestring budget, but I can prototype on Squarespace much faster than Wordpress with more professionalism.
Squarespace features the highest level of cloud computing and CDN hosting out of the box for your site along with SSL security as well.
The cost of everything you would need to match the quality that Squarespace offers will end up costing you MORE than Wordpress in the long run!
You will also have to maintain updates on your Wordpress site. You will have to maintain server security, maintain your plugins, update your code when new updates come in and quickly these things cost you either time or money, which will mount up to costing more than Squarespace.
Simply in time, to deploy the websites that 99% of people need, Wordpress will cost you more in 1 year than Squarespace will - when you add up your time at $15/hour minimum (which I know most of you, your time is worth much more than that) and you can do the same things, better on Squarespace.
Myth #2: You can’t customize Squarespace like Wordpress
This is the biggest untruth that I found! Squarespace gives you the ability to insert custom code into every page of your site to do any number of customizations in a much easier way than Wordpress.
The Custom Developer platform of Squarespace allows you to download the entire template and customize every aspect of it from the ground up, creating completely unique designs and features for your site!
Myth #3: Wordpress is more secure than Squarespace
This isn’t even close to being true. The amount of maintenance required to keep Wordpress Secure is a full time job. Wordpress itself is insecure just because of how it’s structured and built from the code up.
Squarespace is far more secure in every single way because its maintained by Squarespace, and they are constantly updating the code, making it faster and more secure!
Advaned DDos mitigation techniques prevent malicious traffic from even coming to your site!
Think of Squarespace as your very own IT department, with free, unlimited hosting, top-of-the-line security, an enterprise-grade infrastructure, and around-the-clock support.
Myth #4: Squarespace isn’t good for blogs
Superior to wordpress in every way when it comes to blogging. Every squarespace template is built with blogging in mind to create the highest quality sites for desktop and mobile that you can imagine with the latest design standards.
Blogging on Squarespace is as easy as writing your content, and pressing publish!
Plus blogs look really good on Squarespace, afterall! This site was built on Squarespace, and this is a blog! See what I mean?
Half-Myth #5: Squarespace is too hard to use compared to Wordpres:
Actually Squarespace is far easier to use once you understand a few basic ways it works. I admit, when I first came from Wordpress to Squarespace, I was a bit overwhelmed - but after I learned how to use everything, I don’t use Wordpress anymore to build any of my sites for my client sites!
I created a course to solve this issue. I decided to break down, from the very basic level, every aspect of building a site on Squarespace in a course that I call Website Building Made Easy.
In it you get over 10.5 Hours of training on Squarespace. You can learn enough to do the basics in just an hour and a half during my session on the Brine template. I break down all of the main functions of building a website on Squarespace, enough to get anyone started right away!
My goal was to activate people to be able to build any site they can imagine in less than 7 days using Squarespace - and I believe this is the best resource available on the internet for you to do just that!
Order your copy of Website Building Made Easy (coming soon)!