I know, I know, we hate Wix. I know, it sucks, we are WORDPRESS. we love wordpress dearly!
but…wix is our competition, they are going after our clients (big time). They want our clients!
and they aint playin, they actually DO have some exciting features…their blocks are pretty decent and advanced…obviously we hate wix, yes they suck for a long list of reasons (we tell our clients) and it's true! but…I just saw a very compelling wix ad…they are coming for our clients!! which gutenberg plugin is the absolutely WIX KILLER guys? stock gutenberg isn't quite there, if I"m honest, wix DOES have some dope @#$ S### I think. for the noobs, it's easy they love that, and costs less than hiring US…so how do we keep our edge? can wix do some cool stuff now that we can't easily do?? (obviously apples and oranges, it's true, and we explain this to our clients) but inside their design system, they have some cool features…for text and blocks and AI effects! which plugins are people using that are wix killers for that stuff…BAM. we must prevail!!
I’ve used Wix Studio and it’s nice but Kevin Geary in a YT video brought up the point we can all bring up in this conversation: you don’t own your data. Now in the case of a small mom and pop restaurant so what? You’ll always have your copy and pictures anyway but think about Webflow – they reduced bandwidth for users just recently and reading the comments of their biggest supporters, they were upset but there’s nothing they can do. Hell WebStudio has seen this as an opportunity. But these closed source systems can do what they want and you have very little say. Shopify has closed people’s stores without warning. Webflow has increased prices and changed plans,
Maybe Wix is right for some people. Those people aren’t my clients.
I pursue clients who are looking for more complex sites with unique permissions configurations, member directories, advanced lead capture, etc.
Personally, I’m now using Bricks and Motion.Page to do everything I need, to include Awwwards style sites (if that’s your sort of thing).
At this point, if a potential client doesn’t need custom post types and custom fields, and doesn’t have any privacy concerns or doesn’t care about owning their data, let Wix or Squarespace have them.
I’m exhausted at this point in my career I think. I still get hyped about stuff (MotionPage was my last “hype” moment where I spent prob 50+ hours of my own time exploring a plugin, something I haven’t felt since I discovered how ACF worked as a young dev prob 8 years ago) but I’m pretty much done trying to make cases for WordPress where there isn’t a clear one. Wix is lame as shit, but sometimes that’s all small businesses need.
We should send them right over to Wix. Do you think helping non developers launch sites helps build and bigger and stronger community or a bigger bot net? Would you trust these people with a stand alone WP install?