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I have a client (a wedding and events venue) who has a WordPress site, and they want me to make them a new site to replace it. I only make sites in Squarespace (please don’t hate, it works well for my purposes).
Before I agree to it, are there any downsides I should warn them about? Like loss in functionality, SEO, or any other important differences?
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Squarespace is proprietary. Their build tools only work on Squarespace service.
If Squarespace decides to shutdown tomorrow, disable exporting of content, or stop adding features, you’re going to have trouble. Squarespace customers that are deeply embedded in their products are also at the mercy of price increases because their sites are locked to the service.
With WordPress, everything is open source. If your web host shuts down, you take your backup elsewhere. If WordPress as an organization shuts down, your site still works and anyone with knowledge of coding and WordPress can still keep things active. If your web host jump prices, you can shop around.
Plus, you own your content. Aside from web hosts forbidding certain types of content, no one can just randomly shut you down because they don’t like what you do. It might seem rare, but there was a business that had their eCommerce shirt business essentially halted overnight because their designs were controversial. That may not have been Squarespace, though, but the problem is similar with Shopify, Wix, etc.
> Before I agree to it, are there any downsides I should warn them about? Like loss in functionality, SEO, or any other important differences?
Unless I’m mistaken, Squarespace doesn’t have flexibility in its platform. You can’t custom code features for it, install feature plugins, change hosts, …
It does one thing specifically, and that’s why you’re tied to that one thing. There’ll be some vendor lock-in.