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I have been researching different website development tools and I have come to the conclusion that Squarespace and WordPress are some of the better options out there. I want to make a few websites for some small business I am involved in, but I am not sure which would be best. I know Squarespace is pretty straight forward while WordPress takes time, but is more customizable and flexible. I also heard that WordPress comes with a lot of security issues. Any opinions on this and which would be best for me in the long term?
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WordPress would be best for long term. Squarespace is very costly compared to wordpress
It really depends on the type of business, the functionality, and the integrations needed. Don’t be scared off by anyone telling you WP has security issues 1) you can thwart the vast majority of them by putting it behind Cloudflare 2) there are great security plugins you can install that will protect from basic threats too (Bulletproof and Securi are good options)
If your sites are super basic (ie. marketing landing pages) Squarespace might be fine. If you plan on doing CRM integrations, want to do A/B testing, or need some advanced functionality like a membership or course content management then WordPress is probably a better option.
WordPress can be cheap if you need it to be, because there’s a ton of free resources out there. There’s also a large pool of developers and cheap services you can find as well because so many people use it.
I’ve used WordPress for a long-time and it has always done what I needed. I cannot really speak to Squarespace, but I know people who have run businesses with it, and I’ve heard their service isn’t great and you can run into odd issues with the site (you don’t control the back-end and any dev you hire won’t have access to the back-end either – critical for any type of customization of functionality if you’re building long-term serious business sites).
WordPress will prob require a bit more effort upfront though. There are some hosts where you can get one-click WP installers to make the setup easier, and they may even provide some free themes (check out WPEngine). At that point it’ll be about as easy as Squarespace.
Shoot me a message if you have any specific questions.