Comments on: When WordPress Is Not a Good Solution for Your Website (and Best Alternatives) https://uxmastery.com/when-wordpress-is-not-a-good-solution-for-your-website-and-best-alternatives/ The online learning community for human-centred designers Fri, 06 May 2022 15:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Carlos Camacho https://uxmastery.com/when-wordpress-is-not-a-good-solution-for-your-website-and-best-alternatives/#comment-645088 Fri, 06 May 2022 15:22:20 +0000 https://uxmastery.com/?p=109900#comment-645088 Your alternatives mix Apples and Oranges. Word Press is a blogging platform that people also extend as a CMS. It has plugins available to allow for shopping/eCommerce. The suggestions you make like OpneCart is an eCommerce platform with some basic CMS tools.

So the alternatives for Word Press are…

* One of the many blog/CMS cloud base tools, like WIX you mentioned.
* ExpressionEngine. A rock-solid and very secured PHP-based CMS. Very powerful and basic version is Open Source now.
* CraftCMS. Many folks moved from ExpressionEngine to this platform. Also very very powerful.
* Drupal. Everyone knows it.
* SilverStripe. A CMS/CMS framework from down under.
* ProcessWire. A powerful Open Source PHP CMS.

If you are avoiding Word Press for security reasons, Joomla would not be a recommended pick. It is powerful for a CMS, but also attracts bad plugin devs and hackers.

All the above CMSs have modules/plugins to do eCommerce as well.

Overall, if I was a designer looking for a CMS and I had some PHP skills, I would pick between ExpressionEngine and CraftCMS.

If I didn’t have much skills, I would either pick a cloud-based platform or a flat-file CMS (vs the database driven platforms above.) Flat-file CMSs are pretty easy to set up.

Hope this helps your readers.

Carlos Camacho

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