If you’ve heard of Wix, it’s probably through their massive advertising campaigns that include A-list movie stars, pyrotechnics and million-dollar budgets. You will have an idea of their platform as fast, fun and flashy. In a way, they’re quite like the Apple of web builders. The one for the cool kids.

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WordPress.org, on the other hand, would be more like Windows. A popular content management system, albeit one that favors nerds and coders who can do amazing things with it. Well, while there is a small element of truth to these ideas, we’ll see that they don’t always hold up. Hopefully, our complete breakdown below will help you see which solution is best to build a website, without any technical jargon, or explosive marketing tactics.

Please note that there is also WordPress.com. This article focuses on the open-source version WordPress.org. Learn more about the differences between both systems here.

We at Techfuzzy run websites on both WordPress and Wix. In fact, the website you are on right now is powered by WordPress and we are convinced that we made the right call. However, not all projects are created equal. My personal website robertbrandl.com, for example, which is a relatively small blog, runs on Wix. Read on to learn why.

What’s the difference between the two?

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Lately though, it does seem like Wix has been trying to move more into WordPress’s territory and establish itself as a performance-focused site builder – especially if recent (unsuccessful) marketing campaigns are anything to go by. The introduction of features such as CMS-like dynamic pages, and advanced development tools such as Wix Editor X and Wix Velo, are further proof of this. However, WordPress is still by far the more powerful platform of the two, and we don’t see this changing any time soon.

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