{"id":4880,"date":"2019-10-23T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T10:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semidotinfotech.com\/blog\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2023-12-28T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T13:17:18","slug":"laravel-vs-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semidotinfotech.com\/blog\/laravel-vs-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should You Choose Laravel Over a CMS Like WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Both content management systems and PHP web development<\/strong><\/a> are widely popular these days. The differences are wide and huge when we must choose between one of them. We will briefly discuss both these ways of development before moving on to why choosing Laravel might be actually better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let\u2019s begin with what Laravel and WordPress are<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is Laravel?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Laravel is an iconic PHP framework of one of the most popular web development languages, PHP. PHP truly enables a new world of web development by making full use of HTML and CSS. So, you can essentially change everything what so ever when developing through the Laravel development solution<\/a><\/strong>. Laravel is based on PHP and helps make web development easier and smoother while keeping it as customizable as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is WordPress?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

WordPress is\nwidely divided into two parts, Wordpess.com and WordPress.org.\nWordPress.com is usually the choice of those who are looking forward\nto running a small blog and don\u2019t know much about coding.\nWordPress.com also serves the large-scale business, through its\nexcellent hosting which is included with the VIP plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WordPress.org is\na different story altogether, you have to get the hosting on your\nown, and you own the website and its rights, instead of WordPress.\nYou can customize it to any level, without any restrictions on the\ncode or styling. This option is the most viable for medium to large\nscale companies, with a great hosting it will be much better than\neven WordPress VIP service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that we have a basic idea, let us now begin\nwith a comparison of Laravel and WordPress.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Ease of use<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you are at the beginning, you would be astonished by how tough it is to work with Laravel compared to WordPress.com. At the same time, WordPress will look like a breeze, you won\u2019t even have thought about hiring a web development company<\/a><\/strong>. The fact that you will require a fair knowledge of Object-oriented Programming to work with Laravel stands tall. Laravel is highly customizable for ensuring you get just what you are looking for. If you aren\u2019t going to pay at least 5000$ per month if your site grows exponentially, you will have to switch to Laravel for customization and cost-saving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WordPress might\nlook easy in the beginning but working with it when your project\ngrows is a pain. It gets slow, your limited customization options\npayout in the worse ways possible, and the functionalities you can\nadd squares down to nothing. The whole WordPress was never meant to\nbe just a CMS, you can see how hard it is trying through plugins. But\nwe need to accept the fact, over 30% of all world\u2019s websites run on\nWordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Long term viability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As we discussed\nin the previous point, you will need to switch or pay a lot, if your\nuser base exceeds a million. The problem with WordPress is, it is\nopen source, and to earn money, charges a minimum of $5000 per month\nif you want the VIP services. You expect you would get the most out\nof such kind of money right, you are absolutely wrong. The tough\nconditions and low customizability prevail throughout the website\neven if you take the VIP plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many\naspects to a website when you are serving a million users, you need\nto take care of the smallest details. And guess what? With WordPress,\nyou won’t be able to customize it according to your needs, or with\nminimum effort to say the least. Websites like Facebook and Spotify\ndo run on it, so you may too very well run your website on it. The\nblazing fast speed and 24\/7 support are two upsides of using\nWordPress VIP. Which also are very important when we consider long\nterm viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laravel on the other hand, gives you everything you need, right in its core functionalities. You may choose a hosting of your own to ensure you get the same blazing fast speed and uptime as WordPress\u2019s. But, you either need to find a good team of developers, or a top PHP development company<\/a> <\/strong>to make the development project smooth and scalable. You might wonder why you wouldn\u2019t be able to do it all on your own, like with WordPress to some extent. With the extreme customizability of Laravel, comes the need to start with rock bottom, which will be a lot of work at the beginning of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Laravel<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3. Availability of developers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You would easily find both Laravel developers<\/a><\/strong> and WordPress developers<\/strong><\/a>, but the problem would be to find the perfect ones. With WordPress, if you are aiming higher than what people usually seek, you are going to have a hard time. The thing with every developer is that they seek more to learn when they reach the ceiling, and WordPress has a ceiling too low. But however, you may always find some veterans who dived straight in and never gave up on WordPress after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Laravel, you\nwill find all sorts of developers, all across domains. That is for\nthe fact that PHP has been one of the most loved languages, and\nLaravel it\u2019s the most popular framework. But, to find good\ndevelopers is such a hard task, and it doesn\u2019t get any better with\nLaravel developers. But of course, the number of developers available\nsure makes a huge difference, but there always are, PHP development\ncompanies to take charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Scalability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There is a real\ndivision of ideologies here, Laravel is, to be honest, scalable to\nany level whatsoever. While WordPress with its VIP program can handle\n10s of millions of users with the utmost ease. The effort is to\ndevelop such a web app is more through Laravel, than to develop it\nthrough WordPress. But it doesn\u2019t come without consequences,\ndeveloping a web app through WordPress means very very few options of\ncustomizations. We believe the WordPress VIP program is just about\nthe money, suppose you are a tech giant and your main focus is making\na website with 0 downtimes that could handle millions of users, then\nthis should be your choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nIf you are really counting on your business to serve purposes not\nachievable without customization, Laravel is the way to go. Also,\nWordPress bounds you in many ways, adding features and changing them\nis certainly the most important. A project like this will cost more\nto create in the beginning but will cost a lot less in the long term.\nSo, in the end, there is no limit to scalability in both of these,\nbut what remains is the level of depth you want to achieve. Think of\nit in a way that you can only add something special which the\ncompetition can\u2019t when you go ahead and customize your project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For very small businesses, WordPress is the go-to choice, because of its sheer simplicity. For the business that may have a chance of facing competition, the only things that will make them stand out are the level of wit they show while getting their web app developed. This simply translates to having some room for specific customizations, which WordPress web development<\/strong><\/a> doesn\u2019t offer at all. Laravel will stand out as the best option to use in this kind of operation, to make your app truly stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you cross\nthe minimum threshold, it\u2019s all a fair fight between Laravel and\nWordPress. We have already discussed how different metrics would\ndiffer when you choose either of them and how Laravel will be better.\nWe stand in the middle, as we develop apps through both Laravel and\nWordPress, according to what the users demands, and what they\nactually need. If you are still confused, you can send us your\nrequirements, we will recommend the best for you. We will send you a\nlong-term plan along with a comparison of both Laravel and WordPress\nfor your project. We wish you luck with your future endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both content management systems and PHP web development are widely popular these days. The differences are wide and huge when we must choose between one of them. 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