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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Square Online

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ASquare Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It can be utilized for building standard websites or specialized webpages for online stores.

    $13

    per month

    WordPress

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AWordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.

    $3

    per month 6 GB storage

    Pricing
    Square OnlineWordPress
    Editions & Modules
    Personal
    $13
    per month
    Professional
    $16
    per month
    Performance
    $29
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Free
    Personal
    $4
    per month 6 GB storage
    Premium
    $8
    per month 13 GB storage
    Business
    $25
    per month 50 GB storage
    Commerce
    $45
    per month 50 GB storage
    Enterprise
    Contact for pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Square OnlineWordPress
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing decreases when paid annually: Personal - $10/Month Professional - $12/Month Performance - $26/MonthPricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.
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    Community Pulse
    Square OnlineWordPress
    Considered Both Products
    Block, Inc (Square)
    Chose Square Online
    This is a much easier platform for web editing. You very rarely need to use HTML codes for anything. It's all drag and drop. WordPress is integrated with GoDaddy. Using that program will make you mad after using Weebly. I am sure WordPress offers more in the line of design, but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    I selected Weebly because I thought their themes weren't as janky as WordPress. I also like their price structure and overall easiness of maintaining the app. It also syncs with other applications that I use, like Hatchbuck. I like the support and reliability of Weebly so far …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly's designs, plugins, and customization options are a little more advanced in some cases than other similar programs. WordPress requires a different level of expertise and knowledge of code, keywording, and plugins, so I wouldn't even compare them. Wix is a little more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly is very intuitive and practical to use software, though prices of ".com" domains are too high they are presenting quality service to create and edit your site on the way you want. I used WordPress and Squarespace myself for my blog, they are also reasonable and good …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Firstly, especially the design difference was shown among them. Weebly has the most modern design. The the second difference is the simplicity, besides other ones also have drag and drop feature, Workflow is completely different. Weebly is ultimately easy to set up, navigate …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    I tried WordPress and Blogger.

    • WordPress: a bit more complicated to use and not as user-friendly. I tried it 2 years ago. Not a fan. It may have improved since then.
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly allows us to do more customized work than WordPress does. This allows us to tell a better, more complete story than we were able to through WordPress and gave us more freedom to put our storyboards that were in our heads to life on the website. It was easier to format …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    WordPress needs to be set up before use, making it less adequate for students. It has a huge userbase and tons of add-ons, but these advantages are not accessible to the beginner.
    Wix is very powerful and easy to use, making it on par with Weebly. But I believe Weebly has a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    WordPress takes time to set up properly, needs hosting and always has security issues. Drupal is getting more and more complicated every year. Again, hosting a Drupal installation is a security headache. Weebly, being a hosted solution, completed does away with the need to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly is great for early-stage beginners with no website building experience but with a solid foundation of basic computer skills. If you like to explore and learn, I would highly recommend taking more time and researching/learning WordPress instead as they have so many themes …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Squarespace is an underpowered and less-intuitive version of Weebly, which requires your customers go to site.Squarespace.com to finish the checkout process. This is absolutely unacceptable and I would never recommend anyone use them because of this alone, so no other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Overall, Weebly is a fantastic app to integrate into the classroom or school setting. I usually give students an option when designing web pages/websites and Weebly is often the choice. However, when it comes to pure blogging and older students learning how to track their …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Square Online is a lot like the other quick build e-commerce systems out there (such as Wix and Weebly). It helps you get online quickly, neatly, and with very minimal overhead. We specifically used it as a checkout method from some targeted landing pages teaching customers …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly is easier to use than these platforms. One can easily create stylish looking websites without needing to type even a single line of code. We find Weebly super easy to use and they also provide a code editor which is usually not present in the similar website creators. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Wix doesn't have the ease of use that Weebly has. I get more frustrated using that when I need specific items.

    Instapage has many SEO limitations and I don't feel like my SEO efforts are fully utilized within the platform they offer.
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly is the easiest to use and most robust platform I've found so far. It has its downsides relative to the other ones, like a limited number of templates, and not being great for e-commerce or blogging. It's really a matter of figuring out what's right for your business in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    We used Weebly because the online sales platform for GoDaddy at the time was WAY too complicated, and truthfully, we could not figure out to use it. Weebly really worked for us because of how easy and intuitive it was for the user. That was a really big selling point for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly is still one of my favorite web builder software which means they continue to modify the platform for simplicity and speed. Weebly has a robust small business, e-commerce upgrade and almost for every type of website. All you have to is create your website quickly using …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    Weebly was always one of the top-rated solutions in the website-builder arena. We had experience with GoDaddy, and were sadly disappointed in the clunkiness and general lack of quality features. We finally chose Weebly over its runner-up, Squarespace, because it was a cheaper …
    Incentivized
    Chose Square Online
    I evaluated Wix, and started building my site. To my horror, I later learned of their horrendous ecosystem strategy. I understand why they do it as a business, but as a user, it drivers me INSANE. They go to great lengths to prevent you from using 3rd party tools. I.e. …
    Incentivized
    Automattic
    Chose WordPress
    WordPress has the most open abilities to change the technical foundations. Whereas, other platforms typically have their own niches of use cases; e.g. focusing on page builders, drag and drop, more static code, themes etc... WordPress offers a bit more flexibilities as it can …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    WordPress was very similar to the others and we mostly chose to use WordPress based on the recommendation of an employee who used the site for building other websites. We were told that it was very user-friendly. which it is, and so we made the decision to stick with a product …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    We only build and support websites on WordPress and Joomla!. In general, WordPress is a good fit for our smaller clients who want to handle all of the maintenance and updates themselves. Our clients with larger and more complex content needs, or more sophisticated …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    WordPress has so many incredible features, it allows users to build a professional website and users can customize the themes even from the front-end and also from the code editor. WordPress plugins are more professional and useful if we compare them with other content …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    I am the biggest fan of WordPress compared to others I've tried because you can further customize and edit your site to your liking. The others feel less intuitive and more cumbersome to update. You need to know more CSS/HTML coding in order to make a change to the other sites. …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    I have used Weebly and local web hosting software, and for a small scale site, they were appropriate. With the size of our online store (over 1,000 products), however, WordPress was the obvious choice! We decided to use WordPress when we opened our store several years ago, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    The two other open source tools, Joomla! and Drupal, were at one time comparable to WordPress but have since been left behind as WP has more developers working on it. Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace are all great platforms for small companies who don't want to spend any attention …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    Squarespace is great to use if you do not want to do any coding and do not particularly care about SEO, but you are paying for convenience. WordPress it is likely you will need to purchase hosting and will want to invest in a theme that you can use as a base of design and …
    Incentivized
    Chose WordPress
    Professionally speaking, Wordpress rises above other similar applications. When working with students I usually recommend WordPress for more of a professional learning experience. Although it may take more time to learn and understand, I explain that the data and site …
    Incentivized
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    Features
    Square OnlineWordPress
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Square Online and WordPress
    Feature
    Square Online
    5.3
    30 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    131 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions5.330 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Square Online and WordPress
    Feature
    Square Online
    6.3
    21 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    107 Ratings
    API6.316 Ratings8.997 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.317 Ratings8.481 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Square Online and WordPress
    Feature
    Square Online
    7.5
    42 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.3
    137 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.735 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness6.738 Ratings7.0123 Ratings
    Admin section7.338 Ratings8.7135 Ratings
    Page templates6.342 Ratings9.0132 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.042 Ratings6.5134 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.341 Ratings9.0133 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.334 Ratings8.7128 Ratings
    Form generator7.335 Ratings9.0106 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Square Online and WordPress
    Feature
    Square Online
    6.7
    39 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.6
    135 Ratings
    Content taxonomy6.725 Ratings8.9115 Ratings
    SEO support7.735 Ratings8.7121 Ratings
    Bulk management7.320 Ratings7.4102 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions5.732 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.329 Ratings9.2124 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Square OnlineWordPress
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (43 ratings)
    8.4
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)