{"id":5626,"date":"2020-09-14T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T10:13:36","slug":"wix-vs-wordpress-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wix-vs-wordpress-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Wix vs WordPress Builders: How I Created the Same Web Page in Both Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or at least I tried\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Wix vs WordPress, place your bets!<\/span><\/p>\n

True story: I wanted to play with the free versions of the Wix website builder and a WordPress builder and see the end results. I picked Colibri for the task because it lets users build everything in a single interface.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hypothesis: creating the same portfolio page of a photography website (not intended to be pixel perfect).<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see how things turned out in the Wix vs WordPress builders<\/a> battle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Template choosing – Colibri<\/span><\/h2>\n

This is how you can browse through Colibri\u2019s templates:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"choose<\/p>\n

Not a hard one this one, only one photography template to play with.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"choose<\/p>\n

Template choosing – Wix<\/span><\/h2>\n

Wix scores a point here, there are tons of templates to choose from.<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to make my life hard, so I picked out a theme with a masonry grid, to resemble the one from the Colibri template.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"pick<\/p>\n

Wix vs WordPress builders (Colibri): the setup<\/span><\/h2>\n

For Colibri, the left-hand side menu is the \u201cmother of all features\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its structure goes as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n