Weebly vs WordPress - similar goals, different approaches

Weebly is a drag-and-drop website builder focused on eCommerce. WordPress is a content management system, allowing you to make websites of any kind. They’re so fundamentally different from one another that comparing Weebly vs WordPress is not a straightforward task.

Weebly offers an intuitive drag-and-drop website building experience, which is restrictive but right off the bat seems suitable for beginners. It’s straightforward, and setting everything up takes just a few minutes.

In contrast, WordPress gives you much more design flexibility, which can be both a blessing and a curse. It is a much more suitable option to make a website that is truly what you need. Every single thing about the website can be edited to its core – but the learning curve will be much more challenging.

In this Weebly vs WordPress comparison, we’ll see which one of the platforms is more suitable for you and your needs. Let’s compare the two platforms in terms of pricing, ease of use, templates, and overall features, and see what’s what.

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🪄 Ease of use:	Extremely easy to use	A pretty steep learning curve, made easier by plenty of great resources	Very simple to use
🎨 Templates:	150+ modern templates	Okay selection of free templates, massive premium third-party template library	60+ simple templates
🏢 Business features:	eCommerce functionality, analytic tools, SEO settings	All brought in by the plugins that you use – some of them cost extra	Good in-house eCommerce
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Now, the fun part – let’s see how they compare in depth.

Weebly vs WordPress for different sites

Website type	WordPress	Weebly
Blog	Everything about the platform was made for effortless blogging.	An unintuitive editor, which doesn’t allow you to add headings to your texts – bad for SEO.
Portfolio site	Offers more options for a creation of a beautiful portfolio.	A limited number of themes suited for portfolios, editor suited mostly for beginners.
Business site	Has a great blogging editor as well as additional tools for marketing.	Has most core elements needed for business.
eCommerce site	Incredible plugins that make eCommerce easy.	Best for an eCommerce site, with add-ons and tools offered.

Pricing – how to not go over your budget?

Both WordPress.org and Weebly can be pretty affordable.

At first glance, Weebly might seem more expensive than WordPress. The premium plans will include features such as premium themes, SEO tools, free domain, as well as advanced marketing and eCommerce tools.

However, WordPress can truly give you the best of both worlds, being both cheaper and more expensive than Weebly. The price depends on the fact that it’s not free to manage – you’ll need to pay for server hosting as well as cover some additional costs.

Let me explain this:

Weebly plans

Weebly’s pricing structure is pretty clear. There is one (very limited) free plan available, and 4 premium ones. The more you pay, the more features you unlock.

Plan	Features	Price
Free	Website on Weebly’s subdomain, Weebly ads displayed, 500MB storage	Free
Connect	Possibility to connect your own domain, free SSL security, basic marketing features	$6.00/month
Pro	Weebly ads removed, unlimited storage, advanced site-building features, eCommerce (25 items, 3% transaction fee)	$12.00/month
Business	Better eCommerce features (unlimited items, no transaction fee), advanced eCommerce insights	$25/month
Business Plus	All features above, plus a real-time shipping calculator, and abandoned cart emails	$38/month

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Now, let’s look at these plans in greater detail.

The Free plan is, as you can guess from the name, completely free. But is it worth your time? This plan comes with:

• a limited selection of themes,
• 500MB of storage
• Weebly-branded domain name
• Weebly’s ads on your website.

The free plan won’t let you do much. With limited functionality, few features, and Weebly’s branding at all places, it’s not a good pick for your business.

The Connect plan costs $6.00 a month ($60/year). While it is cheap, is it any good? This plan gives you:

• access to premium themes
• option to add your own custom domain

The Connect plan still has storage limitations and Weebly branding as does the Free plan. I don’t see many advantages here, so I wouldn’t recommend this one either.

The Pro plan costs $12.00 a month ($144/year). And here’s where it gets better. Compared to previous plans, this one offers:

• no Weebly branding on the site
• eCommerce capabilities
• advanced site stats
• 3% transaction fee

While it is better than the previous ones, that is very obviously reflected by the price, I recommend it only for personal websites. For online businesses, looking to sell online, I still don’t recommend it. Avoid this plan like the plague, because why would you pay transaction fees on top of the plan you’ve purchased?

The Business plan costs $25 a month ($300/year) and it is way better for selling. This plan:

• removes the commission fee
• adds additional eCommerce stats
• offers extra eCommerce features, such as coupon codes and gift cards

Because of the transaction fee being removed, this is a way better option than the previous plan, despite it also having eCommerce functionality.

The Business Plus plan costs $38 a month ($456/year) with two additional features:

• abandoned cart emails
• real-time shipping calculator

While it only offers two additional features for $13 extra, they’re there for you to make your money back. I feel like these features are able to keep returning customers since the ability to choose from several custom-priced shipping options might seem very appealing.

WordPress plans

Now, when it comes to WordPress, it has a more complex pricing structure than Weebly. It is a content management system (CMS) that is technically free to download and use. But there are lots of additional costs that could make it a very pricey option.

Here’s what you will need to get a WordPress website up and ready:

• Domain name – around $10 a year.
• Hosting – budget plans range between $30 and $60 a year.
• (OPTIONAL) Custom templates and themes – the most popular options range between $30 and $100.
• (OPTIONAL) Plugins – range extensively, depending on what additional features you want your website to have.
• (OPTIONAL) Developer fee – if you’re not confident in your own website-building skills, you might need to hire help to code your website.

Out of all these things, only domain name and hosting are mandatory to publish your own WordPress website. The combination of hosting and domains running WordPress can cost from nothing to hundreds of dollars a month. Read about our recommended WordPress Hosting, if you want to learn more.

Here’s a helpful table with possible hosting combinations that you can look into.

Combinations	Description
000webhost + Domain	This is a free hosting platform that allows you to connect a custom domain. A domain costs around $10-15 a year ($1 a month). However, all free web hosting platforms have several issues – they’re slow, have limited storage, are covered with the host's ads, and most importantly are generally unsafe.
Hostinger + Domain	A great and not too expensive premium host. Hostinger costs around $35 a year for a 12-month plan. With a custom domain, the price rises to $45-50 a year (around $4 a month).
Bluehost + Domain	A WordPress-centered provider. Costs anywhere between $60 and $250 a year ($5-20 a month). The price depends on how many sites and visitors you're planning to have.
WPEngine + Domain	A professional WordPress host for big projects and businesses. The price is respectively bigger – plans range between $300 and $3,000 a year ($25-250 a month).

As you can see, there are some free options for hosting and domain names. However, free hosting and free domains simply lack the quality required for you to have a respectable-looking website. Your domain name won’t be safe, and your website will be slow, as well as pretty frustrating to use.

So, what are the good budget hosting and domain options out there?

Generally, I feel like one of the better picks for beginner WordPress users is Hostinger. Hostinger’s WordPress-optimized plans start at $1.99/month (price increases to $3.99 when you renew). Additionally, .com domains on the platform start at $8.99 a month. It would be a great choice that would help you make a professional website. Options like Bluehost and WPEngine are also pretty good: but they are also a bit more expensive.

Furthermore, there are other additional costs you have to take in when choosing WordPress. While I talked about the costs of running your WordPress site in terms of hosting, you have to keep in mind that as an open-source platform, WordPress only has the core elements. So, it doesn’t have many exceptional website designs or marketing features.

For that, you'll need to use plugins, but a lot of them may cost money. There could either be a competent free plan and some premium features, asking for a one-time payment, or all premium plans. In this case, it’s extremely important to budget – all these additional features can round up to a hefty price.

As for templates, there are some decent free options too, but the best designs are paid. Usually, a one-time fee of $20-100.

So there you have – WordPress can be very cheap, with no premium options and cheap hosting, but it can get really expensive really quickly.

All in all, Weebly has a far simpler pricing structure compared to WordPress. The $12 Pro plan includes a free domain, premium themes, and built-in eCommerce capabilities. WordPress can be cheaper from the get-go: but with premium themes, renewal prices, and other possible expenses, you may very quickly go over budget.

Weebly vs WordPress – case study

Now, let’s put Weebly and WordPress to a test. For this comparison, we made websites with both platforms. Because, you know, only this way I was able to get a legitimate, informed look at how these platforms behave.

To see how we did, simply click the images of the sites below.

Here’s the site we made with Weebly:

And here’s the site we made using WordPress:

Now, let’s see how my experience has gone:

Ease of use – experiences with both builders

• Weebly is a simple to use drag and drop builder which lets you move elements around, however, it doesn’t have too many elements to play around with.
• WordPress is more complicated, yet it has limitless customization abilities

Weebly is renowned for being one of the simplest web builders in the industry. And on the surface, its drag-and-drop style seems a lot less complicated than WordPress’s sandbox and plugin format. But is this really the case? Let’s take a closer look and compare Weebly vs WordPress in terms of ease of use.

Getting started with Weebly

Weebly aims to make the process of building your website as simple as possible. And oh, it succeeds. If you want to read more in-depth about this, read our extensive Weebly review.

Nevertheless, immediately after registering, you’ll be asked what kind of a website you wish to make: a regular one, or one with an online store.

Then, you’ll be offered to pick one of the available themes…

And after choosing your domain or subdomain, you’ll be good to go!

All the required things to build and manage the website will be available instantly. Weebly makes it easy to add images, change text and add tools to enhance your website. Most of the tools are only available if you sign up for a paid plan. However, you are constrained by your theme, so you can’t drop these elements wherever you want.

The dashboard will include a simple setup guide, and the side menu gives access to all the main features: website editor, marketing, eCommerce, analytics, and general settings.

Thanks to Weebly’s simple drag-and-drop format, you can build a website in a matter of minutes. You don’t need any coding skills. All you need to do is pick a theme and you can begin building your website.

If you are a beginner or need a website made quickly, Weebly is definitely the right choice.

Getting started with WordPress

WordPress is not as easy to use as Weebly. Namely because of the more complicated setup process. If you feel confused, read our WordPress review for more details. Nonetheless, once you sign up with the hosting provider of your choice, you’ll need to install WordPress yourself.

Luckily, many hosting providers (in this case, Hostinger) include a pretty simple way to do it. The “Auto-installer” option on the hosting dashboard allows you to quickly install it.

After selecting your preferred option, you only need to choose a domain to install WordPress to, choose your login details, and click “Install” once more.

A quick setup will follow, and soon, you’ll find a new menu on your hosting account menu, that allows to access your WordPress dashboard.

Here, you’ll have to choose “Dashboard”.

On the right of the dashboard, there's an option to finally edit your website.

Depending on your hosting provider, you will get a different variety of pre-installed plugins and tools. In the dashboard, you’ll be able to use the side menu to add and edit posts, as well as manage plugins, themes, and settings.

WordPress gives you complete freedom to build each page exactly the way you want it. It isn’t as fast or easy as Weebly and you might want to be able to do some basic coding to get the best results.

Or – you could just rely on third-party plugins. There are nearly 60,000 of those, and they cover just about any niche and topic you can imagine. This is where all the customization power is hidden.

Now, taking in everything said about ease of use, it seems both builders have something to offer. Using Weebly, you need to jump through far fewer hoops to do the same actions. However, while WordPress has a bigger learning curve, it's not too difficult once you get used to it, and the customization process is a lot freer.

You have to choose what you’d prefer – being tied to your theme but having an easier to understand interface with Weebly, or having complete control over customization but a bigger learning curve with WordPress.

Templates – first-party and third-party options

• With WordPress, you can use thousands of constantly updated third party templates
• Weebly doesn’t have many templates of its own and the third party options haven’t been updated in years

Both Weebly and WordPress offer a fair amount of built-in themes, as well as allow you to use third-party options, opening many more opportunities to have a seriously good-looking website. And this is where WordPress, compared to Weebly, shines especially bright: its third-party selections are very appealing.

Weebly

Weebly offers users more than 80 free templates and themes. You can search for themes by categories and you can customize the templates with either a drag-and-drop or a basic code editor.

Overall, the themes are rather simple but quite visually pleasing. The one demonstrated here was yoga-related, but it can serve as a helpful canvas to just about any type of business.

And if the selection provided does not please you, you may look around and find some interesting third-party options.

This is a great option, however, Weebly is not as popular as it was several years ago, so fewer independent designers are making templates for this builder. Currently, if you were to look at templates offered, you would see plenty of themes that haven’t been updated since 2017.

Nonetheless, they will cost around $50 for a template and can serve as a pretty good alternative to Weebly’s own options.

As you can see, there isn’t a lot to say about the templates that Weebly offers. It’s a bit sad that there aren’t any bold designs – Weebly makes everything subtle and functional. The templates look fairly modern and have some appealing elements, but lack quite a lot of customization.

WordPress

WordPress is the best out there when it comes to custom themes. And this Weebly vs WordPress comparison is no exception. In the dashboard, you’ll find countless available themes. They can be filtered by subject, features, or general layout.

But the real fun begins once you leave the dashboard, and search for the themes online.

There’s a massive third-party market, revealing literally thousands of free, freemium, and premium options.

For instance, ThemeForest, one of the top premium WordPress theme options out there, has over 11,000 options alone.

They are quite diverse: you can choose from a wide variety of templates, fitted for specific types of business or design types. The prices are pretty wide, too: you can get a solid theme for $20-30, the most common price point hovering around $50.

Some of the themes will even automatically include some editing tools, in order to help you build your website just a little bit more efficiently.

WordPress offers more choice and better design flexibility than Weebly. Mind you, Weebly is no slouch: but this is WordPress’s forte, and no one catches up here.

Business features – making money from your site

• Both website builders offer a range of both first-party and third-party tools for business.
• Weebly lacks some features, but most core elements can be found.
• WordPress has an incredible blogging editor as well as great additional tools for marketing and eCommerce.

If you're thinking whether to choose WordPress or Weebly for business – we've compared features such as selling, blogging, marketing, and optimizing content to rank higher on search engines. Let's see what's what.

Weebly vs WordPress eCommerce

When it comes to setting up an online shop, both Weebly and WordPress offer the essential features. Weebly markets itself as an eCommerce solution and provides in-house tools and some additional options, meanwhile, WordPress focuses entirely on third-party apps

Let’s see what Weebly offers first, shall we?

Weebly

One look at Weebly’s dashboard and you already know why it markets itself as a great option for eCommerce – all the main features needed for it are nicely presented in the menu on the left.

The item management interface is quite minimalist, and here you can also set up and manage some of the basic eCommerce features as well.

When it comes to adding items to your site, Weebly pretends to forget its drag-and-drop design freedom and makes you choose one of the four layouts of how your products will be added.

And if you’re reading this and thinking “Hey, this is not enough for me!”, I have to reassure you that this isn’t everything that Weebly offers. Weebly has a very eye-catching third-party integration store. Here you can choose additional features that are not on the main suite, such as dropshipping, print-on-demand, and others.

When it comes to payment options, Weebly offers access to Stripe, Square, and PayPal Express. Stripe is meant for worldwide selling, PayPal Express is more suited for donations, and Square introduces various features of their own, such as point-on-sale and instantly accepting credit cards.

All of these options will charge a 2.9% + 30c fee, on all plans.

I think it is pretty prominent that Weebly tries to simplify everything as much as possible. Unfortunately, the simplicity might not be enough for more established companies.

WordPress

Now, let’s look at the other side of the coin – WordPress.

Surprise, surprise – plugins are necessary for eCommerce here. Don’t groan yet, because WordPress has a massive plugin library where quite a lot of them are made for eCommerce.

Despite the many options offered, WordPress offers WooCommerce, which is the most popular plugin for eCommerce. It is pretty well known for its ease of use and flexibility.

And while it is known for several reasons besides this one, I really enjoyed seeing just how guided the setup process was. In the beginning, I got asked questions about my store and the products I was planning on selling.

And then, I was face to face with one of the more stirring WooCommerce limitations.

As we all know, both WordPress and WooCommerce are free, but advanced platform features can cost extra. This shouldn't come as a surprise – as WordPress itself is free, various developers will try to monetize certain features of their products.

• Selling subscriptions and memberships – $16.58 a month
• Bookings – $20.75 a month
• Bundles and customizable products – $4.08 a month

Then, a helpful guide that I just can’t stop gushing about, was showcased to help you mind the most important tasks that you have to do in order to properly set up your store.

After that, I was able to edit all of my product descriptions with a similar editor to WordPress.

Impressively, WooCommerce has over 70 options available for payments. WooCommerce Payments, the gateway built by the platform itself, seems like the easiest option of all offered – it includes Apple Pay and card detail saving features. The fees here mirror Weebly’s – at 2.9%+0.30c for each transaction.

I mean, we can all see that WooCommerce isn’t perfect. The transaction fees, the additional payments for more interesting features to add to your site… It all can add up. However, I feel like it’s worth reminding you that Weebly also takes additional transaction fees for selling, as well as it doesn’t offer any guides for selling.

Both Weebly and WordPress seem to be pretty good options for eCommerce. It is worth noting that neither of them will be completely painless for beginners.

SEO and blogging

Is it a surprise to anyone that blogging and SEO are vital to the success of your website? Both Weebly and WordPress offer a range of solutions to help you share content and optimize your search appearance.

When comparing Weebly vs WordPress SEO features, we can see that WordPress is a blogging juggernaut, with some powerful plugins to match. Weebly, on the other hand, mostly focuses on eCommerce and loses its focus on blogging.

But that’s a lot of talk with no show. Let’s see how this looks in real life.

Weebly has some blogging capabilities – but it’s no match to what WordPress can offer.

Let’s start off by saying that if you don’t like that drag-and-drop feature that Weebly offers, I have some bad news for you. When it comes to blogging, you have to use a quite unusual editor that also drops elements on your page.

Is it annoying? Personally, I was a little bit annoyed – but to each their own, right?

Either way, Weebly offers other SEO features to help boost your website’s search rankings, such as page titles and descriptions. Even though they’re not the best for SEO, at least it’s something.

But you know what Weebly doesn’t offer? Headings. Yup, you read that right, your SEO customization won’t be complete without headings, and to get them you have to buy a third-party app.

I’ll spoil the joy of reading this article, but I want to tell you in advance that WordPress, even though you have to purchase a ton of plugins for other stuff, at least gives you headings.

Apart from that, when it comes to individual blog posts Weebly has built some tools into the site. It is possible to edit quite a lot of stuff on each page, such as changing the author or categories (yet, still no ability to change headings!)

You can also edit the site as a whole:

You can also add Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and custom URLs.

However, I feel like this is not a very beginner-friendly approach. When looking into this, I missed seeing guides for beginners, I feel like that would’ve made this editor way better. After all, ease of use is very much Weebly's biggest draw against WordPress, right?

Speaking of which, let’s see how WordPress compares.

WordPress is the blogging champion: after all, it’s a platform that was made specifically for blogging. No, it’s no surprise to see it having a very solid blogging interface, that will allow you to comfortably write and edit even the most elaborate of posts.

In WordPress, you have complete control over how your blog post is going to be. It is possible to change headings, add internal links and even include shortcodes. Unlike Weebly, these features are already implemented in the text editor, so no third-party apps are needed. Either way, these additions help to get the look and feel of a very professional business website.

Edging forward, WordPress’s SEO is almost flawless because of the sheer number of plugins that help maximize your SEO potential.

Our favorite SEO plugin WordPress has to offer is Yoast SEO. Yoast scans for potential SEO issues and helps you craft page titles, moreover, it even picks keywords that will rank well on Google.

In this case, as you probably can guess already, you’ll also need to pay for premium features. These features include internal linking suggestions, optimizing content for multiple keywords, additional content insights, and more.

That’ll cost $89 for one website and I’m happy to announce that there are no recurring fees here.

Combining this plugin with their incredible blogging interface, WordPress makes SEO very beginner-friendly.

I think it’s clear that the winner here is WordPress. It gives you a lot more functionality, and Yoast is one of the best SEO tools we’ve tested. Weebly is fine for SEO but WordPress’s open-source model gives you far more options.

Email marketing

I think it is pretty important to talk about how WordPress vs Weebly compare when it comes to email marketing. It’s one of the easiest ways to reach your customers, isn’t it?

Well, right off the bat, the marketing features that Weebly offers are based on emails. The platform offers this quite neat product called Promote, which not only suggests what emails to send to my subscribers…

...but also presents a lovely email builder tool. It’s also very similar to the website builder tool. So if you had no problems with that one, you’ll love playing around here.

But, oh how sad I am to tell you that this feature costs extra... The free plan of this tool only lets you send out 500 emails a month and set up 2 marketing campaigns.

If this isn’t enough for you I’ll give you time to search for your wallet, because the premium plan, which costs anywhere from $8 to $75 a month, is required.

Moving right along to WordPress, where plugins (I feel like I’m starting to bore you) are required to do email marketing.

But hey, there are plenty of options you can choose from for email marketing. In this case, I’ve decided to choose Creative Mail simply because it is one of the top-rated options.

Now, when I found out that I need to pay extra here, I wasn’t surprised. It’s a third-party plugin that isn’t supported monetarily by WordPress. In this case, Weebly surprised me when their own tool offered very strict limitations and asked to purchase a rather expensive plan.

Creative Mail lets to do up to 5,000 monthly emails free of charge, which is a pretty solid offer. Paid plans offer bigger email limits, WooCommerce-specific automation options, plus other features for growing businesses.

To do email marketing with both builders, you’ll need to pay extra. However, the tools offered are quite nice and provide a decent result.

Overall, when it comes to business features offered by both website builders, WordPress triumphs over Weebly.

WordPress’s blogging and SEO features with the right plugins are unmatched, as well as the eCommerce setup process is presented with helpful guides. Weebly complies harder and doesn’t give too many helpful options for SEO as well as their eCommerce section seems to be a bit lacking.

Customer support

If you have any questions when building a website, it’s good to know that you can always ask for customer support. Let’s compare how these builders offer their help.

Weebly offers its clients an extensive Help area. It’s complete with an FAQ section, video tutorials, and guides. However, if you run into a problem where you can’t find an answer to your question, customers who chose a Pro plan or higher can access live chat, email support, and even a phone line (Monday - Sunday: 6 AM - 6 PM US Pacific Time).

On WordPress, there is no dedicated support. All the server-related problems can be fixed by contacting your hosting provider, but as far as building and managing your site goes, you’re on your own. Luckily, there’s a massive community of users that offers plenty of help.

You can find plenty of sites and platforms offering top-class WordPress help, and WordPress itself even has a knowledge base, including various guides and tutorials.

It won’t help you to the extent of a dedicated customer support team, but there will be just enough information to do manual troubleshooting and try to solve the issues yourself.

When it comes to business features, WordPress excels drastically. While Weebly offers some basic eCommerce, in-house tools and customer support, it's no match to the well-developed blogging features and third-party tools WordPress offers.

Performance – one good, one better

The final test of today will be on performance. I will be looking at both of these platforms and compare them on the loading speed.

To test them, I used the GTMetrix platform that measures the overall speed of the site and platform optimization.

Here’s how Weebly did:

Aaaand here’s how WordPress performed (hosted on Hostinger):

Let’s see how these options compare.

Both websites loaded in under 3 seconds, which is Google’s recommended standard for a business website performance.

Weebly loads the largest portion of the website in 2 seconds, which isn’t that bad.

WordPress, when used with Hostinger, loaded the largest portion of the website in just under a second. So, in this case, WordPress is faster, but you definitely are the master of your faith – as it is very important to note that WordPress’s results heavily depend on the hosting provider that you pick. It’s crucial to use a fast hosting provider as well as well-optimized media to get the best performance results.

For you to get a feel of what I mean, here’s a site we also made with WordPress. It’s very simple – no links, no images, nada. It uses a random free hosting provider and WordPress’s own template.

As you can see, the results are drastically different. The performance is worse and while the loading time is still under 3 seconds, you have to remember that this site is completely empty, while the latter test site has eCommerce implemented.

So, Weebly is pretty fast. Meanwhile, WordPress can be both really fast, and really quite slow – all depends on you.

All in all, both websites function well. Weebly offers pretty solid performance results, and WordPress, when paired with a good provider, is an excellent choice for fast optimization.

Weebly vs WordPress – final side-by-side comparison

Weebly and WordPress are actually a pretty far cry from each other, I would even say that typing out this side-by-side comparison makes me feel like I’m comparing apples and oranges.

But let’s take a look at the chart of comparisons once again and I’ll tell you a bit more about these builders.

	WordPress	Weebly
Rating	4 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆	3.9 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Pricing	Differing from free to thousands of dollars a month	Free plan available, eCommerce plans start at $12 a month
Ease of Use	A simple site editing interface, some slight pains in the setup process	Pretty easy to learn drag-and-drop editor
Templates	A massive first and third-party template library	80+ free templates
Business Features	Flexible, first-party and third-party tools, as well as integrations, are available	Favorable eCommerce features
Performance	Depends strongly on your hosting provider	Solid real-life performance
Website	WordPress.org	Weebly.com

These two platforms are quite different in how they help you make a website.

Weebly is an all-inclusive service, combining a domain name, templates, editing tools, and server hosting in one neat package. It’s also appealing that going to their website to finishing a website of your own won’t take much time.

On the other hand, when it comes to basically anything else, Weebly is a bit lackluster. You simply don't get all that much customization or features.

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WordPress, however, is open-source software, meaning that to use it, you’ll need to purchase a hosting plan and download the software on your hosting dashboard. You get full freedom in where you buy your hosting and domain from – but because of that, the overall process of setting up your website is a little more complicated.

Nonetheless, the features that this builder offers through plugins are absolutely incredible, no matter what you might need them for – eCommerce, SEO, Marketing, all of them have helpful guides, making them easy for beginners and immaculate for intermediate users.

Visit WordPress.org

Ultimately, Weebly is a great solution if you want a simple website. WordPress is amazing if you want a very professional website that you can be sure of has everything you need.

While Weebly tries to simplify everything as much as possible, WordPress lets you figure it out on your own and tailor everything to your needs.

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