Websitero vs WordPress
WordPress does not give you a website, it gives you a system to administer — core updates, plugin updates, themes, security and backups, indefinitely, whether or not you ever use the power you are maintaining. For a plumber or a bakery that is an unpaid second job with a hacking risk attached. A static site has no admin panel, no plugins and nothing to keep updated.
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Every claim here is something WordPress publishes or that you can check in an afternoon. Nothing on this page is an opinion about them.
A content management system to administer. Core updates, plugin updates, theme updates, security and backups, forever, and it is your name on it.
A finished website. There is nothing to log into, nothing to update and nothing that breaks while you are not looking.
Never stops. Out-of-date plugins are the single most common way small business sites get compromised, and the updates arrive whether you have time or not.
None. Static pages have no admin panel and no plugins, so there is no update treadmill to fall off.
A login page, a database and third-party plugin code you did not write — the standard attack surface, probed automatically, around the clock.
Static files. No login to brute-force, no database to inject, nothing for a bot to find.
Depends on hosting, theme and plugin count, and usually needs caching plugins bolted on to reach what plain static pages do by default.
Fast by construction, with no caching layer needed to make it so.
Hosting, plus premium plugins, plus a theme, plus a monthly maintenance retainer or your own weekends. The build fee is the smallest part of it.
One build fee. Hosting is free, there is nothing to maintain, and there is no retainer.
Days to weeks through an agency, or however many weekends you can give it yourself.
Hours. A preview link usually lands the same day you send your material.
You do, or whoever you can find and pay — an update conflict on a Friday is your problem to solve.
Nothing to break, and 24/7 chat with the developers who built it if anything ever needs changing.
Switching from WordPress
It is less powerful in exactly the ways a local business never uses, and better in every way it does: faster, unhackable in practice, and with nothing to maintain. For a site of five to fifteen pages with a contact form and a blog, that WordPress power is not being used — you are just paying for it in maintenance, security exposure and page speed.
Yes. Both kits include a blog and it is part of the Pro build — posts publish as fast static pages, and on Pro we write and publish them for you. What you give up is an admin panel with thirty pending updates in it.
You message us and we make the change, usually the same day, or you edit the files yourself if you are technical — the code is standard and it is yours. What does not happen is you logging in, updating six plugins, and finding out that one of them has broken the homepage.
We rebuild rather than inherit it, and that almost always costs less than paying someone to untangle a stranger's plugin stack. Send the existing site as your starting document and the content comes across into something with no maintenance burden attached. If you have the code in a git repository, link it on your dashboard and we can work from that directly.
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