[wimagguc]

Trying to decide between these:

(a) Wordpress (b) SquareSpace (c) https://strapi.io/ (d) https://prismic.io/ (e) https://www.contentful.com/

The output will be a simple website, we already have all pages in HTML, and from the tech perspective we could use any of the above.

What I've seen was: SquareSpace is still rather limited, Prismic and Contentful are around $500 per month in their non-free-tier, and Strapi is just too expensive to find devs for. Plus their editor looks the same as Wordpress's if I'm honest.

On the other hand, Wordpress has a massive community of reasonably priced freelancers, has updates many times a year, and most things you want out of the box (such as SEO, or easy hosting on Heroku or elsewhere). The only thing it doesn't have is the excitement to work with it :)

Is there a good business case for any of the competitors?

[john-shaffer]

Consider a static WordPress site via the WP2Static plugin: https://wp2static.com Going static solves most of the performance and security problems with WordPress. There's a prebuilt Docker setup at https://lokl.dev/ and an AWS template at https://staticweb.io/open-source/wordpress/ There are also commercial hosts (with their own plugins) at https://www.strattic.com/ and https://www.hardypress.com/

I've worked a bit with Contentful, and it seemed like a pretty good CMS, but pricey. The client was moving off of it because they wanted the more familiar WordPress UI.

[interestica]

Is there something up with wp2static right now or did they intentionally strip out all CSS/Style?

[john-shaffer]

The appearance is intentional. The author (https://github.com/leonstafford) is very into minimalism and accessibility.

[gman83]

Ohh thanks for this I'm going to try this out looks awesome!

[cstuder]

Choose boring technology.

WordPress is 18 years old, there's a good chance that it will be around for quite some time longer.

[fake-name]

Squarespace has somehow managed to make <img> tags require 3rd party javascript to work.

I cannot take them as anything other then grossly incompetent.

[b0ner_t0ner]

Also look into Frontity https://frontity.org/ if you're using React on the frontend. Check out their showcase page, a lot of big companies already using it: https://frontity.org/showcase/

[neurostimulant]

I would choose something that would let me move my site to other vendors easily or self-hosting it.

[pembrook]

Webflow.

Webflow is basically a super good editor that spits out static sites on build.

As easy to update as squarespace for non-tech folks, but as customizable and secure as a static site generator (since you can build everything from scratch).

[raffijacobs]

My current headless CMS choice is sanity.io. you'd still need a dev for the frontend and sanity schema setup probably.