Framer vs WordPress: Which should you choose?
Framer is better for modern marketing sites that need speed, design quality, and low maintenance. WordPress is better for content-heavy sites with complex plugins and established editorial workflows. For new B2B websites, Framer is the faster, more cost-effective choice.
What is WordPress?
WordPress powers over 40% of the web. It's an open-source CMS with thousands of plugins, themes, and a massive ecosystem. It can be customized to do almost anything but requires ongoing maintenance and security management.
WordPress
Strengths
- Massive plugin ecosystem for any functionality
- Mature CMS with powerful content management
- Large developer community and talent pool
- Full control over hosting and infrastructure
- Extensive SEO plugins (Rank Math, Yoast)
- Proven at scale — used by major publishers
Weaknesses
- Requires ongoing maintenance, updates, and security patches
- Performance degrades without careful optimization
- Theme-based design limits creative expression
- Plugin conflicts are common and hard to debug
- Security vulnerabilities — frequent target for attacks
- Hosting, plugins, and developer time add up quickly
Framer
Advantages
- Zero maintenance — no updates, patches, or security concerns
- Faster out of the box — no bloated plugins slowing things down
- Design-first approach — pixel-perfect control without code
- Built-in hosting with global CDN
- No security vulnerabilities from outdated plugins
- Lower total cost of ownership for marketing sites
- Modern design capabilities with native animations
- Faster time to launch — weeks, not months
Choose Framer for modern marketing sites. Choose WordPress for content empires.
For B2B marketing websites, landing pages, and portfolio sites, Framer is faster to build, cheaper to maintain, and produces better-performing sites. WordPress makes sense for content-heavy sites with 1,000+ posts, complex editorial workflows, or specific plugin dependencies. We actually use both — Framer for the website, WordPress as a headless CMS for the blog.
Frequently asked questions
Is Framer more secure than WordPress?
Yes, significantly. Framer sites are static and hosted on a managed CDN — there are no databases to exploit, no plugins to hack, and no login pages to brute force. WordPress requires constant security monitoring.
Can Framer handle a blog?
Yes. Framer has a built-in CMS for blogs. For more complex editorial needs, you can use Framer for the website and a headless CMS (like WordPress) for the blog — which is what we recommend for content-heavy strategies.
Is WordPress cheaper than Framer?
Not in practice. WordPress hosting costs $10-50/month, plugins cost $50-200/year each, and developer time for maintenance runs $200-500/month. Framer hosting starts at $5/month with zero maintenance costs.
Can I migrate from WordPress to Framer?
Yes. We regularly migrate WordPress sites to Framer. We rebuild the design, migrate content, set up redirects, and often set up WordPress as a headless CMS to keep the blog running.
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