You’ve probably been asked, “Which is better: WordPress or Squarespace?” Seeing as we are part of the WordPress community, you and I are obviously biased towards WordPress. Many times we will instinctively say WordPress is better without having an exact reason. Luckily, there really is no real answer to this question. Instead, the question needs to be rephrased as, “Which is better for the user and the project?” Let’s examine this. Who Should Use Squarespace? Even as a WordPress developer, I won’t hesitate to say that Squarespace is one amazing platform. There are many projects for which Squarespace is the […]
This Week In WordPress: 04/20/2015
Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Update Your Plugins (again): Until recently, 15 or more popular plugins (including Jetpack and WordPress SEO) were vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting. “The developers assumed that these functions would escape the user input for them, when it does not. This simple detail, caused many of the most popular plugins to be vulnerable to XSS.” How to avoid clients from hell: Brandon Yanofsky talks about clients from hell, and how you can avoid them, and make freelancing fun again. Adding IPTC’s camera metadata to WordPress 4.2: What it took […]
My Experience of Squarespace [Screencast]
We’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about Squarespace and whether or not it’s a worthwhile investment of time and exploration – and a contender to WordPress blogging. Well, although I’ve known about Squarespace for quite some time and even though I’ve recommended to some customers that they take a look at it in earnest, I’ve never dived deeply into it myself since I’ve been so focused on WordPress. Well, when Squarespace announced their entry into eCommerce adding Stripe integration, a big love of ours here at 8BIT, I knew I had to check it out. Apparently Squarespace has some […]
Squarespace Adds Commerce via Stripe Integration
Squarespace is one application that we, as a community around WordPress, need to stay abreast of because they are building something both impressive and innovative. Recently they released an ecommerce portion to their offering that really brings their blogging solution into a much more impressive sphere: Giving our customers the ability to manage and sell products on their websites has been the most requested Squarespace feature of all time. Thanks to the powerful architecture of Squarespace 6, we’ve built a truly integrated commerce solution that gives our customers amazing power and flexibility within a single platform. With seamless integration with […]
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