When comparing GoNevis vs ProcessWire, the Slant community recommends ProcessWire for most people. In the question“What are the best web content management systems?” ProcessWire is ranked 1st while GoNevis is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose ProcessWire is:
You will always find one to respond politely in the forums. Sometimes even the creator Ryan Cramer himself.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free
Absolutely free for a lifetime. No cost at all.
Pro Advanced open-source dashboard
GoNevis Dash is an open source project/product that you can participate directly to improve, either by submitting code, reporting bugs, reviewing patches, etc...
Pro Themes
Different templates and themes.
Pro Built-in commenting
You don't need to use external commenting widgets on your site, all the comments and discussions happening on the website are stored under your account and can be easily managed and moderated.
Pro Free subdomain
Get a free subdomain registered under gonevis.com.
Pro Follow/Subscription support
People can subscribe and receive notifications on new posts.
Pro Full SSL Support
Using secure connection on all the website's traffic.
Pro Granular permissions engine
You can bring your whole team to each website and give them permissions such as Author, Admin, Owner, etc. and manage your entire website with your team.
Pro Content tagging
To keep content management simple, #tags are available instead of categories.
Pro File manager
With file manager Dolphin, keep all your photos, music, videos, documents, and other files under control.
Pro Built-in search
Pro Custom Google Analytics code
Using user's own Google Analytics code.
Pro Custom domain
Users can connect their own domain to their website. For example, jungle.gonevis.com => jungle.com or even blog.jungle.com. There's no limit on how many custom domains users can set on their website.
Pro Static pages
Websites and blogs can have static pages alongside their index page. Such as About, Contact or even dedicated pages and links to display a page with selected tags or categories.
Pro Disabling Google Analytics code
Users can disable Google Analytics from their website. In that, GoNevis will not put any analytics code on their website.
Pro Built-in SEO
When someone shares content from your website, related information such as images, title, description and other data that will be recognized by social media.
Pro Author Global Profile
Each user on GoNevis.com have a global profile, this will help each publisher to get more coverage.
Pro Author profile
Each writer will have a profile on their blog or website. This will make it easy for visitors to read all the content published by the author.
Pro Embeds
Can embed many different website widgets such as:
- YouYube
- SoundCloud
- Vimeo
- GitHub gists
- Pastebin
- ....
Pro Guest Subscriber
Can follow a blog without having to create an account on GoNevis.
https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
Pro Guest Commenting
Ability to Comment on blogs without having to create any account.
It's possible to subscribe to further notification of comment section to be notified when there's a reply form the author or other commenters.
https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
Pro Circles & Group Publishing
Circles allow you to share the content exclusively only for a group of selected people.
Sometimes you may want to make a post or an article only available to a group of people, like your Friends or Family members or even your coworkers.
Pro Monetization
Can user Google AdSense for monetization.
Just add your Google AdSense code, no custom tag is required.
Pro Email & Live Chat Support
Direct Live Chat and Email Support regardless of the being Free or Paid user.
Pro White Label
You can remove GoNevis footer link.
Pro Nice and helpful growing community
You will always find one to respond politely in the forums. Sometimes even the creator Ryan Cramer himself.
Pro Custom Fields on steroids
ProcessWire is heavily based on custom fields. All objects (Pages) inside ProcessWire are based on extensible templates comprised of fields that can be easily defined. Many useful fields come prebuilt and they can be extended with modules.
Pro Easy to learn
Processwire is extremely easy to learn. Consider this:
echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->title; // "Hello World"
echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->parent->title; // "Home"
echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->count; // 126
echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->each('title'); // ['Audio', 'Video' …]
Selectors are so powerful but yet so easy.
Check out the cheatsheet.
Pro Powerful and easy API
The API is jQuery like;
// find some pages:
$pages->find('template=skyscraper, architect=john, sort=title')->limit(4);
// mutate
$pages->get('title=Hello You')->set('title', 'HelloWorld')->save();
$pages->get('title=Old')->trash(); // trash page
// check user…
$user->isLogedin();
echo $user->name; // guest
$session->login($name, $pass);
$session->logout();
// redirect
$session->redirect($url);
Pro Powerful selector engine
The way you fetch, access and manipulate objects (Pages) in ProcessWire is extremely powerful and easy. You can receive any page and its custom fields, filter, travers, add…
Pro Template Engine Agnostic
By default, ProcessWire comes with 0 assumption on how you handle the output. You have 100% freedom on how you want to develop the frontend. Want to plain output stuff, go ahead. Want to use any number of Templating Engine, do it. Just use as Headless-CMS, okay!
Pro Extensible
Either using the modules already available or writing your own module, using the jQuery-like API.
Pro Open source
Source available on GitHub.