When comparing Wix vs GoNevis, the Slant community recommends Wix for most people. In the question“What are the best web content management systems?” Wix is ranked 12th while GoNevis is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Wix is:
Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.
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Pros
Pro Functionality can be extended with community plug-ins
Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.
Pro Straightforward drag & drop interface
There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images.
Pro Personalized templates
Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial.
Pro Wix Code lets you add custom code and backends to your WYSIWYG site when needed
This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates.
Pro Great support
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.
Cons
Con Generated html is very bad
A lot of duplicated css, a lot of absolute positioning.
Con Hard to migrate away
There isn't an option to self-host the site, but neither should there be a need to.
Con Dated templates
Con Unpleasant sign-up process
