Comparison With WordPress

1. Hosting

Unlike WordPress, MechCloud has no hosted version, removing the confusion between SaaS and hosted options. This also eliminates the need for extensive research to determine the best version for your needs, a common first step for new WordPress users.

Many users spend a significant amount of time and effort understanding the differences between the various offerings, including maintenance, support options, and pricing structures. With MechCloud, this entire process is streamlined, allowing new users to get started faster and focus on building their projects without worrying about selecting the right platform variant. This simplicity can be especially beneficial for small businesses or individuals with limited technical resources.

2. Built-in page designer

• Unlike infinite number of page designers (e.g. Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, Oxygen etc) available for WordPress, MechCloud includes a built-in, AI-powered page designer, eliminating the endless search for the best page designer.

3. Hard separation between custom code and MechCloud code

• Unlike Wordpress (when plugins, themes code sits adjacent to the wordpress core code and having full access to its db), custom code in MechCloud is injected from a remote location at runtime and so don't have any access to its file system.

4. Modular Architecture

• Custom assets (frames, layouts, CSS frameworks, UI components library, etc.) are centrally hosted in a manner akin to a static website and require no installation procedures. This arrangement allows you to amalgamate modular components from various providers to rapidly construct the desired website, efficiently sidestepping the time-consuming task of customizing a WordPress theme, which often fails to meet specific needs.

• When you embark on creating a site (such as a personal blog or a brand website), you usually start by hunting for a WordPress theme that aligns with your website's goals. This search can be extensive and laborious, often leading to a disappointing outcome where no theme precisely fits your needs, or you find a theme that is somewhat suitable but necessitates significant customization to function as required.

• In contrast to a WordPress theme's comprehensive approach, where the theme aims to cover all aspects of a site, MechCloud leverages a modular architecture. This allows you to assemble site pages from modular and reusable components, such as frames and layouts. The modular approach offered by MechCloud presents numerous advantages over WordPress' all-encompassing theme strategy:

  • Flexibility: Since components are modular, you can pick and choose only the necessary ones, tailoring each part of your site to specific requirements without altering an entire theme.

  • Efficiency: Rapidly mix and match existing components to create the needed features, saving both time and effort.

  • Customization: Modifying individual components is generally simpler and more straightforward than reshaping an entire theme, allowing for easier updates and maintenance.

  • Reusability: The same components can be reused across different projects or sections of the site, fostering consistency and reducing redundancy.

Overall, MechCloud's modular, component-based architecture significantly departs from the traditional, monolithic approach of WordPress themes, offering a more adaptable, efficient, and manageable solution.

5. No Plugin Hell

All the basic features (analytics, advanced identity and access management, page builder etc), which otherwise require third party plugins in case of WordPress, are built into MechCloud website builder. So no endless research to find the best plugin for a basic feature (e.g. analytics) and no fear of being spammed by the creators of these plugins.

6. Host (enterprise) private assets in your private network

As an enterprise customer you can host your custom assets (frames, layouts, external pages, components) in your private network which will be consumed by MechCloud page designer when it is accessed within your private network. This arrangement makes it possible to make the private custom assets of an enterprise available to only those users (e.g. employees, partners) who are authorized to access the private network of an enterprise.

7. Modern features for Partners

• MechCloud has first class support for Partners and Customers ( two types of tenants ) which makes it possible for partners to offer their own marketplace for custom assets. This not only makes it possible to distribute custom assets from a central location (instead of uploading these on gumroad like sites) but also helps keep these custom assets up to date without any intervention from the customer.

• Built in support for subscription for partners to monetize custom assets. So a partner would be able to put its custom assets behind a subscription and the target site will not be able to use these custom assets if subscription is not renewed after the expiry date.

• Partners can create/manage their own tenants.