There is no one-size-fits-all choice. Five questions to help you decide based on actual needs instead of trends.
This is the question I receive the most during consulting sessions. The short answer: it depends on whether your website is a content channel or an operational tool.
Company introduction, services, blog, recruitment — WordPress does these very well. Your team can edit things themselves, initial costs are low, and there is a large ecosystem available.
Multi-tier permissions, approval workflows, formula-based pricing, ERP synchronization — at this point, a Laravel or Node.js application is usually cleaner and easier to maintain than “bending” WordPress with dozens of plugins.
| Criteria | WordPress | Custom Development |
|---|---|---|
| Initial cost | Low | Medium – high |
| Self-editing content | Very easy | Depends on design |
| Custom business logic | Limited | Flexible |
| Maintenance | Frequent updates | Less third-party dependency |
Many of the best projects use WordPress for the public content section and a custom application for the customer portal, communicating via API.
List out what the website needs to do over the next 2 years. That list will answer this question more clearly than any comparison table.
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