{"id":2257,"date":"2020-08-29T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2024-01-16T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:12:44","slug":"what-are-the-tradeoffs-of-building-a-custom-cms-versus-using-an-off-the-shelf-or-open-source-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/2257\/what-are-the-tradeoffs-of-building-a-custom-cms-versus-using-an-off-the-shelf-or-open-source-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the tradeoffs of building a custom CMS versus using an off-the-shelf or open source CMS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-cms-website-builder-open-source-tradeoffs.jpg\">    <picture>\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-cms-website-builder-open-source-tradeoffs.jpg\"\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-cms-website-builder-open-source-tradeoffs.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-cms-website-builder-open-source-tradeoffs-300x172.jpg 300w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\n             width=\"698\"\n             height=\"400\"\n             alt=\"custom-cms-website-builder-open-source-tradeoffs\"\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\n             class=\"wp-image-4264\" >\n    <\/picture>\n    <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a custom CMS you have to keep the coding up-to-date, rather than just install the update &#8211; so that could be a huge difference in maintenance time and cost needed. Also it takes more time and cost to develop the custom CMS, which you could use to work on your website itself; just make sure to choose a flexible platform like UltimateWB. You will also have a community using the CMS to help out with special features, design, etc. more easier if it is not a custom CMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worried about flexibility, customizability with a website builder? Check out the answer to this question on the blog post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1843\/is-there-a-website-builder-that-allows-custom-coding\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1843\/is-there-a-website-builder-that-allows-custom-coding\/\">&#8220;Is there a website builder that allows custom coding?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you ready to design &amp; build your own website? Learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/\">UltimateWB<\/a>! We also offer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/web-design-packages\">web design packages<\/a>\u00a0if you would like your website designed and built for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Got a techy\/website question? Whether it\u2019s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/ask-david\">\u201cAsk David!\u201d form<\/a>. We will email you when the answer is posted on the UltimateWB \u201cAsk David!\u201d section.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a custom CMS you have to keep the coding up-to-date, rather than just install the update &#8211; so that could be a huge difference in maintenance time and cost needed. Also it takes more time and cost to develop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/2257\/what-are-the-tradeoffs-of-building-a-custom-cms-versus-using-an-off-the-shelf-or-open-source-cms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034],"tags":[96,1360,95,303],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-david","tag-cms","tag-custom-cms","tag-open-source","tag-wordpress-hacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4265,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}