Shopify vs WordPress

Shopify can be understood as an e-commerce platform which is used to provide customers services to sell their products online without creating their own store. It is a paid platform where users can make their accounts and choose from a number of templates and can build their e-commerce website to sell their products. Shopify provides all the necessary tools and equipment needed to build an online store.

WordPress can be understood as a content management system which was built by Matt Mullenweg in 2003. It is built using the PHP programming language. The development credit for this platform goes to WordPress Foundation. It is a free and open-source platform which was initially released in May 2003 and a stable version was released in 2022. It has a special feature of customizable plugins for building web applications. It uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript for building interactive web applications. It uses MySQL as its database for storing data.

Below is a table of differentiation between Shopify and WordPress:

	Shopify	WordPress
1.	It is an e-commerce platform which provides services to make an online store to sell goods.	It is a content management platform for building websites and web applications.
2.	It provides everything in a single package and it is very easy to use.	It has different options for building applications and then hosting that.
3.	It is a paid platform and no free service is available.	Building applications is free of cost only hosting services are paid.
4.	It has dedicated support and backup options for its customers	It does not provide any support for its customers.
5.	File storage is unlimited.	Database size for storage depends on the customer’s plan.
6.	It is not open source.	It is an open-source platform.
7.	It does not have many features for blogging sites.	WordPress provides the best features for blogging sites.
8.	It also provides plugins but most of them are paid.	WordPress provides a large number of plugins for advanced features.