WebWave vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
WebWave
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
WebWave — an alternative for agencies and freelancers for creating custom websites for clients with the support of CMS. Using CMS with no sacrifices WebWave is a CMS platform that gives a designer precision up to 1 px in every single detail just like in more sophisticated graphic programs such as Photoshop while remaining a drag and drop software. This is to make creating websites much faster without loosing on details. Spend less time talking WebWave…N/A
WordPress VIP
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
WebWaveWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
WebWaveWordPress VIP
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$7 per monthNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
WebWaveWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
WebWave
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
WebWave
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
2% below category average
API00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings5.92 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
WebWave
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
8.2
2 Ratings
8% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.32 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
WebWave
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
8.0
2 Ratings
9% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Best Alternatives
WebWaveWordPress VIP
Small Businesses
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Score 10.0 out of 10
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
10Web
10Web
Score 8.3 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Bitrix24
Bitrix24
Score 8.1 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
WebWaveWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(53 ratings)
8.6
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(2 ratings)
7.5
(19 ratings)
User Testimonials
WebWaveWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
WebWave
Well suited: Small businesses and entrepreneurs: WebWave is an excellent option for small businesses and entrepreneurs who need a professional-looking website without spending a lot of time and money. It's easy to use, customizable, and offers fast load times and responsive design. Less appropriate: Large e-commerce websites: If you're looking to create a large e-commerce website with a vast number of products and advanced features, WebWave may not be the best option. Its e-commerce functionality is limited compared to other website builders, and it may not be able to accommodate the needs of a large-scale online store. Also, if you need much coding, you would rather have it with something that is wordpress-based.
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Automattic
WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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Pros
WebWave
  • WebWave's site builder is the platform's truly innovative feature. I've never come across another service that deploys a layer-based approach in web design, as most of them usually deploy a grid-based system. This is an incredible alteration that ensures WebWave behaves much like a traditional graphic design tool, thereby resulting in an experience that is a lot more intuitive and instinctive. I believe this has the potential to radically change the way people approach no-code web design.
  • WebWave provides automatic, daily backups and a free SSL certificate for every website. This results in excellent security.
  • WebWave's support team is first-class! I had some teething-issues in the beginning, but the support team quickly got me back on track.
  • WebWave's community/forum is an excellent place to vote and request new features. This proves the development team is committed to making WebWave better by listening to their users.
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Automattic
  • Security - class leading security, ensuring sites are protected and operate hassle free
  • Scalability - provide patches and updates first before the market place
  • Reliability - up to 99.9% up time, with a fantastic track record
  • Performance - hitting the high notes for Core Web Vitals and ensuring WordPress is operating at its peak performance
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Cons
WebWave
  • Some scope for improvement in UX (colors are not very appealing). It is simple to use but design is a little dated. Especially in the builder section, I'd like to see modern design for buttons and maybe gradients also: as this is where visual motivation is also important
  • Some edits take effect only after pressing OK. That should be eliminated as it's an unnecessary addition. It's also kind of annoying to do that again and again, which can add up to a lot as we do so many small tweaks while building the website.
  • Few things (maybe glitches) in design. The rectangle below the footer was uneditable for me. I spent quite some time trying to figure it out so I'm convinced it's a glitch.
  • Website speed should be increased.
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Automattic
  • Too many different dashboard formats
  • Everything should have the same look and feel.
  • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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Likelihood to Renew
WebWave
No answers on this topic
Automattic
It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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Usability
WebWave
Very easy to use, intuitive, has many options and plug-ins, and is cheap.
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Automattic
There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
WebWave
1. The support person does not seem to understand the issues, and seems like they go off to talk to somebody and revert back every 5 to 10 minutes. It takes up a lot of time. 2. There is a lack of reading material to address simple issues like changing the website name in the dashboard, pasting a code, etc.
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Automattic
The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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Alternatives Considered
WebWave
WordPress is a more flexible and adaptive content management system than Webwave. In addition to the functionalities that are already built-in, I am unable to add any customizable plugins or add-ons. However, in the majority of cases, the inherent features of Webwave are sufficient for developing a website that serves its intended purpose. Webwave also makes it possible for you to add animations and the appearance of each of your design elements, whereas WordPress builders require additional plugins in order for users to access most of such capabilities. Webwave has several essential design features available internally, thus saving money and time.
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Automattic
Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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Return on Investment
WebWave
  • saved 30 hours per year per site (previously I had to manually run updates and check if everything is fine)
  • earns money for me without a touch (thanks to automatic billing of my customers for hosting and support) - additional (ca.) 120 USD per year per site
  • no negatives so far
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Automattic
  • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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ScreenShots

WebWave Screenshots

Screenshot of Customize the interfaceScreenshot of Edit desktop websiteScreenshot of Edit mobile websiteScreenshot of Free stock imagesScreenshot of InterfaceScreenshot of Layers panel