Squarespace vs WordPress: The 2025 Comparison
When it comes to building a professional website in 2025, the debate between Squarespace and WordPress rages on. However, for businesses and creatives who value efficiency, design, and ease of use, Squarespace (in our opinion) is the clear winner.
1. Effortless Setup and Maintenance
With Squarespace, your website is ready to go in minutes. There’s no need to hunt for hosting, worry about security patches, or wrestle with plugins. Everything is integrated seamlessly, giving you more time to focus on your business rather than technical headaches. WordPress, on the other hand, requires manual installation, hosting setup, constant updates, and a steep learning curve.
2. Beautiful, Professional Designs—No Coding Required
If you are a total novice Squarespace provides an extensive library of stunning, fully responsive templates that are designed by professionals. Customization is simple with its drag-and-drop interface, allowing you to create a unique, polished website without writing a single line of code. WordPress themes often require extensive tweaking, third-party plugins, or even hiring a developer to achieve a similar level of design quality. We can create bespoke templates for our clients that will match design features possible in any other web design platform, in a fraction of the time.
3. Built-in Features vs. Plugin Chaos
With Squarespace, everything you need—SEO tools, e-commerce functionality, analytics, and security—is built right in. WordPress relies on third-party plugins for most features, creating compatibility issues, security risks, and additional costs. Plus, with every WordPress update, there’s a chance that plugins will break, causing unnecessary stress and troubleshooting.
4. More Customisation Than Ever Before
One of the biggest criticisms of Squarespace in the past was its perceived lack of customizability. However, with the advent of specialized, robust Squarespace plugins, the platform is now more flexible than ever before. From advanced SEO enhancements and membership site functionality to intricate e-commerce customizations, these plugins allow users to tailor their Squarespace site to their exact needs. This eliminates one of the primary advantages WordPress once held while maintaining Squarespace’s streamlined user experience.
5. Rock-Solid Security and Reliability
Squarespace takes care of hosting, security, and backups, ensuring your site remains secure and online without any extra effort. WordPress, being an open-source platform, is a frequent target for hackers. To keep a WordPress site secure, you’ll need constant monitoring, security plugins, and reliable hosting—none of which come included.
6. Transparent Pricing with No Hidden Costs
Squarespace offers straightforward pricing that includes hosting, security, and customer support. With WordPress, the costs quickly add up—premium themes, hosting, security plugins, and developer fees can turn what seemed like a cheaper option into an expensive one. In contrast, Squarespace offers an all-in-one solution that eliminates surprise costs.
7. Exceptional Customer Support
When something goes wrong, Squarespace’s dedicated support team is available 24/7 to help. WordPress, being a self-hosted and open-source platform, leaves users to fend for themselves, relying on forums, tutorials, or hiring developers to troubleshoot issues.
Conclusion: Squarespace Is the Smarter Choice
At Float Studio, we choose Squarespace because it delivers a seamless, high-quality web experience without the headaches that come with WordPress. Whether you're a small business owner, creative professional, or entrepreneur, Squarespace offers everything you need—effortless setup, stunning designs, built-in security, and reliable support—all in one platform.
If you want a website that looks great, performs well, and is easy to manage, Squarespace is the obvious choice. Want to see what we can create for you? Get in touch with Float Studio today!
