Cascade CMS is a powerful content management system designed for higher education and enterprise-level organisations. While it offers many robust features, we have seen many of these organisations are migrating to WordPress for its flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and ease of use.
If you’re managing a Cascade CMS website and considering a switch, we compare both platforms and highlight the benefits of moving to WordPress.
Cascade CMS vs. WordPress
Target Audience
- Cascade CMS: This platform was built for large-scale institutions, particularly in higher education, Cascade CMS caters to users managing extensive content and workflows.
- WordPress: While originally created for bloggers, WordPress has since evolved into a versatile platform that serves all kinds of businesses, universities, eCommerce stores, and online learning platforms.
Ease of Use
- Cascade CMS: Has a steep learning curve, often requiring technical expertise and specialised developers to manage and customise effectively.
- WordPress: Known for its intuitive dashboard, WordPress enables even non-technical users to create, edit, and maintain content with ease.
Customisation and Flexibility
- Cascade CMS: Customisation is possible but often limited by its proprietary nature, requiring expert developers familiar with the platform to make customised changes.
- WordPress: With an open-source framework, thousands of plugins, and customisable themes, WordPress provides unmatched flexibility.
Cost
- Cascade CMS: Managing this platform requires significant licensing fees, development costs, and ongoing maintenance expenses for even small changes.
- WordPress: Open-source and free to use, WordPress significantly reduces costs, with expenses limited to hosting, premium themes, and optional plugins.
Community and Support
- Cascade CMS: Support is primarily offered through contracts and a smaller user community.
- WordPress: Backed by a global community of developers and users, WordPress offers extensive forums, documentation, and resources.
Why migrate your Cascade CMS website to WordPress?
Hiring a WordPress specialist such as CircleBC can be beneficial for a business that wants to migrate from Cascade CMS to WordPress for several reasons:
Technical Expertise: A WordPress specialist has the technical expertise to ensure a smooth migration process. They can help with the export of content, installation, and setup of WordPress, importing content, customisation, testing and deployment of your new website, and troubleshooting any issues that may arise.
Optimisation: They can help with the optimisation of your website for search engines and performance, making sure that your new WordPress website is technically sound and ready for launch.
Customisation: They can help customise your website to match your business’s specific design and functionality requirements.
Integrations: They can help with the integration of third-party tools and services that are needed to match or enhance the functionality of your previous website.
Redirects: They can help with the setup of redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs, to maintain the SEO and prevent any 404 errors.
Training: They can provide training on how to use and maintain your new website, ensuring that your staff is comfortable with the new platform.
Support: They can provide ongoing support and maintenance for your website, which can be beneficial for businesses that don’t have the resources or technical expertise to handle these tasks in-house.
Moving to a different CMS can be daunting, especially when you’re not familiar with the new platform, however choosing the right support partner can make the entire process much easier and ensure that your transition is a success.
CircleBC are WordPress experts and can easily help you with the seamless transition from Cascade CMS to WordPress as well as providing ongoing support and maintenance long after your WordPress site has gone live.
Whether you want to simply migrate your content and layout from Cascade CMS over to WordPress, or want to undertake an entire redesign, we’ve got you covered!
We can also help you with setting up the following:
- Website hosting
- Email hosting and migration
- Custom data migration
- Custom eCommerce functionality and third-party integrations
- Documentation and training on how to manage your new WordPress website
Cascade CMS is a capable platform for large institutions, but its complexity, high costs, and limited flexibility make it less ideal for organisations seeking a more user-friendly and cost-effective solution. WordPress, with its customisation options, scalability, and large support community, is the perfect alternative for organisations looking for a more cost-effective, user friendly option.
If you are looking to migrate your website from Cascade CMS to WordPress, and you don’t have the inhouse resources to complete the migration for you, we can manage the process end to end. Our team of WordPress experts will ensure that your conversion is done correctly, quickly, and efficiently, and that your website is working properly on the new platform. We can also provide the peace of mind that your website will be secure and that you have ongoing WordPress support when you need it.
CircleBC have helped businesses across Australia, including Sydney,
Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Hobart, and Darwin with their WordPress website development and support.
Give the team at CircleBC a call, the initial consultation is complimentary and obligation free 1300 978 073.