Statamic is based on Laravel
This makes it easy to extend and customise as needed. Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks, and has a large ecosystem of open source packages that can also be used with Statamic. This makes Statamic and Laravel great for solving individual challenges.
How safe is Statamic?
Statamic is a stable and mature system. It has been under development since 2012 and can be considered as secure as Laravel websites. Statamic has no known vulnerabilities and benefits from the security features of the Laravel framework. As part of the Laravel ecosystem, which has a very large and active open source community behind it, the features and also the security aspects are constantly being developed.
Unfortunately, when it comes to security, WordPress-based websites often fall behind. According to Sucuri Inc., a company specialising in website security, almost 96% of hacked websites use WordPress.
WordPress lives from its plug-ins. For users without specialist knowledge, however, it is impossible to judge whether a plug-in is trustworthy or even to classify it as "secure".
This makes Wordpress vulnerable. Most attacks are based on so-called SQL injections, which cannot occur with Statamic because it does not use a database.
The Statamic development team, on the other hand, maintains all the functions required for website creation; it requires virtually no plug-ins. Furthermore, Statamic is based on Laravel, currently the best PHP web framework.
Is Statamic fast?
Statamic can be used as a flat-file CMS or use a database for storage. The high speed is achieved by not using a database. Statamic stores the content in files and only plays out cached files during operation.
Wordpress uses a database to store its content. The website speed can also be negatively affected by plugins. A common phenomenon of Wordpress websites is the high number of plugins used to achieve a certain functionality. Often, this creates many redundancies to external scripts, which significantly increases loading times.
These problems can be circumvented very well in a Statamic and Laravel-based website.
User-friendliness
Statamic offers an intuitive, easy-to-use and powerful control panel for managing content.
From text to graphics to videos, there is a content block for almost any content.
Statamic is not only user-friendly but can also be considered very developer-friendly. The system can be easily extended for individual functions.
Scope of functions
The most important argument for Statamic, however, is its proximity to Laravel. Statamic can be added to existing Laravel projects. Alternatively, Statamic can also be used independently.
Other important features of Statamic are:
An intuitive, easy-to-use and powerful control panel for content management
A sophisticated media management for images and videos. A focus point can be set for images so that the relevant parts are always displayed.
Support for multilingual websites. Statamic itself is available in 7 different languages.
A fast and reliable caching system that ensures fast website loading times
With Antlers, Statamic offers a templating engine for easy creation of custom website designs. The Laravel templating engine Blade is also supported.
A robust user rights system to control access to different parts of the website
Developer-friendly: The system is highly customisable and can therefore be used in almost any scenario.
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Multilingualism
Multilingual websites can be easily implemented with statamic. Statamic itself is available in 7 different languages. The "multi-site" feature can be used to deliver a website in different languages or to split pages across different domains.
WordPress is not multilingual by default, this is only possible via plug-ins.
