Build and Sync Websites Easily Between Brizy WordPress and Brizy Cloud

on 31 October 2024, by Bogdan, in Blog, WordPress, Cloud, FREE, Guides

by Bogdan

Did you know you can sync and replicate what you build in Brizy WordPress on our Cloud platform?

Different CMS platforms have different strengths. Instead of locking yourself into one CMS, you might use one for its ease of use, like WordPress, and another for creating and hosting high-converting simple or multipage sites independently of the WordPress ecosystem.

Generally, syncing between CMS platforms lets you take advantage of both worlds. In this post, we’ll focus on Brizy's cross-platform flexibility and what it means for our users at this moment.

This is after we’ve explained the differences between Brizy for WordPress and Brizy Cloud and when to use either platform.

Let’s begin.

What is Brizy for WordPress and Brizy Cloud

Generally speaking, Brizy for WordPress is a drag-and-drop builder for WordPress. It replaces the basic WordPress editor with a live front-end editor so you can create complex layouts and design your website live. You won’t have to toggle between the editor and preview modes.

But the big deal about Brizy for WordPress is it lets you build professional websites that enjoy the full benefits of the WordPress ecosystem. Benefits like:

Full data ownership of all your files and deploy them to any hosting provider that supports WordPress.
Unmatched flexibility and customization. It generously offers limitless design options to create, edit, modify, manage, and publish your Brizy WordPress site.

It has a vast library of WordPress themes and plugins for things like marketing, shipping, inventory management, social media integration, SEO & analytics, customer support, etc.
Better search visibility. WordPress sites are SEO-friendly. With the world’s most popular Yoast SEO plugin, you can easily improve your site’s visibility on search engines.

Scalable ecommerce integration. You can easily integrate it with a robust ecommerce solution like WooCommerce.

and more.

Once your WordPress website is up and running, you can monetize it how you want. You can run ads, use third-party ad networks, etc. However, monetization options are limited in WordPress.com unless you're on a premium plan.

How about Brizy Cloud?

What is Brizy Cloud?

In the Brizy Cloud option, you’ll have access to the same user-friendly drag-and-drop builder and interface for designing websites just like in the WordPress plan. This includes the same starter templates, block elements, etc., for every marketing niche, the inline-editing experience, the list goes on.

One of the biggest differences is you’ll host Brizy WordPress yourself while Brizy Cloud is hosted by us, Brizy, on AWS lightning-fast servers. In addition, you’ll manage your site’s content within the Brizy Cloud platform independently of WordPress CMS. The Cloud platform includes

User-friendly and easy-to-use dashboard/workspace: You can easily create new projects like websites, popups, and stories, manage them separately, edit projects, etc. It also includes a search functionality to search projects, switch languages, filter options for recent projects, alphabetical, or date created, and more.

Team collaboration feature: This makes it easier for multiple users to work on a project simultaneously. Invite team members, assign them roles, etc.
Create new workspaces. Each workspace acts like a unique “container” for projects. It’s useful for managing multiple websites or clients in one Brizy Cloud account without mixing up content or settings.

It also streamlines billing management per workspace by separating expenses for each project.

Tip: Each workspace can have its branding, domain settings, and configurations, so you can tailor experiences per project or client. In case you opt for the white-label subscription plan.

A media library: where you can store, organize, and manage various types of media files, including images, videos, audio files, and documents (and other file types), for specific web projects.

Easy publishing options: For flexibility in project launches, there are built-in options to publish on a custom domain, subdomain, or through a Brizy-provided domain.
Automated hosting and security: Built-in hosting, SSL, and security measures, removing the need to handle these aspects separately, by yourself. Open websites from the dashboard to preview them on the front end.

Overall, agencies, developers, freelancers, businesses—anyone— can leverage the Brizy page builder on either the Cloud platform or WordPress CMS for different reasons or use cases. Let's find out.

When to use Brizy for WordPress and Brizy Cloud

Both WordPress and the Cloud platform have their strengths and different features. Here’s when you can use either CMS platform:

When to use Brizy for WordPress

It could be for a simple reason, such as wanting to build a WordPress site, ecommerce store, blog, portfolio, membership site, etc., but using the Brizy page builder for its simplicity, user-friendliness, ease of use, reliability, etc.

If you want full ownership of your site's content (and structure) and hosting environment: With WordPress, you own the hosting, control backups, manage security, and can export and migrate your site anytime.

Integrate with advanced WordPress plugins: Brizy for WordPress allows full plugin compatibility and flexibility if the project requires integration with other WordPress plugins (ecommerce, memberships, etc.)
Advanced SEO control: Since WordPress has robust SEO plugins (Yoast, Rank Math), the Brizy for WordPress is beneficial if you need in-depth SEO optimization alongside page-building tools.

By itself, Brizy uses clean and semantic HTML markup so search engines can easily crawl and index.

If you need flexibility in designing content-heavy sites: WordPress is already fantastic at managing large amounts of content. Brizy allows you to create custom, responsive design layouts to showcase this content and engage visitors.

When to use Brizy Cloud

On the other hand, you can use Brizy Cloud if you want:

Create quick projects like landing pages, simple websites, and web stories: Creating and optimizing your landing pages with Brizy will ensure your page converts at the highest rate possible. Use web stories to grab visitor’s attention with short, bite-sized content in slides.

There’s no need for hosting or external plugins: With Brizy Cloud, you don’t have to find or pay for separate hosting. It’s all included, so you skip setup, security, backups, and updates.

There are also other self-hosted options (with tutorials) like server sync and third-party free hosting:

This easy publishing on custom subdomains or branded URLs makes Brizy Cloud well-suited for temporary or specialized pages, such as sales funnels or event sites.

In addition, Brizy Cloud seamlessly integrates marketing and automation tools to help you capture leads, track user engagement, and run email campaigns directly from your created website. Overall, these tools are meant to grow your audience and streamline marketing efforts.

Rapid deployment with Brizy Cloud’s infrastructure: You can skip the usual setup steps like finding hosting or configuring security, go straight to designing your site, and deploy your web projects.

Several Brizy features are worth highlighting. Most importantly, we’ll focus on one feature that’s critical and particularly relevant to Brizy users right now: cross-platform content syncing.

So, what’s this feature and why is it relevant now?

How to sync content across platforms with Brizy

Brizy's cross-platform syncing makes it incredibly simple to manage and update content across both Brizy Cloud and Brizy for WordPress. Right out of the box, you can effortlessly sync layouts and block elements in your block manager across these two platforms.

In simple terms, sync allows you to create any page or block, save it to your block manager, and then sync it to another platform, from which you can use it as a template or to duplicate pages.

We’ll start with the WordPress installation.

Open one of your Brizy for WordPress projects, select a template layout, and click the Save button.

2. Doing this for the first time will open a screen like this one where you can enter your details and log in to your Brizy account. Connecting to your Brizy account syncs your library (saved blocks and layouts) to the Cloud.

3. Hitting Skip turns off sync for this layout. Still, it’s a setting you can connect to later in the block manager.

4. The shortcut for this is Ctrl + Shift + A for Windows and cmd + shift + A for Mac. Then, click the Saved tab to see your synced blocks and layouts.

5. You can click the Connect button on the left panel, and enter your email address and password to link to your Brizy account. If you have no Brizy account, sign in.

6. Because sync won’t happen by default in Brizy WordPress, click the Sync Now button to ensure this. The sync icon will change to green to show the sync is successful.

7. On the Cloud platform, you don’t have to set up anything. Your blocks and layouts automatically sync here across projects and sub-accounts.

Now that your WordPress installation is connected, you’ll find those saved blocks and layouts on the Cloud platform as well. All the changes you make on the library, or in any connected WordPress installation, will sync automatically in the Cloud’s block manager.

Then, for the WordPress version, you’ll have to click sync now. You can disconnect and reconnect as you wish.

That being said, why is this cross-platform flexibility a big deal?

Why it’s important to sync your library between WordPress and the Brizy Cloud platform

The big deal about building and syncing websites across WordPress and Brizy Cloud is that it provides flexibility, future-proofing, and better control over your digital assets.

We’ll make this clear in a few. But the main reason we bring this cross-platform syncing functionality up is because of the ongoing WordPress-WP engine conflict that's currently a hot issue. There's a growing concern about the risks of being too dependent on one open-source provider (or relying too much on WordPress).

This came after WordPress, for example, took a controversial measure like making developers confirm they aren’t affiliated with WP Engine.

Brizy Cloud acts as a contingency for WordPress sites because of its cross-platform syncing functionality. It offers a platform-independent option that ensures you aren't fully reliant on WordPress. If there are any WordPress-specific issues, you can easily transfer all your content from Brizy WP (the WordPress version) to Brizy Cloud in just half a day. Honestly, it's impossible to achieve this in Elementor, Divi, or any other website builder based on WP.

While it’s unlikely WordPress will go bust any time soon, the point still stands. In a way, syncing your library across platforms acts as a backup strategy so you're safe when one CMS goes down.

Conclusion

Brizy cross-platform syncing capability makes it easy to keep your content and web designs consistent between WordPress and Brizy Cloud. You can easily transfer the same design you're working on WordPress to Brizy Cloud exactly as you made it. In this way, if you want to manage your site on Brizy Cloud instead of WordPress, you don't have to redo your work. Any changes made will reflect on either platform.

In addition, you'll enjoy the benefits of both worlds. The user-friendliness, popularity, and extensive features of WordPress and the simplicity, ease of use, and reliability of Brizy Cloud.

Get yourself a Brizy account today and connect your Brizy for WordPress with our Cloud platform today.

Article by Bogdan

Co-founder & Head of Design, Bogdan has a passion for everything that works great and looks awesome. Guilty for most of the UI and UX around this place, you can say "Hi" to him at bogdan at brizy dot io