Cabin puts writing, photos, forms, visitors and hosting in one calm place. Nothing to install, nothing to keep patched, every word yours to take.
Most people are live within the hour.
Not a weekend. Not a developer.
Pages, articles, content types, photos, forms and visitor stats.
Connect the model you already use for drafts, alt text and tags.
Export every word and photo, any time.
Six logins, four bills, and something always needs an update. Most weeks the site is the last thing you want to open.
One login. Nothing to update.
One place for writing, photos, forms, visitors and hosting. It updates itself. You open it when you have something to say.
Time to a live site
We timed the same jobs on a fresh Cabin site and a fresh WordPress install, the way they actually get done day to day. No developer on call, no agency.
café-site · same job, both tools
Five pages, a logo, your own domain.
33× fasterTwenty photos, sized and sorted.
10× fasterFind the page, edit, publish.
12× fasterCore, theme and plugin updates.
Nothing to doEvery word and photo, in files you own.
90× fasterFive things every site needs, built in. Each replaces something you're paying for or patching today. The bigger the site, the more that adds up.
The editor looks like the page it becomes. Drafts save as you type and reopen exactly where you stopped.
ReplacesGutenbergElementorClassic Editor
Cabin names the photos, makes every size your site needs and finds them again when you search.
ReplacesSmushImagifyMedia folders
Recipes, events, people, projects. Say what a thing is made of and Cabin builds the editor for it.
ReplacesACFCustom Post Type UIPods
Form replies land on your dashboard and in your inbox. One number, one chart, the pages people actually read.
ReplacesContact Form 7Google AnalyticsWPForms
Fast servers, nightly backups and a certificate that renews itself. Connect a domain you have or register one here.
ReplacesBluehostUpdraftPlusSSL plugins
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Why Cabin
WordPress and Wix are fine tools. They just leave the assembling, patching and hosting to you, and that gets heavier the bigger the site.
| Topic | WordPress | Wix / Squarespace | Cabin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting set up | Weak:A weekend, a theme and a few tutorials | Mixed:An afternoon of dragging boxes around | Strong:About an hour. Describe your content, start writing. |
| Plugins to maintain | Weak:10 to 30, each with its own updates | Mixed:None, but every extra is an app with a fee | Strong:None. Forms, media and visitors are built in. |
| Hosting and backups | Weak:A separate bill, and your problem | Strong:Included | Strong:Included, on your own domain |
| Writing and photos | Mixed:A block editor plus an image plugin | Weak:Content lives inside the page builder | Strong:A plain editor. Photos sized and sorted for you. |
| Your content | Mixed:Portable, if you know your way around a database | Weak:Locked in. Exports are partial. | Strong:Export every word and photo, any time |
| When it breaks | Weak:Find a developer | Mixed:Wait for support | Strong:It doesn't. We run it. |
Already on one of them? Paste your site's address and Cabin brings over your posts, pages and images.See how importing works
Upkeep
Cabin updates itself a few times a week. Fixes, speed, new features. Nothing lands in your dashboard asking to be installed.
All clear
0
updates waiting for you right now
Same number since launch. We do them, your site keeps running.
Latest
Loved by the people who run them
People switch for the hour-long setup and stay because nothing ever asks to be updated.
I moved the whole site off WordPress in an evening. I haven't thought about plugins, updates or hosting since. I just write, and it's there.
Mara LindPhotographer · moved from WordPressMy old site broke every time a plugin updated. Cabin has nothing to update. I change the menu from my phone before the bread's out of the oven.
Tom OkaforHearth Bakery · moved from WixI was paying a developer to change a sentence. Now the signup form, the archive and the photos live in one place I actually understand.
Priya NatarajanTrailhead Weekly · moved from SquarespacePick the plan that fits how you work. Every plan includes content types, photos, forms, visitor stats and export.
$39one-time
Pay once for a site that doesn't change much.
$15a month
Hosted, backed up and kept up to date by us.
from $49a month
For studios running sites for clients.
What a WordPress site really costs each month
Managed hosting $25 · Premium theme $6 · Form plugin $4 · Backups $7 · Security $8 · Image optimiser $5
$55Cabin Standard $15
Set up your site in an hour, or paste your old address and bring everything over.