Main Importatnt Facts Of Wixsites For Creating Blogs

Wix.com Ltd. (Hebrew: וויקס.קום) is an Israeli software company, publicly listed in the US, that provides cloud-based web development services. It allows users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools.[3] Along with its headquarters and other offices in Israel, Wix also has offices in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, the United States, Ukraine, and Singapore.[4]

Users can use applications for social media, e-commerce, online marketing, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites.[5][6] The Wix website builder is built on a freemium business model, earning its revenues through premium upgrades.[7] According to W3Techs, Wix is used by 2.3% of the top 10 million websites.[8]

Wix was founded in 2006 by Israeli developers Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan.[9] Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Wix was backed by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, DAG Ventures, and Benchmark Capital.[10] The company entered an open beta phase in 2007 using a platform based on Adobe Flash.[11]

By April 2010 Wix had 3.5 million users and raised US$10 million in Series C funding provided by Benchmark Capital and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital Partners.[12] In March 2011, Wix had 8.5 million users and raised US$40 million in Series D funding, bringing its total funding to that date to US$61 million.[13]

In June 2011, Wix launched the Facebook store module, making its first step into the social commerce trend.[14] In March 2012, Wix launched a new HTML5 site builder, replacing the Adobe Flash technology.[15][16] In October 2012, Wix launched an app market for users to sell applications built with the company's automated web development technology. Wix's software development kit lets app developers create and offer web apps to Wix users.[17]

By August 2013, the Wix platform had more than 34 million registered users.[18]

On 15 May 2014, Wix launched the WixHive API which allows Wix apps within a user web site to capture and share their visitor data (such as contact information, messages, purchases and bookings) with other installed apps within the same web site.[19]

Wix introduced Wix Fitness,[27] an all-in-one solution for fitness entrepreneurs to grow and promote their business and manage customer relationships in November 2019.

In February 2020, Wix unveiled Editor X,[28] a new platform to offer advanced capabilities for designers and web agencies.

As of June 2020, with the continuous improvement to its features updates and releases,[29] Wix claimed it had more than 180 million registered users from 190 countries around the world.[30]

At the end of 2020, and as a result of Adobe's decision to end their support for the Flash Player,[31] Wix stopped allowing their users to create websites in the Flash Editor as well as getting support for the Flash sites and deleting all the Flash sites,[32] thus officially ending the life of Wix's first product.

In October 2016, there was a controversy over Wix's use of WordPress's GPL-licensed code.[52] In response, Avishai Abrahami, Wix's CEO, published an answer explaining which open-source code was used and how Wix collaborates with the open-source community.[53] However, it was subsequently noted that collaboration with the open-source community was not sufficient under the terms of the GPL license, which requires any code built on GPL-licensed code to be released under the same license.[54]

On 31 May 2021, a Wix-hosted website run by exiled Hong Kong activists (2021hkcharter.com) was shut down at the request of the Hong Kong Police. This was the first known case of Hong Kong's National Security Law being used to censor content on an overseas website. Wix later apologized for "mistakenly removing the website" and reinstated the website after it had been down for four days.[55][56]