We performed a comparison between Liferay Digital Experience Platform and WordPress based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"We chose Liferay because it is open-source and that we can make any number of users apply, register into the system and use the system, as opposed to other solutions where the cost is based on user licenses. This is one of the most attractive features."
"The solution is easy to install."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"Manageability is very good and probably the most valuable part of a tool of this type. There is a little more of a learning curve than you have with a simple tool, but a business user can learn to manage the system as an administrator very easily."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"It allows us to arrange and develop new ideas, then incorporate them into the portal. We can create a one stop information center, so people can access the information from one window."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"The product provides capabilities to build modern websites and can be used for various aspects of services."
"This program has made it possible for our company to advertise all around the country, instead of keeping it local."
"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."
"It is a stable system which offers a wide variety of themes and templates."
"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."
"The standout feature is its high degree of customization. Creating user-friendly, easily maintainable websites is a breeze, especially with the convenient admin access."
"It is easy to edit content using WordPress."
"The best feature in WordPress is Elementor. It lets you easily create one-page landing sites."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"It could be improved in terms of adding filters to some of the rules. Therefore, you can retain how long a document would need to stay in an archive."
"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."
"WordPress needs to adapt to new technologies. It also needs to improve scalability. We don't have optimized content and plugins in the tech stack."
"The system should be more informative."
"It may be useful to have a downloadable program that you could have on your desktop that allows you to create and maintain the program while offline."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"In WordPress, the user onboarding process is an area with complexities...there is no step-by-step explanation provided."
"WordPress sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."
"A user may feel intimidated the first time he or she sees it."
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Liferay Digital Experience Platform is ranked 4th in Web Content Management with 44 reviews while WordPress is ranked 2nd in Web Content Management with 28 reviews. Liferay Digital Experience Platform is rated 8.0, while WordPress is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Liferay Digital Experience Platform writes "Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WordPress writes "Very customizable, and forms the base for most websites on the Internet". Liferay Digital Experience Platform is most compared with Adobe Experience Manager, Magnolia CMS, Drupal, SharePoint and Sitecore Experience Platform, whereas WordPress is most compared with SharePoint, Quintype, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal and TerminalFour Site Manager. See our Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs. WordPress report.
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