Adobe Experience Manager vs WordPress comparison

Adobe and Wordpress are both solutions in the Web Content Management category. Adobe is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.6, while Wordpress is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7. Adobe holds a 12.5% mindshare in WCM, compared to Wordpress’s 14.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Wordpress users who would recommend it.

Adobe Experience Manager

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95% willing to recommend

WordPress

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Adobe Experience Manager 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager

Ranking in Web Content Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (8th), Enterprise Social Software (6th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)

WordPress

Ranking in Web Content Management

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 12.5%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WordPress is 14.7%, up from 14.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Thomas Becker

Managing Partner(Austria) at a integrator with 11-50 employees

Impressive integration of customer behavior with an easy setup and okay support

I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia Working with big companies, I help them either consider setting up a new content management system or address issues they might have with their existing…

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RICARDO FILIPO

Wordpress Expert at Codeable

Very customizable, and forms the base for most websites on the Internet

I work in the community, and I'm part of a team making the core of WordPress. We are responsible for creating how WordPress will change in the next version. The main point is concurrency. For example, we have Squarespace, Wix, and a lot of other frameworks with the same features and functionalities. All those frameworks are going to a completely no-code experience. Anyone can then have a website. You're just dragging, dropping, and writing texts very easily. It's like using Facebook. WordPress comes from a node way. There was a time when the webmaster needed to code in HTML, PHP, or some language to have a website. It has changed over time, but we still have some old things inside the backend of WordPress. We are currently removing all those old things. Day by day, WordPress will be easier to use and more user-friendly. WordPress needs to improve its usability. That way, it will be easier to create websites, e-commerce, CRM, platforms for education, or anything else. It would be good if WordPress improved its AI. For example, if you have a blog, the blog will be auto-writing. I'm working on this, and we have some solutions. Another feature should be the identification of users. It's related to AI. For example, if you go to a website like Facebook or another social network, it's possible to learn everything about you if you go to that place. WordPress has something like that, but it's not so deep. I am personally working on that feature. Anyone coming to a WordPress website will be identified. It's tricky because we have a kind of privacy to follow, so we need to balance both things.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"If you want to use content in a mobile application and you want the content in some other application, you can simply expose it from the CMS to different clients or different systems. It's easy. On top of that, the technology underlying AEM is open-source and is very powerful like Apache Sling and JCR."

"I like the profiling and segmentation."

"I like the native applications such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform. Because of these, it's very easy to connect and obtain reports on how my website is doing, how many have visited it, how frequently, etc. The multiple publisher concept is one of the best parts of this solution."

"It's a complete package. You don't need to look elsewhere for digital marketing."

"Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them."

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."

"The most valuable features of Adobe Experience Manager include its capability to manage content and create reusable fragments."

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"The best feature in WordPress is Elementor. It lets you easily create one-page landing sites."

"WordPress offers great flexibility."

"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."

"As WordPress is such a popular product, there are many designers and developers available to work on projects."

"The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility."

"The themes are useful. They change the look and feel of a website with just one click."

"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is quite easy to use."

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Cons

"Adobe's technical support is so-so."

"The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies."

"Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user face issues in AEM as a Cloud Service."

"In comparison to other CMS products, Adobe Experience Manager is missing some capabilities such as proper versioning or a better versioning system and backend connectivity. If something is deleted in AEM, the user cannot recover it. You have to call technical support, and they will need to recover the whole instance. So, it's really difficult. For example, if you delete a page, you cannot recover it. There should be an option to recover it. In AEM, you have to go to the previous state of the instance itself or the virtual machine, and you have to restore everything, which is not good."

"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."

"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."

"The latest trend is to render everything in the client-side framework. For example, SPA or single page application. This is a feature that needs improvement. The cloud deployment pipeline needs to be improved as well."

"A little bit of background knowledge of coding and website structure is required."

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"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 recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."

"A user may feel intimidated the first time he or she sees it."

"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."

"I would like to have the ability to customize the whole WordPress installation. WordPress comes with a number of core features. I would love to be able to remove those I'm not using at the moment."

"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."

"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."

"WordPress doesn't automatically scan the website, so we need to install paid plugins for this purpose. Unfortunately, this can lead to slower performance, which is a notable drawback."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."

"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."

"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."

"It's really costly."

"It provides a high ROI."

"WordPress is an open-source product, meaning it is available for free."

"As per my understanding, WordPress is an open-source product, owing to which there are no requirements to make any payments towards its licensing costs."

"I paid to have a WordPress site for two years and didn't just have a free one."

"Set up cost is nothing. Pricing is free. You need to pay a cost only for the domains, hosting, and to buy themes."

"It is an open-source platform. It doesn't need any license."

"WordPress is a free CMS. Installing WordPress is free. The domain and pushing data costs money."

"WordPress is a free solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

48%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

10%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?

It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.

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What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?

While there are many aspects that could be improved, discussing them would require more time. The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies.

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What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia.

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What do you like most about WordPress?

The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WordPress?

The cost of a project using WordPress varies widely and depends on the specific requirements. It can range from as low as $500 to as high as $3,000 or more, depending on the complexity and scope of...

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What needs improvement with WordPress?

WordPress could use improvement in terms of optimization, especially for large websites with extensive databases and many images. When clients want to build projects like Amazon on WordPress, it te...

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Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud

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Overview

Adobe Communique 5 (Adobe CQ5), currently manifested as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a web-based content management system which is developed to help businesses in offering high-end digital experience to their customers.

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that allows users to create and manage websites easily. It offers a wide range of features and customization options, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced users.

One of the key advantages of WordPress is its user-friendly interface. With its intuitive dashboard, users can easily navigate through various settings and options. Additionally, WordPress offers a vast library of themes and plugins, allowing users to customize their websites to their liking.

WordPress also excels in terms of flexibility and scalability. It can be used to create various types of websites, from simple blogs to complex e-commerce platforms. Its extensive plugin directory enables users to add functionality to their websites without any coding knowledge.

Another notable feature of WordPress is its strong community support. With millions of users worldwide, there is a wealth of resources available, including forums, tutorials, and documentation. This makes it easy for users to find solutions to any issues they may encounter.

Furthermore, WordPress is highly SEO-friendly. It provides built-in tools and features that help optimize websites for search engines, improving their visibility and ranking. This is crucial for businesses and individuals looking to increase their online presence.

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