Adobe Experience Manager vs WordPress comparison

Adobe and Wordpress are both solutions in the Web Content Management category. Adobe is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6, while Wordpress is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7. Adobe holds a 12.8% mindshare in WCM, compared to Wordpress’s 14.8% 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

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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

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

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 February 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 12.8%, down from 15.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WordPress is 14.8%, up from 13.9% 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

"I've used several CMS tools, but Adobe Experience Manager is feature-rich, especially for web security and content management. It's more efficient to manage content on Adobe Experience Manager, and you can do a lot with it, such as updating content at any time, and on any platform, even from mobile or tablet. Adobe Experience Manager is still getting updated daily, and it's the best CMS tool in the market for me. I like that you can manage assets in Adobe Experience Manager. I also like that the solution has an analytics dashboard that shows you where the traffic comes from, how many clicks come from a specific location, the number of clicks and impressions, etc. Adobe Experience Manager can be accessed by other teams, for example, the digital media department of my company, so the solution can be used and updated per each team's requirement. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a web developer tool, as it also allows visibility tracking and has other uses. I also like that the GUI for Adobe Experience Manager is straightforward and catchy. It has separate folders and icons, so using Adobe Experience Manager isn't tough. The solution is straightforward to use and handle."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Easy to work with the solution."

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"I like the tool's plugins."

"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 product provides capabilities to build modern websites and can be used for various aspects of services."

"Ready-made themes speed the design process; a huge number of quality themes are available from several sources."

"WordPress offers great flexibility."

"Good for rapidly turning around all the elements required for online sales funnels."

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

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Cons

"The licenses are very expensive."

"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved."

"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."

"Adobe Experience Manager could improve by allowing the reuse of components like a progress bar across multiple pages to make the development process more efficient."

"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."

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

"Programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution."

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

"The basic product is becoming less usable by end users for site maintenance post delivery."

"The system should be more informative."

"I think that WordPress is too cool in its contact."

"WordPress needs to improve its usability."

"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."

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's really costly."

"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."

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

"Regarding pricing, we have the flexibility to utilize certain themes and plugins across multiple websites for a single one-time cost. However, there are instances where themes come with only one activation key, limiting their use to a single website. Certain plugins and themes come with a significant cost, with the least expensive theme priced at around $120. Additionally, plugins typically range from $80 to $90 per year for a subscription. Consequently, it can be considered somewhat costly in this regard. Conversely, when it comes to WordPress, there is no expenditure involved."

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

"It provides a high ROI."

"WordPress can be pricey, ranging from $0 to thousands per month."

"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."

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

"WordPress is a free CMS. Installing WordPress is free, although the domain will cost money."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

50%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

10%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

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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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Compared 47% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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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.

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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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