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Drupal vs Wordpress.com VIP comparison

Drupal and Wordpress are both solutions in the Web Content Management category. Drupal is ranked #5, while Wordpress is ranked #26. Drupal holds a 6.3% mindshare in WCM, compared to Wordpress’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Drupal users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Wordpress users who would recommend it.
Drupal
Read 37 Drupal reviews
  • 1,252 Views
  • 836 Comparison Views
95% willing to recommend
Wordpress.com VIP
Read 6 Wordpress.com VIP reviews
  • 106 Views
  • 76 Comparison Views
100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Drupal and Wordpress.com VIP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Drupal
Ranking in Web Content Management
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (4th)
Wordpress.com VIP
Ranking in Web Content Management
26th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Drupal is 6.3%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wordpress.com VIP is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user635487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Being free to extend or alter it is important for us.
The open source nature of Drupal, being free to extend or alter it is massively important for us. We also use it to build communications. Not being tied to a single vendor means that we can have scale for developers It gives the company the ability to quickly spin up ideas, and the scalability to…
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it_user1122 - PeerSpot reviewer
I wish Wordpress had come out a long time ago
The only major con I can think of is that, because it's written in PHP, if you make a manual edit to one of the theme configuration files (which you probably will end up doing during customization), and have even one minor typo, it will pretty much break the whole site.So, my recommendation is to BACKUP YOUR FILES BEFORE YOU EDIT SOMETHING and make sure you have access, whether it be physical, FTP or cPanel, to your host server.
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it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
15%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Compared 9% of the time
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Overview

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications
Wordpress.com VIP is the world's most elegant publishing platform and also its most loved. More sites are powered by WordPress than any other Content Management System (CMS) combined.
 

Sample Customers

BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously
Gigaom, Re/code, Grantland, National Post, TIME.com, National Post, LIN Media, NFL Blogs, Tim Ferriss, NextDraft, Metro UK, USA Today, Foreign Policy, NBC
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