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."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"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."
"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."
"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 solution is easy to install."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"Ready-made themes speed the design process; a huge number of quality themes are available from several sources."
"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."
"Good for rapidly turning around all the elements required for online sales funnels."
"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."
"As WordPress is such a popular product, there are many designers and developers available to work on projects."
"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."
"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."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"WordPress sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."
"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."
"The basic product is becoming less usable by end users for site maintenance post delivery."
"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
"WordPress could use improvement in terms of optimization, especially for large websites with extensive databases and many images."
"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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