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 solution is easy to install."
"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"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."
"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 look and feel and the user interface are great."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"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."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"I like the tool's plugins."
"WordPress offers great flexibility."
"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."
"This program has made it possible for our company to advertise all around the country, instead of keeping it local."
"It is easy to edit content using WordPress."
"It is a stable system which offers a wide variety of themes and templates."
"There are so many free plugins"
"The best feature of WordPress is its user-friendliness and its strong SEO capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."
"A user may feel intimidated the first time he or she sees it."
"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."
"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 improve its usability."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"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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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, SharePoint, Drupal and HCL Digital Experience, 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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