We performed a comparison between SharePoint 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."We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"The standout feature is its high degree of customization. Creating user-friendly, easily maintainable websites is a breeze, especially with the convenient admin access."
"It is a stable system which offers a wide variety of themes and templates."
"Ready-made themes speed the design process; a huge number of quality themes are available from several sources."
"I like the tool's plugins."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its flexibility, ease of working with, intuitive interface, and ease of finding a huge online community, along with its simplicity of integration with other solutions."
"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."
"It is easy to edit content using WordPress."
"This program has made it possible for our company to advertise all around the country, instead of keeping it local."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."
"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."
"WordPress sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."
"The system should be more informative."
"Backups and moving sites could be handled better."
"It could be a little bit easier to use."
"WordPress needs to improve its usability."
"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."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Web Content Management with 150 reviews while WordPress is ranked 2nd in Web Content Management with 28 reviews. SharePoint is rated 7.8, while WordPress is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WordPress writes "Very customizable, and forms the base for most websites on the Internet". SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and OpenText Documentum, whereas WordPress is most compared with Quintype, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal and TerminalFour Site Manager. See our SharePoint vs. WordPress report.
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