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."It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The themes are useful. They change the look and feel of a website with just one click."
"The product provides capabilities to build modern websites and can be used for various aspects of services."
"The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility."
"Ready-made themes speed the design process; a huge number of quality themes are available from several sources."
"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."
"WordPress offers great flexibility."
"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."
"There are so many free plugins"
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"Make it more intuitive."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"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 support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"The system should be more informative."
"A user may feel intimidated the first time he or she sees it."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"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."
"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."
"In WordPress, the user onboarding process is an area with complexities...there is no step-by-step explanation provided."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Web Content Management with 146 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, Adobe Experience Manager, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Drupal and TerminalFour Site Manager. See our SharePoint vs. WordPress report.
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