We performed a comparison between Liferay Digital Experience Platform and WordPress based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Wordpress, Adobe and others in Web Content Management."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 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."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."
"I like the tool's plugins."
"It is easy to edit content using WordPress."
"The standout feature is its high degree of customization. Creating user-friendly, easily maintainable websites is a breeze, especially with the convenient admin access."
"As WordPress is such a popular product, there are many designers and developers available to work on projects."
"It is a stable system which offers a wide variety of themes and templates."
"It has a vast array of themes which could be applied to make the website visually look more appealing to the target market."
"The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility."
"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."
"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."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"In WordPress, the user onboarding process is an area with complexities...there is no step-by-step explanation provided."
"WordPress needs to improve its usability."
"Backups and moving sites could be handled better."
"The backend development process needs improvement."
"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."
"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 system should be more informative."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
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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, Sitecore Experience Platform and Drupal, whereas WordPress is most compared with SharePoint, Quintype, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal and TerminalFour Site Manager.
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