WordPress CMS vs. Other CMSs

So, none of us want to ruin this for ourselves, and we want to be mindful before making choices. Choosing a CMS for your website is crucial, and we should be aware of what we're choosing. Because once you start your site and change your mind to shift to another CMS, it'll be a nightmare. Hence, making an informed choice is essential here. To do so, we should know what's out there! Let's compare some of the CMSs with the most popular one: WordPress.

In this post, we'll be looking at the face-off between WordPress CMS and four of the industry's most popular and best CMS platforms. These include WordPress vs. DNN, WordPress vs. Sitefinity, WordPress vs. Joomla, and WordPress vs. Kentico. At the end of this post, you should understand how these CMSs stack up against WordPress and choose the best option for your business. So, without further ado, let's dive right in.

Before starting our DNN vs. WordPress face-off, it's worth noting that both CMS platforms have their pros and cons. However, to make it easy for you to choose the better option for your business, we'll be sharing with you their capabilities - in terms of website speed, theme options, permissions, and security.

WordPress vs. DNN: Site Speed

One of the essential factors that everybody needs to consider before opting for a CMS platform is site speed. In case you don't know, site speed is a significant ranking factor, according to Google. A few years back, the company made it known that "it's striving to make the whole web fast." With that, it means for you to get the best out of your website, you need to opt for a platform that guarantees you a swift site speed. Now, here's a burning question, which of the two CMSs (DNN vs. WordPress) is better - in terms of site speed? In practice, speed on either platform depends mostly on hosting, caching, themes, and plugins rather than on the CMS itself (see these page speed statistics).

WordPress vs. DNN: Theme Options

Although both DNN and WordPress have themes, the approach they use in offering them is different. In DNN, themes are only used for styling and visual appearance purposes. Although that's almost the same for WordPress, the difference is that its themes always come with lots of added functionalities

WordPress vs. DNN: Permission & Administration

A CMS platform makes use of user roles to grant permission to a group of users. Interestingly, both WordPress CMS and DNN have built-in user roles - they help define the actions that site users are allowed to do. Out of the box, WordPress comes with six different user roles; administrator, editor, author, contributor, subscriber, and super admin. This managing permission approach is also similar to that of DNN - its user roles include administrator, all users, and registered users.

However, in DNN, the custom user roles and granular permissions are mainly supported in core CMS. This is different in WordPress, as these features are not available in its core system. Instead, for the system to offer such capabilities, you'll have to download third-party plugins.

Well, in terms of permissions, we'll say both WordPress and DNN are perfect for simple sites with small users and user roles. However, if you're looking at creating complex sites with, let's say, more than 25 users, we'll recommend that you opt for DNN. That's because all the features needed to manage granular permissions and user roles are present in the core CMS.

WordPress vs. Joomla: Popularity

In terms of popularity, WordPress is by far the most widely used CMS, with well over half of the CMS market. Joomla, once its closest open-source rival, now holds a much smaller share.

WordPress vs. Joomla: Flexibility

Flexibility is another factor that you must consider before choosing between WordPress and Joomla. Between the two CMS platforms, Joomla offers more flexibility, as it allows easy customization than WordPress.

WordPress vs. Joomla: Security

When it comes to creating a website, everybody needs to take another thing very seriously is security. The popularity of WordPress makes it the center of attraction to hackers and attackers. WordPress has a lot of plugins, which you can always install uniquely.

However, with several plugins available, it'll be challenging to ensure safety standards for all of them. It's also worth knowing that WordPress CMS doesn't come, out of the box, with some basic security features, such as two-factor authentication (2FA). That's why we'll recommend that you opt for Joomla in terms of security. Joomla comes with an option, which helps to force connection over SSL. And apart from that, the CMS platform also comes with Two-Factor Authentication.

WordPress vs. Joomla: Built-In Functionality

As mentioned earlier, WordPress only comes with a few functionalities out of the box. For you to offer more capabilities, you'll have to download more third-party plugins. This is not entirely true for Joomla, as it comes with a lot of built-in functionalities. Some of them include SEO & back-up tools, support of multiple languages, and recovery tools.

WordPress vs. Joomla: Tech Savviness

One of the advantages of WordPress over other CMSs is that it requires zero knowledge of HTML coding. This is not true for Joomla, as you'll need to know the basics of coding to run your website successfully.

WordPress vs. Joomla: Themes & Plugins

Although both platforms have plugins and themes, WordPress CMS offers its users many free and premium options to choose from. This is not the same for Joomla, as the platform only has a few themes or templates. Furthermore, speaking of plugins, both platforms enable the use of third-party plugins. One of the differences, however, is that WordPress has an extensive plugin development community. Besides, WordPress also offers its users the ability to choose from various plugins - this is not true for Joomla!.

WordPress vs. Kentico: Security & Scalability

As earlier mentioned, WordPress is the most popular CMS out there, and it offers tons of plugins. While that is okay, the problem is that you must ensure that all these plugins are up to date to address any vulnerabilities. On the other hand, Kentico is highly secured, as it has its protective layers with the right license. Furthermore, it's also reasonably scalable to use.

WordPress vs. Kentico: Pricing

One of the disadvantages of Kentico, when you compare it to WordPress, can be seen in its pricing option. It's way too expensive than WordPress CMS.

WordPress vs. Kentico: Availability

In terms of availability, we'll recommend that you opt for WordPress. That's because Kentico only offers support for Windows and web-based devices. This is not true for WordPress, as it's mostly supported by all major devices, including Windows, iPhone/iPad/Mac, Web, and Android.

WordPress vs. Kentico: Load Speed

Kentico (now Xperience by Kentico) can deliver content headlessly through an API as well as through traditional page templates, and headless delivery can help reduce load time. As with any CMS, real-world speed depends mostly on hosting, caching, and how the site is built.

WordPress vs. Sitefinity: Compatibility

Another factor that we'll be looking at in our WordPress vs. Sitefinity face-off is the two systems' compatibility. Unlike WordPress, which typically runs on Linux with Apache or Nginx, Sitefinity is built on .NET and traditionally runs on Windows Server. As such, the Sitefinity CMS will be a better option for you if you like using Microsoft technologies and servers.

WordPress vs. Sitefinity: Multi-Media

Unlike WordPress CMS, with numerous plugins for various functions, Sitefinity only comes with limited functionality in terms of its graphics. As such, it means you'll need to have basic knowledge of .Net. If not, you'll always need developers' help from time to time, mostly anytime there's a need for the advanced altering of your site.

WordPress vs. Sitefinity: Support & Learning

Another difference between the two CMS platforms is in their support and learning objectives. In terms of support, WordPress is nothing compared to Sitefinity. Well, that's so because it has several support issues, according to online reviews.

However, this isn't the case for Sitefinity. This platform has productive and rigid support within the user community. An example of its support is the one coming from Progress, which acquired Sitefinity's maker, Telerik, in 2014. Through its Telerik brand, Progress offers several tools for cross-platform application development. Furthermore, it also provides complete technical documentation with code snippets.