Adobe Experience Manager vs WordPress Business-Enterprise comparison

Adobe and Wordpress are both solutions in the Web Content Management category. Adobe is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5, while Wordpress is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. Adobe holds a 12.0% mindshare in WCM, compared to Wordpress’s 13.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Adobe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Wordpress users who would recommend it.

Adobe Experience Manager

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95% willing to recommend

WordPress Business-Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Adobe Experience Manager and WordPress Business-Enterprise 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager

Ranking in Web Content Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (7th), Enterprise Social Software (5th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)

WordPress Business-Enterprise

Ranking in Web Content Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 12.0%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WordPress Business-Enterprise is 13.2%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Thomas Becker

Managing Partner(Austria) at a integrator with 11-50 employees

Impressive integration of customer behavior with an easy setup and okay support

I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia Working with big companies, I help them either consider setting up a new content management system or address issues they might have with their existing…

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RICARDO FILIPO

Wordpress Expert at Codeable

Very customizable, and forms the base for most websites on the Internet

I work in the community, and I'm part of a team making the core of WordPress. We are responsible for creating how WordPress will change in the next version. The main point is concurrency. For example, we have Squarespace, Wix, and a lot of other frameworks with the same features and functionalities. All those frameworks are going to a completely no-code experience. Anyone can then have a website. You're just dragging, dropping, and writing texts very easily. It's like using Facebook. WordPress comes from a node way. There was a time when the webmaster needed to code in HTML, PHP, or some language to have a website. It has changed over time, but we still have some old things inside the backend of WordPress. We are currently removing all those old things. Day by day, WordPress will be easier to use and more user-friendly. WordPress needs to improve its usability. That way, it will be easier to create websites, e-commerce, CRM, platforms for education, or anything else. It would be good if WordPress improved its AI. For example, if you have a blog, the blog will be auto-writing. I'm working on this, and we have some solutions. Another feature should be the identification of users. It's related to AI. For example, if you go to a website like Facebook or another social network, it's possible to learn everything about you if you go to that place. WordPress has something like that, but it's not so deep. I am personally working on that feature. Anyone coming to a WordPress website will be identified. It's tricky because we have a kind of privacy to follow, so we need to balance both things.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Adobe Experience Manager is pretty stable."

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

"Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them."

"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."

"If you want to use content in a mobile application and you want the content in some other application, you can simply expose it from the CMS to different clients or different systems. It's easy. On top of that, the technology underlying AEM is open-source and is very powerful like Apache Sling and JCR."

"I like the native applications such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform. Because of these, it's very easy to connect and obtain reports on how my website is doing, how many have visited it, how frequently, etc. The multiple publisher concept is one of the best parts of this solution."

"Easy to work with the solution."

"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."

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"We use WordPress on two different websites and it solves all of our website issues."

"It is a stable system which offers a wide variety of themes and templates."

"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."

"Ready-made themes speed the design process; a huge number of quality themes are available from several sources."

"The standout feature is its high degree of customization. Creating user-friendly, easily maintainable websites is a breeze, especially with the convenient admin access."

"Good for rapidly turning around all the elements required for online sales funnels."

"The best feature in WordPress is Elementor. It lets you easily create one-page landing sites."

"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."

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Cons

"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved."

"Adobe Experience Manager could improve by allowing the reuse of components like a progress bar across multiple pages to make the development process more efficient."

"Programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution."

"Adobe's technical support is so-so."

"The licenses are very expensive."

"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."

"A little bit of background knowledge of coding and website structure is required."

"There is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be transferred or synced to the production environment, there is no direct way of doing the sync."

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"WordPress could use improvement in terms of optimization, especially for large websites with extensive databases and many images."

"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."

"I would like to see a new UI."

"It could be a little bit easier to use."

"The basic product is becoming less usable by end users for site maintenance post delivery."

"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 sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."

"WordPress needs to improve its usability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."

"It's really costly."

"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."

"WordPress is a free CMS. Installing WordPress is free, although the domain will cost money."

"It is an open-source platform. It doesn't need any license."

"WordPress can be pricey, ranging from $0 to thousands per month."

"I paid to have a WordPress site for two years and didn't just have a free one."

"WordPress is an open-source product, meaning it is available for free."

"The pricing is very reasonable because WordPress is an open-source platform."

"WordPress is a free CMS. Installing WordPress is free. The domain and pushing data costs money."

"Regarding pricing, we have the flexibility to utilize certain themes and plugins across multiple websites for a single one-time cost. However, there are instances where themes come with only one activation key, limiting their use to a single website. Certain plugins and themes come with a significant cost, with the least expensive theme priced at around $120. Additionally, plugins typically range from $80 to $90 per year for a subscription. Consequently, it can be considered somewhat costly in this regard. Conversely, when it comes to WordPress, there is no expenditure involved."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

University

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?

It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.

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What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?

The content is created as Adobe Experience Manager has an author, publisher, and dispatcher. However, there is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be t...

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What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?

We are working on digital experience platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager or Sitefinity. It's for powering their customer-facing website, not the transaction portal, but the brochureware port...

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What do you like most about WordPress?

The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WordPress?

WordPress is good with search engine optimization if you use the plugins.I use WordPress because it is an inexpensive solution for small projects.

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What needs improvement with WordPress?

The area that could be improved in WordPress is the security feature. The security features need to ensure they don't rely too much on external plugins for security. WordPress needs to have its own...

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Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud, Adobe CQ5

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Overview

Adobe Communique 5 (Adobe CQ5), currently manifested as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a web-based content management system which is developed to help businesses in offering high-end digital experience to their customers.

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WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that allows users to create and manage websites easily. It offers a wide range of features and customization options, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced users.

One of the key advantages of WordPress is its user-friendly interface. With its intuitive dashboard, users can easily navigate through various settings and options. Additionally, WordPress offers a vast library of themes and plugins, allowing users to customize their websites to their liking.

WordPress also excels in terms of flexibility and scalability. It can be used to create various types of websites, from simple blogs to complex e-commerce platforms. Its extensive plugin directory enables users to add functionality to their websites without any coding knowledge.

Another notable feature of WordPress is its strong community support. With millions of users worldwide, there is a wealth of resources available, including forums, tutorials, and documentation. This makes it easy for users to find solutions to any issues they may encounter.

Furthermore, WordPress is highly SEO-friendly. It provides built-in tools and features that help optimize websites for search engines, improving their visibility and ranking. This is crucial for businesses and individuals looking to increase their online presence.

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