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Drupal vs SharePoint vs WordPress Business-Enterprise comparison

 

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

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Drupal is 8.0%, up from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 7.3%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WordPress Business-Enterprise is 8.2%, down from 15.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint7.3%
WordPress Business-Enterprise8.2%
Drupal8.0%
Other76.5%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user982032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
A good product that helps me to manage complex digital solutions
My advice to others would be that Drupal is not only a CMS, you need to learn the Drupal fundamentals before to start the project. Drupal is a handy tool whenever you work on a digital infrastructure broad project and not only a simple website. So if you have a big project, you can use Drupal. But if you have a small website, like a blog or simple website, my advice would be not to use Drupal, because Drupal is too complex and the cost to maintain the platform can be too high, related to the value of your website, for example. If you have a website with a big product catalog, for example, in many languages and in many countries in the world, then Drupal is good. But if you have a simple website, like a portfolio or five page-website, you can use many other technologies that'd be simple to maintain and implement. On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Drupal an eight. In the next release, I would like to see basic page buttons and better integration with the analytics platform. A drag and drop function to create simple pages will also be handy. For example, if a customer wants to create a landing page, it should be easy for him or her to do so. I would also like to see better translation management.
reviewer2811600 - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 1 at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
Centralized document governance has boosted collaboration and made knowledge sharing structured
SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifically when working with multiple sites and document libraries. Another improvement would be search functionalities. While it is good sometimes, it does not always return the most relevant result unless a document is very well-structured and tagged. Also, initial setup and customizations can be time-consuming and may require technical expertise, specifically when configuring workflows or permissions. From a modern development perspective, tighter and more seamless integrations with tools including Power Automate and better support for custom backend integrations through APIs could make it more efficient. Overall, simplifying usability and enhancing search and integration capability would make SharePoint even stronger. One additional area I would appreciate improvement would be performance and responsiveness, especially when dealing with a large document library. Sometimes loading or navigating through large datasets can feel quite slow. Another aspect is permissions management. While it is very powerful, it can become complex to manage at scale, specifically when there are multiple levels of access across teams and projects. Improving developer experience would also be beneficial. Making customization, API integrations, and extensions more straightforward would help teams, especially backend developers, leverage SharePoint more efficiently.
Purity  Donovan - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Unilever Inc.
Content management has become faster and now supports flexible online business growth
WordPress Business-Enterprise offers an easy-to-use user interface, coding capabilities, and awesome plugin implementation. There is always a solution available for the platform. Security is easy to use and robust. Implementation with third-party platforms such as Google's variety of tools is excellent. You can download and host on your own server or use their hosted server easily. WordPress Business-Enterprise was made for blogging and remains the king of the industry for it. Its widely adopted use around the world provides a multitude of solutions from plugins to code snippets. It has a super easy-to-use interface, allowing anyone without coding knowledge to jump right in and learn quickly. It is super adaptable to customization. WordPress Business-Enterprise is easy to customize and easy to integrate. It accepts page builders and manages content very well. WordPress Business-Enterprise allows for almost instant execution of any online idea. Its coding structure is easy to work with, especially for custom integrations. Its user-friendliness is simple enough for almost anyone to adapt and learn quickly. Overall, WordPress Business-Enterprise positively impacts the organization because costs are low. Execution is very flexible. The breadth of third-party builders and themes allows deep diversity in builds. WordPress Business-Enterprise is a standard in web builds, so many external companies have built integrations and plugins to the system.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has a huge community and support from all over the web."
"Use Drupal if expandability is a must or if you are building a large website with various kinds of functionality."
"Its scalability, content management practices, security and the community are valuable features."
"The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS, and I like that it's a good product to manage complex digital solutions."
"The site was built on Drupal in three hours."
"The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS."
"It is good for big projects."
"Drupal always rises above for a large scale contributor base, general security, and lack of vulnerabilities."
"Information is much more readily available."
"The latest versions of SharePoint are highly useful for configuring pages for managing and conveying large amounts of information, while giving users the ability to pinpoint the specific things they need with speed and accuracy."
"It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."
"My advice is to not hesitate; just plunge in and implement SharePoint."
"It is very stable."
"I rate it a ten."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"It has allowed my team to seamlessly share requirements with one another and provide feedback while working off one version."
"WordPress is a fast way to present and test online business concepts, events, and marketing activity."
"This program has made it possible for our company to advertise all around the country, instead of keeping it local."
"The ability to upload photos and share them with people all around the world has really made my dream of photographing rockstars a reality."
"With WordPress anyone with or without any coding knowledge can build beautiful robust WordPress websites."
"There are so many free plugins"
"The benefits with the use of WordPress are very large, especially when it is oriented to the sale of products and services."
"The best feature of WordPress is that it provides no-code solutions, enabling us to make anything when we use Elementor."
"WordPress offers great flexibility."
 

Cons

"We had stability issues. I have a lot of 'Out of memory' issues."
"It needs better and more themes available for download, like you have in WordPress."
"Drupal 8 is only 1.5 years old. It has stability issues, but not major ones."
"Drupal community and forums are not as easy and straightforward as Wordpress, the number of areas covered by existing plugins should be larger, and it is resource hungry compared to Wordpress."
"Modifying the themes (colors, dimensions, and pictures) could be easier."
"The technical support is below average as compared to all the other products."
"I think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems."
"The GUI is still not as intuitive as WordPress."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"We are looking for increased functionality on SharePoint or to change to something else."
"The web parts in SharePoint could be more intuitive for end users."
"For example, if you installed SharePoint on a virtual machine with dynamic memory, it could destroy the farm without any possibility of repairing it."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"Achieving our goals in a multi-vendor project was not an easy task because of the 2010 UI."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"Security is a real problem. WordPress should work on improving their security so users do not have to worry about it."
"I think WordPress needs to improve itself in the area of security."
"Modifying tables or graphics format in admin dashboard can be more complicated than other applications like Joomla."
"It could be a little bit easier to use."
"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."
"WordPress sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like to see better pricing."
"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."
"It comes bundled with the Microsoft 365 pricing plans."
"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."
"The platform has medium pricing."
"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."
"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."
"The pricing is competitive."
"The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good."
"WordPress is an open-source product, meaning it is available for free."
"It is an open-source platform. It doesn't need any license."
"I paid to have a WordPress site for two years and didn't just have a free one."
"Set up cost is nothing. Pricing is free. You need to pay a cost only for the domains, hosting, and to buy themes."
"It provides a high ROI."
"WordPress can be pricey, ranging from $0 to thousands per month."
"WordPress is a free CMS. Installing WordPress is free, although the domain will cost 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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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business80
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise81
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise6
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?
I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.
What needs improvement with SharePoint?
It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution. Sometimes ...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
I create a data warehouse and establish a link between different applications. For data exchange, the vendor is Oracle.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WordPress?
The price is very competitive and affordability is very high regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What needs improvement with WordPress?
WordPress Business-Enterprise can be improved because sometimes security is a concern with some of the plugins. I wou...
What is your primary use case for WordPress?
My main use case for WordPress Business-Enterprise is to build and maintain our websites. The plugin elements enable ...
 

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