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Drupal vs WordPress Business-Enterprise comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Drupal
Ranking in Web Content Management
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (4th)
WordPress Business-Enterprise
Ranking in Web Content Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 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 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 (%)
WordPress Business-Enterprise8.2%
Drupal8.0%
Other83.8%
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.
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."
"At Appnovation Technologies we leverage Drupal’s out of the box features and functionality in order to speed up development and delivery time for our clients."
"Because of Drupal, we now have the ability to provide our customers with multilingual, multi-regional content to an extent that would not have been possible otherwise."
"It is good for big projects."
"You can build websites on it very quickly."
"Use Drupal if expandability is a must or if you are building a large website with various kinds of functionality."
"We use a part of the solution called Acquia. The personalization portion of this is the most valuable aspect fo the solution."
"Drupal is an open source content management system which provides an easy installation process, a good range of modules for features' expansion, as well as a supportive community that will help resolve issues that you face with Drupal."
"Good for rapidly turning around all the elements required for online sales funnels."
"Ready-made themes speed the design process; a huge number of quality themes are available from several sources."
"It's improved our speed to market."
"WordPress offers great flexibility."
"The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility."
"The themes are useful. They change the look and feel of a website with just one click."
"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 user-friendliness and its strong SEO capabilities."
 

Cons

"I think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems."
"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."
"It is a little bit simplified."
"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."
"Migration from one major version to the next major version requires significant effort."
"It needs a shorter learning curve."
"Digital experience features like target, segmentation, and campaign management have a long way to go."
"If you have a high traffic site and speed is important, to optimize Drupal you will probably need an expert."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
"One of the most major down points: everyone and their dog tries to hack it."
"WordPress sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."
"I think that WordPress is too cool in its contact."
"Backups and moving sites could be handled better."
"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."
"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."
"The plugins have to be tested and monitored frequently as some of them lead to the website crashing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like to see better pricing."
"Set up cost is nothing. Pricing is free. You need to pay a cost only for the domains, hosting, and to buy themes."
"WordPress is a free solution."
"The pricing is very reasonable because WordPress is an open-source platform."
"As per my understanding, WordPress is an open-source product, owing to which there are no requirements to make any payments towards its licensing costs."
"WordPress is a free CMS. Installing WordPress is free. The domain and pushing data costs money."
"WordPress is an open-source product, meaning it is available for free."
"It is an open-source platform. It doesn't need any license."
"WordPress can be pricey, ranging from $0 to thousands per month."
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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
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
University
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

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

Questions from the Community

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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 would also note that not all plugins work with our favorite themes, which represent...
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 us to customize the type of support we need for various circumstances. I particu...
 

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