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Kentico vs Wordpress.com VIP comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Kentico
Ranking in Web Content Management
20th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (18th)
Wordpress.com VIP
Ranking in Web Content Management
21st
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Kentico is 1.8%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wordpress.com VIP is 2.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Kentico1.8%
Wordpress.com VIP2.1%
Other96.1%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1384113 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Flexible, offers helpful web templates, and has good connectivity with third-party applications
Kentico is one of the top solutions on the magic quadrant. Currently, all of the development that we do, we hard-code ourselves. We don't use local development frameworks for other systems. We are looking to expand our use of Kentico by adding no-code or low-code products for rapid development. My advice for anybody who is implementing Kentico is that if they are transitioning into it then be sure to use a phased approach. Don't try to migrate everything right away. I suggest doing it over time and become familiar with the system. If it is only one site then it will not be too difficult, but normally, there are multiple sites. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
DM
CTO at eScribers
It provides flexibility in building and adding plug-ins, but the plug-in interface is not object-oriented.
Not really anything, but the plug-in interface into the system is not object-oriented. It's diffuse, and you feel like you're dropping bits into many places. They're called plug-ins, but you don't feel like you're plugging in your code, but just reaching in with a hundred tentacles. Lastly, the process doesn't feel encapsulated.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Kentico is a very stable and mature system; it's one of the best on the market."
"The most valuable features are its integration capabilities and advanced marketing suite."
"I would say they have a modern, flexible, agile content management system."
"It has helped us establish our business in the USA and allows us to work with a range of corporate clients."
"From a website editor point of view: Very simple straightforward CMS easy to use"
"No doubt, wordpress.com offers great features from newbies to experts."
"This product has excellent value, and good reward for the purpose."
"If you want a website ASAP, that is also search engine friendly, I suggest you download a WP theme and hire a WP developer."
"The community is enormous and everyone is very helpful, and other people have problems already solved."
"Wordpress is an excellent multi-purpose platform with a wide variety of uses and features, including an incredibly large theme base, an incredibly large plug-in base, that it is written in PHP and HTML5 which is an incredibly extensible language, that it is easily transitionable from server to server, that it works very well as a CMS, and that it is scalable and customizable."
 

Cons

"This product needs an out of the box Intranet/Extranet Solution."
"They don't have a lot of libraries, which is something that they can improve on."
"They don't have a lot of libraries, which is something that they can improve on."
"This product needs an out of the box Intranet/Extranet Solution."
"The code behind a WP theme is not easy to modify in case you need additional features not provided by the theme."
"Not really anything, but the plug-in interface into the system is not object-oriented."
"No option to monetize the website (Affiliated links or Advertisements)."
"We are facing issues with outdated plugins and shared hosting security issues, only if WordPress is implemented in dedicated environment it is highly secure."
"As website content and number of visits grow, one does recognize scalability issues for websites on shared hosting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing fees are probably about $100,000 USD per year."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
University
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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Questions from the Community

Does Kentico provide good options for marketing?
Absolutely! I can't stress enough how important marketing is for the digital experience you're giving to customers. If you want to reach your clients through multiple channels, each type of content...
What is the content management system of Kentico like?
In my experience, Kentico has been a very flexible and easy-to-use content management system. Keep in mind that we haven't been using it for a while because our management decided to change DXPs fo...
What do you use Kentico for?
Hello, I think Kentico will serve you well as a digital experience platform and especially for commerce purposes. We at my company have been using this feature of the DXP as well because we recentl...
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