Wordpress vs Drupal Comparison Chart

Pros

WordPress is efficient, and it has evolved dramatically over the past few years allowing developers to build and scale better than ever before. Companies and organizations love WordPress as it allows for so many customizations, but still an intuitive UI that they can navigate through.

Cons

Sometimes WordPress performance is slower than desired when compared to Drupal.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

Wordpress allows you to get a site setup quickly. There is plenty of documentation on the web and on Wordpress' site to get you started. There is a lot of functionality that comes right out of the box with Wordpress that cuts down on development time significantly.

Cons

Wordpress doe not scale very well for large traffic sites as well as Drupal.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

I like the ease of use for clients. I find Wordpress easier to use for individuals compared to Wordpress.

Cons

I would like some more of the feature that you can build in Drupal

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

Free and easy software for creating blog posts and simple websites

Cons

I wish them would mimic the UI of Drupal.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Rating breakdown

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

I like that WordPress is a content management software, which means all my content is dynamic and can be used in many different places, as compared to designing in static HTML. It’s easy to use and organize pages, posts, and products.

Cons

This is my first CMS so I don’t have much to compare with drupal or Joomla or Drupal.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

I have worked in many CMS including Joomla and Drupal. Wordpress simplicity and ease to do thing Kill all others.

Cons

I dont like critics who compare this with other complex CMS and say negative, just cause this is so simple and they dont know the right way to do so.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

It's damn simple and easy create and launch your website. As we're business plan users so we also got free domain and SSL Cert. Secondly, as everything is cloud based so you need to waste money in hosting and creating backups.

Cons

With every update from Plugin or Theme there's a new conflict which is really disheartning for us. As there's no option with us except disabling all the plugins to check the issue or change the theme. Secondly, there's very limited scope of help being provided by the WP Support team.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

This software is very easy to use, but also robust enough to accomplish bespoke and complex solutions. With the recent developments in WP's Api system and the Gutenberg Content blocks the future is bright. This is the first place I look when developing sites for clients.

Cons

I wish the fields API was more of a first class citizen like Drupal.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

User-friendly, I like that you can access the templates, php and css and other files in the CMS interface.

Cons

Having used a lot of other CMS, I found the support much less expansive and helpful as Drupal. I rarely ever run into a problem with Drupal that I can't find the answer to.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

Support and Huge user-base is the most awesome thing about WordPress. Started using it as blogging platform some 11 years ago but now I use it extensively as a platform for web magazine, Shopping cart (thanks for WooCommerce) and Product website. I am no developer but still able to deploy and use it without any hassle. Even slight modifications can be implemented with ease thanks to responsive community support.

Cons

I cannot even think of any. WordPress has come a long way becoming the most powerful CMS I've ever known.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

The level of customization coupled with ease of use for non-developers puts WordPress above other template based platforms or more development friendly platforms. Easy to use for all levels of editors.

Cons

Occasionally a plugin will become outdated or break a site... pretty easy to revert back to before the break and fix but that's my only con.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

I enjoy working with Wordpress. When i needed to spin up a web site quickly, i found that i was able to scan through many free Wordpress templates and modify one quickly. The are also many plug ins for word press to do just about anything.

Cons

Word Press is not as drag and drop as other web site editors. I think part of that is that it is built for the true design professional not the buisiness owner who is trying to quickly spin up a web site

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Monthly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

It is easy to use compared to the previous CMS - Drupal. There should be more functionalities that I have not tested out because the development is done by our website agency.

Cons

We use Ninja Form for the web form but the countries are spelled out too long. For example, Britain is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. While it must be an official name, they should list it in a common way.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

I wp ups never go back to the good old drupal.

Cons

Wordpress has continuous updates that must be kept up with. You have to manually do it and then go through a manual update of your theme and plugins so that it doesn't brake anything on the site.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

It has everything you need for a website that works for you. So easy to create blog posts or new pages and add images/videos to them. There are loads of themes and plugins to choose from so you can alter the design or functionally to suite your needs.

Cons

There is so many themes, plugins, features it can be a bit overwhelming for normal users and they wouldn't know where to start.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

As a digital marketer and web developing professional, I have found that Wordpress is the easiest yet flexible CMS I've used. I'm able to create a website, with either a custom or templatized looked, within a few hours. It is the ideal CMS to use when you're building a site for non-developer individuals as it can be built to have a block-like look on the backend and publishing a blog can take literally 5 minutes. The number of plugins available has grown tremendously over the past 5 years, enabling site owners to connect various 3rd party tools and change the look of their site without need to adapt the code.

Cons

While plugins offer a 'simple' way of changing the look of your site, you are much more limited in the design aspect than if you were to use a different CMS, like Drupal or Sitecore.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

It is far more user-friendly than Drupal and the flexibility it offers for custom fields and plugins beats most any other CMS out there.

Cons

I have very few complaints, beyond some issues I've had with plugins, which are usually developed outside of Wordpress and can be hit or miss.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

In a world of competition blooming between Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress it can farely be said that Wordpress stands out.

Cons

Wordpress has a disadvantage of not having the option to buy themes as a demo. Or apart from themes we could get them at lower prices

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

Much better than the jungle of Joomla or Drupal.

Cons

Some plugins like WooCommerce are not as fast as the core and can slowdown the overall page performance. No convenient way to manage the many notifications the plugins generate.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

Wordpress is a great way to start a simple site. It allows you to easily add pages and choose themes or templates that are free or you can use premium themes to jazz up your store. You can find any theme that fit your personal or business image. You can add images, videos, and use plugins to give you more flexibility. Wordpress allows me to create a blog. The blog allows me to keep daily, weekly or post monthly entries about the latest promotions to my store. I even built a customizable ecommerce beauty shopping store. I have been using Wordpress for about seven years and I love it!

Cons

Wordpress is an open source platform. Open source means it is free to use. However, because the platform is free. There is limited phone support. Typically you will have to rely on the support of the community to help get your questions answered. I think if there was more support many people would use it.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

The most useful feature of Wordpress still -in my humble opinion- is its versatility. You could install a template theme and build a simple website in seconds, or create an IMS or a digital ecosystem without any hustles (or maybe some triggers to help you coordinate third-party software)

Cons

It has not any features yet to customize the CSS file without having to code. That would make it easier for non-coder users. Also, Wordpress has been under the fire lately for not having better security features and being susceptible to attacks.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

Great features out of the box, possibility of self hosting, open source.

Cons

Managing plugins can be a mess. You can break your site with an update.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

The sheer volume of plugins makes it an extremely flexible platform. The ability to enable, disable, and update these easily also makes it a very robust product. The abundance of Wordpress themes also means that your ability to customize the interface is limitless.

Cons

If you're going to use a hosting provider, it's probably very easy to setup. For a self-hosted environment, it's a little more complicated. Having said that, if you're going to self-host you should expect it to be somewhat involved.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

I liked that it took very little time to make a nice looking site that was fairly decent for SEO.

Cons

Because of the way wordpress is built, you never know when your site is going to self destruct. Not running updates left you open to massive security vulnerabilities, while running updates was a 50/50 chance of destroying your site.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Wordpress

Website creation and publishing platform

Pros

As with WordPress, you can't beat the price - FREE.

Cons

Like WordPress, Drupal requires some coding skills.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 1-2 years

Frequency of use: Other

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

I like the customizality that drupal offer to developer in terms of configurations.

Cons

The plugin library is rather limited in comparison to Wordpress.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Very flexible Tons of themes and modules Available on managed cloud sites

Cons

More difficult to configure than Wordpress (but also way more powerful)

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Recommendations to others considering Drupal

Rely on the community of developers, they're passionate and highly skilled

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

I used to make Wordpress websites, and when I gained experience, I decided to create them on Drupal.

Cons

Drupal has the same problem as WordPress - many free templates, but almost all have a terrible design.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Monthly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

It`s very versatile and powerful if you know what you`re doing.

Cons

There aren't nearly as many plugins, themes and resources as for other CMS such as WordPress.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Drupal is one of the good platforms for creating a new website. Setting up a website with Drupal is easy. One can understand its features very easily. Drupal is getting advanced day by day.

Cons

I found wordpress as an better alternative.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Works well and seems like a cool way of organizing everything. Definitely enterprise class.

Cons

Can be confusing to do basic things that I know in Wordpress. Less plugin options and support.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Once I got to know this CMS and how it works, I loved it! I'm not web developer and Drupal has given the power to create more dynamic and robust websites. I have only once ran into a problem that couldn't find the answer in Drupal extensive support forum! It's amazing how everyone helps each other out with CMS. I have not seen any other CMS that has such a robust community of developers and support in the forums.

Cons

It works very differently from other CMSes and is more difficult to get familiarized with than Wordpress. If you need a very simple website, I would recommend WordPress.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

I like the interface and sometimes is better than it's main competitor wordpress. Really useful interface.

Cons

Plugins and themes are obviously more difficult to find than the main competitor wordpress, but even this you can find really good ones.

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Weekly

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

In contrast to other CMS like Wordpress or Joomla, you should not have problems to find what you are looking for in Drupal.

Cons

For some reason, it is a little harder to find good themes for Drupal compared to Wordpress or Joomla.

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

I understand this software comes with the best security features, so important for projects that are sensitive to be hacked while working in groups or communities.

Cons

For freelancers and small businesses, why not use WordPress (or even Joomla) that is so easy to use and yet get the same or even better result!

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

THe flexibility of Drupal while it is still user-friendly wins every time. Other sitebuilders like WP and Webflow are extremely feature rich, but harder to use day-to-day. Simpler builders like Wix and Squarespace are great for newbies, but not as flexible. Drupal floats that line so anyone can use it but experts can make so much more of it. And it's free!

Cons

Image sizing did kind of limit us with our blogs - there were strict requirements on aspect ratio that I didn't find very helpful. However, that may have since been resolved or a limitation we placed on ourselves for consistency.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

The one thing I think Drupal has going for it is it's options for existing plugins and themes, but that's all.

Cons

I would choose a more optimized CMS like Wordpress if you're shopping CMSes

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Using this platform, we managed to create dozens of portals that work fine today. Drupal has a user-friendly interface and navigation, as well as good search engine optimization.

Cons

For this engine, a significantly smaller number of plugins are developed than for WordPress.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

It is a very complete CMS. It has many essential functions by default to create any type of web page without having to install additional plugins.

Cons

The installation is a bit more complicated than Wordpress or Joomla.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

It does about the same job of organizing content as WordPress. A lot of the features are the same as other open source CMS available.

Cons

It has less templates, modules (Plugins) and a smaller community than WordPress. If you are going to use the platform having some development skills is important.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

It is a better version of Wordpress, and helps you develop websites faster than starting from scratch and needing to learn a lot of code.

Cons

This is old! No one uses this anymore. Also php is dead! Everyone should move on

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Monthly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

It is a standard layout, similar to wordpress, that makes Drupal intuitive.

Cons

The process to do certain things is very unintuitive and there are no tooltips to help you along the way. Often I get stuck trying to d a basic thing and have to ask someone for help-only for them to explain that I've completely misunderstood how this other type of content or section functions. Why can't they all function the same way?

Rating breakdown

Time used: 6-12 months

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

I like Drupal because it offers a huge number of additional functions, including content management, a visually appealing interface, easy navigation, and search engine optimization.

Cons

In comparison with WordPress, a smaller number of plug-ins has been developed for this engine.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Drupal allows you to relate pages and custom objects together to create very dynamic pages. It's the kind of CMS you want if you manage a lot of different pages that link together. It had great multilingual support and is very stable. It's clean and after some training it's not too difficult to use.

Cons

Overall I think the learning curve for Drupal is much steeper than something more simple like Wordpress, but of course you tend to get more advanced functionality with that added complexity.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

At the time I remember it being more difficult to use than Wordpress, but more user friendly than Joomla.

Cons

Difficult to set up. Not a large user base, but larger than Joomla I believe (going off of how easy it was to get questions answered when I ran into issues).

Rating breakdown

Time used: Less than 6 months

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Once I got comfortable using Drupal I'm very impressed. The security and flexibility are second to none. I haven't made the switch to Drupal 8 (and I hear it's very different) but I look forward to learning it.

Cons

But same can be said for WordPress. The learning curve was a bit steep as well.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

The Drupal platform has a clear interface in which we initially just had to navigate. Differs in high stability. The support service actively helps to cope with the difficulties encountered.

Cons

For CMS Drupal, it is an order of magnitude harder to find quality themes than for Joomla or Wordpress. It takes a lot of time and effort to bring the appearance to a normal state.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Weekly

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Once understood, Drupal is a very powerful and capable content management system. There are plenty of existing modules and themes to assist you with your website build making customisation easy.

Cons

Drupal is not as user-friendly to setup and develop in as a content management system like WordPress. There is a steeper learning curve before you can really get the most out of this platform.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 2+ years

Frequency of use: Other

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform

Pros

Drupal is an open-source CMS that works well when set up correctly. I've seen a lot of websites that have been built by developers that have never worked with Drupal before, and then the end result can sometimes be a nonsensical nightmare, especially for the content administrators. Drupal has the ability to create custom built websites with powerful integrations to countless other platforms, and it can really shine when Drupal experts handle the builds.

Cons

People who are used to Wordpress or Squarespace don't find it as intuitive, and without proper training, creating and publishing content properly is difficult.

Rating breakdown

Time used: 1-2 years

Frequency of use: Daily

Likelihood to recommend

Drupal

Open Source Content Management Platform