Craft vs WordPress | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 7.8 out of 10

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 2503 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Craft

WordPress

Role-based user permissions

Craft

WordPress

API

Internationalization / multi-language

Craft

WordPress

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Craft

WordPress

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

Craft is built to digital products developers, so its workflow is great.
It has a very nice interface and is a beautiful tool.

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Raphael Sanguinete

Diretor Criativo e Produtor

RebuliçoEntertainment, 1-10 employees

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It is constantly being improved, with new features added, because of the community code-sourcing aspect.
Security vulnerabilities are continually being patched to keep it secure.
It has the best plugin repository, by far. So, anytime you have a needed new feature for your website, there is usually a plugin that already exists to allow you to do what you're wanting.

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Director of Marketing

Kuali, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.

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Principal

Versa Studio LLCInternet, 1-10 employees

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One of the major advantages of WordPress is it is an open source software but sometimes it becomes its disadvantage since it is an open source it is always at the target of hackers especially if the codes have been written by someone else.
When you install lots of plugins the website becomes laggy or stutters it takes time to complete the process.

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Danish Mirza Baig

Freelancer

Self-employedConsumer Services, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 9.5

Based on 37 answers

My rating is based on the knowledge I have of the community that WordPress has had built around it for years now. It's as solid as it comes when you talk about community involvement and expansion. There's no other CMS out there that can match-up with it, hands down.

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Mathew Riexinger

VP of Online Marketing

mriexinger@gmail.comMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 8.5

Based on 15 answers

It's a sophisticated but easy to use piece of software. Many of the content addition pieces are familiar from other pieces of software so there isn't a huge learning curve. And for new areas, there is a lot of info on WordPress.org as well as other WordPress help sites.

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Sharon Hurley Hall

Professional blogger, writer, journalist

Sharon Hurley Hall, WriterWriting and Editing, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 9.5

Based on 3 answers

Anyone can visit WordPress.org and download a fully functional copy of WordPress free of charge. Additionally, WordPress is offered to users as open-source software, which means that anyone can customize the code to create new applications and make these available to other WordPress users.

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Martin Aranovitch

Founder, WPTrainMe.com - WordPress Training Plugin

WPTrainMe.comE-Learning, 1-10 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 8.6

Based on 2 answers

Mostly, any performance issues have to do with using too many plugins and these can sometimes slow down the overall performance of your site. It is very tempting to start adding lots of plugins to your WordPress site, however, as there are thousands of great plugins to choose from and so many of them help you do amazing things on your site.If you begin to notice performance issues with your WordPress site (e.g. pages being slow to load), there are ways to optimize the performance of your site, but this requires learning the process. WordPress users can learn how to optimize their WordPress sites by downloading the WPTrainMe WordPress training plugin (WPTrainMe.com) and going through the detailed step-by-step WordPress optimization tutorials.

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Martin Aranovitch

Founder, WPTrainMe.com - WordPress Training Plugin

WPTrainMe.comE-Learning, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Craft 9.7

Based on 3 answers

Responsive chat with founders to answer any questions you have.

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Verified User

Consultant in Engineering

Banking Company, 1-10 employees

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WordPress 7.9

Based on 12 answers

I give this rating, which I believe to be a great rating for a community based support system that's surrounding it. Most platforms and products have their own, and as WordPress does have their own team that help here and there, a lot of it's handled by community involvement with dedicated users who are experts with the system who love to help people.

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Mathew Riexinger

VP of Online Marketing

mriexinger@gmail.comMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It is very easy to find online resources to learn how to do just about anything with WordPress.

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Web Developer

BeeDragon Web ServicesInternet, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 9.0

Based on 10 answers

As someone who learned how to install and configure WordPress and then began performing the service professionally for other local businesses, and finally ended up teaching and training business owners about the benefits of using WordPress and developing WordPress training products, I am constantly amazed when I hear from business owners that their sites have taken weeks or even months to get built and how much they have paid for it. Getting a professional WordPress site built and fully configured requires only hours or a couple of days. If you learn how to do it yourself, the only cost you have is registering a domain name and getting a web hosting account, which is a requirement for any website. Additionally, WordPress website owners can be up and running and growing their presence online even before deciding on a specific web design "look" for their sites. You can start with any web template and change your theme as soon as you find the design you like, and everything that you have added to your site will remain the same.I have grown to love WordPress, as have thousands of other WordPress users, and I have always taught in my business seminars and workshops that, unless what you plan to do online requires some specific custom-built complex application, then consider using WordPress. WordPress is the ideal platform of choice to consider for most business website needs - it can save you thousands of dollars on web development costs and it puts you in the driver's seat of your own online vehicle!

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Martin Aranovitch

Founder, WPTrainMe.com - WordPress Training Plugin

WPTrainMe.comE-Learning, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Craft has a completely unique tool set that has functionality that really is not duplicated any where else in the industry. It cannot really be compared to any other tool I have had experience with, especially with the larger cloud infrastructure that Invision has built around their plugin and their platform.

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Sr. Product Designer

Four Winds InteractiveComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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WordPress offers a combination of power and ease of use that no other system matches. For 98% of all small business websites it is completely capable and is going to be easier for clients to use, resulting in fewer support issues. In the rare cases where something is needed that WordPress simply isn't suited to, I find that Drupal usually provides a solution that works.

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Owner

DaneMorgan.comOnline Media, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 10.0

Based on 1 answer

WordPress is completely scalable. You can get started immediately with a very simple "out-of-the box" WordPress installation and then add whatever functionality you need as and when you need it, and continue expanding. Often we will create various WordPress sites on the same domain to handle different aspects of our strategy (e.g. one site for the sales pages, product information and/or a marketing blog, another for delivering products securely through a private membership site, and another for running an affiliate program or other application), and then ties all of these sites together using a common theme and links on each of the site's menus.Additionally, WordPress offers a multisite function that allows organizations and institutions to manage networks of sites managed by separate individual site owners, but centrally administered by the parent organization. You can also expand WordPress into a social networking or community site, forums, etc.The same scalability applies to web design. You can start with a simple design and then scale things up to display sites with amazing visual features, including animations and video effects, sliding images and animated product image galleries, elements that appear and fade from visitor browsers, etc.The scaling possibilities of WordPress are truly endless.

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Martin Aranovitch

Founder, WPTrainMe.com - WordPress Training Plugin

WPTrainMe.comE-Learning, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

We used the free version of Craft, so it had a positive impact for us.
Craft helped us undestand how to manage some parts of our projects, so it had a positive impact for us.

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Raphael Sanguinete

Diretor Criativo e Produtor

RebuliçoEntertainment, 1-10 employees

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Because the WordPress platform is free and hosting is not expensive, WordPress usage can positively impact maintenance cost of running a small ecommerce website or a medium-sized blog.
Many software companies release free WordPress modules, making it easy to assemble a site with basic functionality quickly.

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Michael D. Bower

Chief Strategy Officer

SellryInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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