Drupal vs ManageWP | TrustRadius

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Score 7.3 out of 10

Based on 323 reviews and ratings

Score 9.9 out of 10

Based on 13 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Drupal

ManageWP

Role-based user permissions

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API

Internationalization / multi-language

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WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Drupal

ManageWP

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

Drupal is great at managing any amount of content, and any type of content. Its flexibility and customizability are two of its greatest strengths.
Drupal isn't just a CMS, Drupal lets you build the CMS that website editors will be using. Its backend customization and admin features are awesome and are being expanded by the community all the time.
There are thousands of contributed modules and themes freely available. Not only is Drupal open source, but all the best modules and themes people have built are available for free as well!
Drupal's community is big, prolific, and welcoming. Not only can you use other's community contributions, but the community is always happy to help others building their own Drupal sites or custom modules and themes for the rest of the community. If you ever get stuck, the forums or Drupal Slack are incredible resources for assistance.

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Head of Development Technologies

Top Floor TechnologiesInternet, 11-50 employees

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ManageWP consolidates important WordPress site management services into on dashboard.
ManageWP makes backing up, cloning, and restoring websites so easy.
ManageWP provides a simple, easy to use interface.

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Cofounder

Sermo DigitalMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Cons

There are certain limitations in the amount of information that can be passed from Drupal to Salesforce, specifically in areas of how long viewers are on a particular page.
Drupal uses up a ton of memory space, due to how large our sites are, it has been costly to add in the required hardware.

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Verified User

Technician in Marketing

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The reports could be prettier, more templates in order to avoid having to customize for each client so heavily.
It would be nice to see if recommended plugin updates are actually production and not beta versions.

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President & CEO

CX3 Digital MarketingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Drupal 8.2

Based on 18 answers

The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.

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Learning and Development Specialist

Omnitec Solutions Inc.E-Learning, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Drupal 10.0

Based on 9 answers

It's a great CMS platform and there are a ton of plugins to add some serious functionality, but the security updates are too complex to implement and considering the complexity of the platform, security updates are a must. I don't want my site breached because they make it too difficult to keep it up to date.

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Director in Other

Education Management Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Drupal 9.7

Based on 6 answers

Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required.For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).

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Principal Engineer

AcquiaComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Performance

Drupal 8.9

Based on 4 answers

Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.

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Programmer Analyst

Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Drupal 5.0

Based on 8 answers

As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.

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Programmer Analyst

Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees

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In-Person Training

Drupal 8.0

Based on 1 answer

I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.

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Learning and Development Specialist

Omnitec Solutions Inc.E-Learning, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

Drupal 6.0

Based on 2 answers

The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.

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Learning and Development Specialist

Omnitec Solutions Inc.E-Learning, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

Drupal 5.1

Based on 8 answers

Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%

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Programmer Analyst

Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

All of these products are in the same category, but Drupal has a different level of security, making it a much better choice for either blog platform, Websites or Intranets. The product itself is a much more professional offering, stacking up against the competition on templates, extensions and browser support

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CTO

Maila NetworksComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Prior to ManageWP, we utilized InfiniteWP, a free (with paid extensions), self-hosted alternative. We found the interface to be unwieldy, and the paid extension pricing to be a bit confusing. The headache of maintaining the software and server infrastructure to run the platform, overshadowed the cost savings for us.

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Director

Mere AgencyInternet, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

Drupal 8.0

Based on 2 answers

Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.

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Programmer Analyst

Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Drupal takes more investment up front to properly set up the development environment, but once done a Drupal instance can be confidently deployed with continuous development in mind. Cost of long term updates decreases over time.
Many efficiencies are gained with the right integration. We have developed integrations with CRM and ERP systems that automatically replicate data and reduce the need for duplicate data entry scenarios.
Modern responsive design and SEO aware taxonomies make Drupal the ideal platform for building out an inbound marketing strategy with content at the core. Attracting business and building a website that converts visitors into customers is where Drupal shines.

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Director of Marketing

Commercial ProgressionInternet, 11-50 employees

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The ROI is simply amazing. Before we had to dedicate developers to update plugins and WP, now we simply make a backup and click a button.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

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

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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