NationBuilder vs WordPress | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 4 out of 10

Based on 8 reviews and ratings

Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 2839 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

NationBuilder

WordPress

Role-based user permissions

NationBuilder

WordPress

API

Internationalization / multi-language

NationBuilder

WordPress

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

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WordPress

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

Great platform for managing website, social media, and donations in a single dashboard.
Some particularly helpful features includes turf maps for walking door to door.
I really appreciate the included voter files.

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Verified User

Partner in Marketing

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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WordPress is incredibly easy to set up and get running with little to no technical knowledge. Most web hosts will do it for you, since it's so easy.
With thousands of themes available for free and for low cost, WordPress can accommodate any design you can imagine.
The community behind WordPress is generous, and there are loads of educational opportunities both online and in person to learn and connect with other users.

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Owner | Principal

LMK Web Design & ConsultingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Cons

NationBuilder lacks the ability to create a message board.
NationBuilder needs to add threaded comments so you can respond to people who comment on your page.
NationBuilder needs to make it easier to offer tiered memberships.

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Social Media Liaison

Chumney & AssociatesPolitical Organization, 501-1000 employees

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WordPress breaks often so you need to have someone who understands how to troubleshoot, which can take time and money.
Some plugins are easier to customize than others, for example, some don't require any coding knowledge while others do. This can limit your project if you are not a coder.
WordPress can be easily hacked, so you also need someone who can ensure your sites are secure.

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Manager in Human Resources

Events Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 8.2

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 9.1

Based on 17 answers

I give it an 8 rating because it's a great piece of open-source software that can be customized easily. There is an ease of use and the customizations are a treat. There are a lot of themes to choose from (though paid themes are the best as they provide more support).

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 9.5

Based on 6 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 4 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

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 6.9

Based on 21 answers

WordPress itself only has community service so your experience will depend on where you turn. Online, through forums and community boards, support is rudimentary but effective. You can easily turn to your local community and find exceptional individuals who know and use WordPress regularly for more advanced, inexpensive, support. I'm rating this less than 10 because of the lack of any formal support provided by a company.

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Verified User

Consultant in Marketing

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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WordPress 7.0

Based on 1 answer

Varies by the person providing training. High marks as it's incredibly easy to find experienced individuals in your community to provide training on any aspect of WordPress from content marketing, SEO, plugin development, theme design, etc. Less than 10 though as the training is community based and expectations for a session you find may fall short.

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Consultant in Marketing

Internet Company, 1-10 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

No answers on this topic

WordPress 9.0

Based on 18 answers

WordPress is not a great solution if you have:1) A larger site with performance / availability requirements.2) Multiple types of content you want to share - each with its own underlying data structure.3) Multiple sites you need to manage.For very small sites where these needs are not paramount, WordPress is a decent solution

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

It is difficult to compare WordPress and NationBuilder because they are completely different. NationBuilder is a closed system that is specifically made to accomplish certain things. WordPress is largely an open source product with thousands of plugins, extensions, and expandability. However, because of its increased versatility, some clients gravitate toward WordPress over NationBuilder.

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Verified User

Professional in Professional Services

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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We have considered and operated within Shopify and Squarespace. Both serve their purpose for niche clients, but we do recommend WordPress as being the superior option. We find that WordPress is easier to use and offers maximum scalability while the others are more challenging to design, code, configure and launch.

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Account Manager in Marketing

Design Company, 11-50 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

NationBuilder is very affordable, making it easy to provide a return.
We see a great ROI based on the simple fact that so much data can be accessed and analyzed from a single platform.

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Verified User

Partner in Marketing

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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WordPress helps us reduce website management costs because we can oversee updates in-house.
WordPress is easy to use, reducing the amount of time we spend on website management.
The ease of use enables us to offer website management for clients, helping us grow our capabilities/business.

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Account Director

Mulberry Marketing CommunicationsPublic Relations and Communications, 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

Starting Price

$35 per month

NationBuilder Editions & Modules

Edition

Starter	$35.00¹
Pro	$159.00¹

per month

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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