Tridion vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Tridion (formerly SDL Tridion) aims to connect people, processes, and information through a complete portfolio of collaborative Content Management, Knowledge Management and Headless delivery technologies. Combine with Accelerators for fast time-to-value and RWS Translation Management solutions for global reach. Its key components include: Tridion Sites provides web content management capabilities, connecting people, processes, and information across teams, brands, and markets,…N/A
WordPress VIP
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
TridionWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
TridionWordPress VIP
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
TridionWordPress VIP
Security
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Tridion
9.0
9 Ratings
12% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Role-based user permissions9.09 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Tridion
9.1
8 Ratings
17% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
2% below category average
API8.36 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language10.07 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Tridion
8.5
8 Ratings
11% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.2
2 Ratings
8% above category average
WYSIWYG editor8.08 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.07 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Admin section9.08 Ratings8.32 Ratings
Page templates9.08 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Library of website themes8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.07 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.08 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Form generator8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Tridion
7.6
8 Ratings
4% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.1
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Content taxonomy9.07 Ratings7.31 Ratings
SEO support9.06 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Bulk management9.08 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.35 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Community / comment management3.03 Ratings9.12 Ratings
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TridionWordPress VIP
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
TridionWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(22 ratings)
8.6
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.3
(15 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(2 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(19 ratings)
User Testimonials
TridionWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
RWS Group
Love the product and I really like how we use it for public sites. The only negative aspect is that it is just hard to find Tridion devs that understand the tool, grasp .net, react, and understand the blueprint, etc.
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Automattic
WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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Pros
RWS Group
  • Makes it easy to spin up a new site quickly
  • Allows for numerous users to work on the same site without conflicting with each other's changes
  • Allows you to unpublish changes or revert to old versions if you make a mistake
  • Allows you to time publishing actions (for example, you can set it to happen overnight)
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Automattic
  • Security - class leading security, ensuring sites are protected and operate hassle free
  • Scalability - provide patches and updates first before the market place
  • Reliability - up to 99.9% up time, with a fantastic track record
  • Performance - hitting the high notes for Core Web Vitals and ensuring WordPress is operating at its peak performance
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Cons
RWS Group
  • Tridion is complicated in enough ways that it makes it difficult to train new users. Therefore, we have to limit the number of people with access to the system since we have not yet implemented Workflow.
  • When something goes wrong (items fail to publish, or there is unexpected behavior with components), there is little explanation provided that would point us in the right direction to troubleshoot. As a result, content Authors and Editors have to frequently ask for IT assistance.
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Automattic
  • Too many different dashboard formats
  • Everything should have the same look and feel.
  • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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Likelihood to Renew
RWS Group
I am giving this a semi-high rating because we have already got Tridion up and running and we are still in the process of moving the sites over to Tridion. It is unlikely we will be moving things to a new CMS AGAIN in the near future as the cost to get Tridion was high.
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Automattic
It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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Usability
RWS Group
The editor user interface is very user friendly and in-site editing makes simple updates fast and easy. The extensibility of Tridion is a big plus and the ability to add our own options into the default Tridion interface helps us integrate with external systems. Finally, the user permissions and security system helps us deploy it within our large organization.
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Automattic
There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
RWS Group
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Automattic
The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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Alternatives Considered
RWS Group
It is a nuclear missile compared to the other handguns and knives on the market today. But it also requires nuclear technicians and expertise that a handgun doesn't require. Do you need to decimate your competition and you have the investment capabilities necessary to put a nuclear missile into the sky? Then definitely do it. Especially if you need a very good multi-lingual blueprint provider like Tridion.
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Automattic
Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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Return on Investment
RWS Group
  • SDL is a very complex system. Creating custom components by external vendors turned out to be expensive.
  • The learning curve is very slow, so training takes a lot of time and cost.
  • The revamped corporate site looks clean, modern, and is mobile-friendly.
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Automattic
  • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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