Sitecore Experience Platform vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sitecore Experience Platform
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/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
Sitecore Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Sitecore Experience PlatformWordPress 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
Sitecore Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Experience Platform
8.0
1 Ratings
0% below category average
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.01 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Experience Platform
6.8
1 Ratings
10% below category average
WordPress VIP
8.2
2 Ratings
8% above category average
WYSIWYG editor7.01 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Admin section7.01 Ratings8.32 Ratings
Page templates8.01 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design6.01 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Publishing workflow6.01 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Experience Platform
6.8
1 Ratings
4% below category average
WordPress VIP
8.0
2 Ratings
9% above category average
Content taxonomy8.01 Ratings7.31 Ratings
SEO support6.01 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Bulk management8.01 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Community / comment management5.01 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Digital Experience Platform
Comparison of Digital Experience Platform features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Experience Platform
7.4
1 Ratings
22% below category average
WordPress VIP
-
Ratings
Campaign management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud enablement6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content aggregation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content classification9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-channel content personalization6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
DXP Third-Party Integrations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Digital asset management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Sitecore Experience Platform
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
7.5
2 Ratings
2% below category average
API00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings5.92 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Sitecore Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
Small Businesses
Kentico Xperience
Kentico Xperience
Score 7.1 out of 10
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Sitecore Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.6
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(19 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sitecore Experience PlatformWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
Sitecore
We need to spend a lot of time to learn things in Sitecore Experience Platform. I used it for 6 years and there was always something new to learn. Try to start using shortcuts as soon as you start working on it as it really saves a lot of time. Sitecore Experience Platform has maximum number of features which is good but then you need to spend time learning them all
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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
Sitecore
  • Sitecore has a decent supply of out of the box components and capabilities that can be fairly easily styled to meet business needs without much customization needed. This often helps speed to market.
  • Sitecore has had the flexibility of offering on-premise hosting or cloud hosting to meet different needs of clients, though recently they have strongly pushed their cloud-based hosting. This is in alignment with the industry and very helpful for organizations that aren't looking to add another product to the portfolio of packages that their internal IT teams need to manage
  • Sitecore has a capable UI for editing content. Though some competition may do better in this regard, Sitecore's editing interface is fully capable.
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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
Sitecore
  • Searching something is difficult, we need to backtrack a lot within Sitecore Experience Platform
  • I found Sitecore Experience Platform to be a bit slow, it takes time to load things
  • Its difficult to work with when we need every page and components to have translations
  • Publish items and subitems is possible but sub-sub items need to be published manually or we need to create scripts
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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
Sitecore
No answers on this topic
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
Sitecore
Implemented for various projects such as:›Market and sales intelligence Competitor tracking Management moves Social media tracking Customized information sourcing. Use web-scraping and parsing for data harvesting where the search is keyword-based and, the content and data extractions are required from various websites•Implemented for diverse requirements:›Social media tracking›Image recognition›Pricing comparison›Competitor content mapping›e-Commerce products’ cataloging, etc.
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Automattic
There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
Sitecore
1. Customized software development & maintenance. 2. Technology Consulting - Consulting-based services for technology solutions data engineering or cloud solutions. 3. Used for tapping into multiple data sources such as CRM and marketing automation systems and, creating automated data extracts with a high-end visual representation of data. 4. Implemented for scheduling an existing report to automatically refresh and be delivered to specific users at a specific regular interval.
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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
Sitecore
All of these platforms have their pros and cons. Selecting the best fit is a matter aligning corporate need vs features provided. Have a .NET shop with an advanced marketing team looking to push UX forward and willing to pay a premium, then Sitecore may be the right fit. Have an organization centered around Java and only looking for basic CMS capabilities or looking for a budget-friendly option, then there may be better options beyond Sitecore.
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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
Sitecore
  • We faced issues while integrating it with other tools like Marketo and salesforce
  • Difficult to manage translations in this CMS
  • Easy to create user roles, categories, page structure and tags
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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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