Symfony vs WordPress | TrustRadius

Likelihood to Recommend

Symfony, for me, is the best PHP framework. To date, its only competitor is Laravel which offers modules similar to those of Symfony. Many extensions are available and easily integrated to save development time and stability.

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Employee in Research & Development

Internet Company, 1001-5000 employees

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WordPress is ideal for website management, especially if the person overseeing the website has minimal experience with WordPress. This is because the program is fairly easy to learn. You can quickly learn how to add posts and new pages, or simply duplicate existing content to serve as a starting point for new content. It's easy to preview content before it goes live and you can even schedule content to go live on a certain day/time.

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Jess Messenger

Account Director

Mulberry Marketing CommunicationsPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

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Role-based user permissions

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WordPress

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

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WordPress

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

Your coding speed will be increased thanks for Symfony Flex, a feature based on Symfony Recipes, a set of automated instructions to integrate third-party packages into your application.
The learning curve is just great for any kind of developer, from a junior to a senior, thanks to all the great documentation you will be able to get up to speed in a could of hours with any kind of application.
The code quality of Symfony makes it, as of today, one of the best architected and cleanest PHP frameworks available.

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services 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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Lisa Keyser

Owner | Principal

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

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Cons

For less complex projects, Laravel or Silex (or even WordPress) can be used. Symfony is better for enterprise products than just for the fun of it.
There are always debates regarding Sonata Admin for Symfony, but while there are people who dislike it, we use it and heavily rely on it.

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Zee Gimon

Digital Operations Manager

The App SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 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

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WordPress 8.4

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

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WordPress 8.8

Based on 18 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

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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

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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

Symfony 7.0

Based on 4 answers

There is a lot of community support but because Symfony is so flexible and unopinionated, there are too many ways to do things and if you lock yourself into one way, most of the advice online will not work for you.

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James Hilton

Director Of Development

LabRootsPublishing, 11-50 employees

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WordPress 8.1

Based on 13 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

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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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Lori Berkowitz

Web Developer

BeeDragon Web ServicesInternet, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

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WordPress 9.0

Based on 10 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

Symfony has become such a standard that many frameworks which previously may have been seen as competition, are actually adopting Symfony components to allow them to focus more on what makes their solution unique. Drupal 8 has replaced much of its low-level internal code with Symfony components. Laravel utilizes much from Symfony and builds on it. CakePHP was my preferred framework over Zend and CodeIgniter, but now I typically prefer Symfony or Laravel depending on the type of application and complexity of what I'm doing.

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Ben McClure

Head of Development Technologies

Top Floor TechnologiesInternet, 11-50 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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Verified User

Account Manager in Marketing

Design Company, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

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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

One negative thing to point out of Symfony is how painful it is to migrate legacy or relatively old projects from previous versions of Symfony into newer versions.
Symfony projects are usually reliable and provide the results you need.
Performance can be an issue sometime depending on the kind of project you are working on. Symfony can have some issues with cache.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

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We don't have a web dev on our team currently, but we've referred many clients to a WP developer we partner with and have earned commissions off of those referrals
Faster sites have campaigns that perform better, leading to higher lifetime customer value
We use affiliate marketing tools on our site as well

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Director in Sales

Marketing & Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

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Feature Rating Comparison

Role-based user permissions

API

Internationalization / multi-language

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

Symfony

WordPress

Cons

Symfony

WordPress

Likelihood to Renew

Symfony

WordPress

Usability

Symfony

WordPress

Reliability and Availability

Symfony

WordPress

Performance

Symfony

WordPress

Support Rating

Symfony

WordPress

In-Person Training

Symfony

WordPress

Online Training

Symfony

WordPress

Implementation Rating

Symfony

WordPress

Alternatives Considered

Symfony

WordPress

Scalability

Symfony

WordPress

Return on Investment

Symfony

WordPress

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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