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Drupal vs Wordpress.com VIP comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Drupal
Ranking in Web Content Management
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd)
Wordpress.com VIP
Ranking in Web Content Management
19th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Drupal is 9.5%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wordpress.com VIP is 2.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Drupal9.5%
Wordpress.com VIP2.1%
Other88.4%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user982032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
A good product that helps me to manage complex digital solutions
My advice to others would be that Drupal is not only a CMS, you need to learn the Drupal fundamentals before to start the project. Drupal is a handy tool whenever you work on a digital infrastructure broad project and not only a simple website. So if you have a big project, you can use Drupal. But if you have a small website, like a blog or simple website, my advice would be not to use Drupal, because Drupal is too complex and the cost to maintain the platform can be too high, related to the value of your website, for example. If you have a website with a big product catalog, for example, in many languages and in many countries in the world, then Drupal is good. But if you have a simple website, like a portfolio or five page-website, you can use many other technologies that'd be simple to maintain and implement. On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Drupal an eight. In the next release, I would like to see basic page buttons and better integration with the analytics platform. A drag and drop function to create simple pages will also be handy. For example, if a customer wants to create a landing page, it should be easy for him or her to do so. I would also like to see better translation management.
DM
CTO at eScribers
It provides flexibility in building and adding plug-ins, but the plug-in interface is not object-oriented.
Not really anything, but the plug-in interface into the system is not object-oriented. It's diffuse, and you feel like you're dropping bits into many places. They're called plug-ins, but you don't feel like you're plugging in your code, but just reaching in with a hundred tentacles. Lastly, the process doesn't feel encapsulated.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Drupal is the opposite, since it is not closed software and it does not rely on only one company."
"The ability to create a complex website with a few developments is the most valuable feature, that's what got me started."
"Views, terms, panels, and entity conception. It is a very useful and fast solution to build successful web applications."
"Drupal CMS helped in the realization of content-rich web sites that combine article presentation with sophisticated, back-end admin functionality."
"If you need an open-source, scalable and secure CMS, then go for Drupal."
"Drupal always rises above for a large scale contributor base, general security, and lack of vulnerabilities."
"With over 23,000 contributed modules, there’s a high chance that any feature you want has already been built, and is available for you to use at no cost."
"Drupal is the most powerful and flexible CMS."
"Wordpress is an excellent multi-purpose platform with a wide variety of uses and features, including an incredibly large theme base, an incredibly large plug-in base, that it is written in PHP and HTML5 which is an incredibly extensible language, that it is easily transitionable from server to server, that it works very well as a CMS, and that it is scalable and customizable."
"This product has excellent value, and good reward for the purpose."
"The community is enormous and everyone is very helpful, and other people have problems already solved."
"No doubt, wordpress.com offers great features from newbies to experts."
"From a website editor point of view: Very simple straightforward CMS easy to use"
"If you want a website ASAP, that is also search engine friendly, I suggest you download a WP theme and hire a WP developer."
 

Cons

"It needs a shorter learning curve."
"It needs a better UI for the back-end user."
"Since Drupal is not developed for any specific use cases, it has some learning curve and requires effort to learn."
"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."
"I think Drupal has to improve the UX for some administrative pages, such as the modules list page."
"Creating complex content types (involving translations), is still a very slow and painful process."
"We had stability issues. I have a lot of 'Out of memory' issues."
"The main complaints of the clients or newcomers to Drupal are about the UX of the admin interface."
"The code behind a WP theme is not easy to modify in case you need additional features not provided by the theme."
"We are facing issues with outdated plugins and shared hosting security issues, only if WordPress is implemented in dedicated environment it is highly secure."
"As website content and number of visits grow, one does recognize scalability issues for websites on shared hosting."
"No option to monetize the website (Affiliated links or Advertisements)."
"Not really anything, but the plug-in interface into the system is not object-oriented."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like to see better pricing."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
10%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise11
No data available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Find out what your peers are saying about Drupal vs. Wordpress.com VIP and other solutions. Updated: June 2026.
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