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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs WordPress Business-Enterprise comparison

 

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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

Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Web Content Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (2nd)
WordPress Business-Enterprise
Ranking in Web Content Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 7.5%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WordPress Business-Enterprise is 12.8%, down from 16.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
WordPress Business-Enterprise12.8%
Liferay Digital Experience Platform7.5%
Other79.7%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Bhavin Panchani - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers integration capabilities that are very easy to use
My company has 20 people who work on the product. I know that my company has around seven customers who use the tool. I recommend the product depending on the use cases of the person who wants to buy it. If your use case is to develop a public site, customer portal, self-service, or intranet, I would say that you should go for the Liferay Digital Experience Platform. If your use cases are related to e-commerce, you need to evaluate your use cases against Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and you can use it if you find it to be a good fit. Otherwise, you should search for other platforms.
Irfani Silviana - PeerSpot reviewer
A versatile platform for web development that has helped me cater to a diverse range of clients
I appreciate the flexibility of WordPress, particularly its filter and action hooks, which allow for the development of additional features. We can build our own plugins into this. We can be creative while following our clients' requirements. For example, I recently built a custom plugin where the client wanted extra functionalities about membership, special profile pages, and a subscription system. And WordPress has helped a lot, thanks to its flexibility. I could use current plugins on the market and then modify them with my own plugin and collaborate with other existing plugins. So, WordPress has reduced a lot of work for me as a developer. With WordPress, I can achieve the functionality that I want. I don't have to do everything from scratch because a few solutions exist in the market, and I can enhance that.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is easy to install."
"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"The integration capabilities of the product are super easy to use."
"I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector."
"Manageability is very good and probably the most valuable part of a tool of this type. There is a little more of a learning curve than you have with a simple tool, but a business user can learn to manage the system as an administrator very easily."
"It allows us to arrange and develop new ideas, then incorporate them into the portal. We can create a one stop information center, so people can access the information from one window."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
"We chose Liferay because it is open-source and that we can make any number of users apply, register into the system and use the system, as opposed to other solutions where the cost is based on user licenses. This is one of the most attractive features."
"The themes are useful. They change the look and feel of a website with just one click."
"The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility."
"It is easy to edit content using WordPress."
"I like the tool's plugins."
"It is a stable system which offers a wide variety of themes and templates."
"Good for rapidly turning around all the elements required for online sales funnels."
"The product provides capabilities to build modern websites and can be used for various aspects of services."
"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."
 

Cons

"It could be improved in terms of adding filters to some of the rules. Therefore, you can retain how long a document would need to stay in an archive."
"It could have better built-in integration with a wider variety of extensions out-of-the-box."
"The documentation provided needs to be more detailed. It's sometimes hard to develop things because the documentation is so sparse."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
"Social area and capabilities need improvement."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
"WordPress needs to adapt to new technologies. It also needs to improve scalability. We don't have optimized content and plugins in the tech stack."
"In WordPress, the user onboarding process is an area with complexities...there is no step-by-step explanation provided."
"WordPress doesn't automatically scan the website, so we need to install paid plugins for this purpose. Unfortunately, this can lead to slower performance, which is a notable drawback."
"The backend development process needs improvement."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"WordPress could use improvement in terms of optimization, especially for large websites with extensive databases and many images."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"It is a bit expensive."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive. What Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers at its current price can be considered something that is worth the money."
"The pricing is very reasonable because WordPress is an open-source platform."
"Set up cost is nothing. Pricing is free. You need to pay a cost only for the domains, hosting, and to buy themes."
"WordPress is a free solution."
"It provides a high ROI."
"It is an open-source platform. It doesn't need any license."
"Regarding pricing, we have the flexibility to utilize certain themes and plugins across multiple websites for a single one-time cost. However, there are instances where themes come with only one activation key, limiting their use to a single website. Certain plugins and themes come with a significant cost, with the least expensive theme priced at around $120. Additionally, plugins typically range from $80 to $90 per year for a subscription. Consequently, it can be considered somewhat costly in this regard. Conversely, when it comes to WordPress, there is no expenditure involved."
"WordPress is a free CMS. Installing WordPress is free. The domain and pushing data costs money."
"WordPress can be pricey, ranging from $0 to thousands per month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
13%
Hospitality Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
11%
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is the best feature of Liferay?
A tricky question because it'd depend on what your focus will be on Liferay as a digital experience platform. I mean, if for me the experience management is the best feature, for someone with diff...
Is Liferay suitable for complete beginners?
A non-developer here, and frankly, a little bit of a tech beginner in general. My company branched out into digital experience a bit later than we should have but picking Liferay as a DXP was one o...
What is Liferay’s capacity for backup?
Yes, I think you can trust the cloud feature of Liferay pretty well. It gives you the option to back up your data as well as restore it and that's pretty vital for any digital experience platform....
What do you like most about WordPress?
The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WordPress?
WordPress is good with search engine optimization if you use the plugins.I use WordPress because it is an inexpensive solution for small projects.
What needs improvement with WordPress?
The area that could be improved in WordPress is the security feature. The security features need to ensure they don't rely too much on external plugins for security. WordPress needs to have its own...
 

Also Known As

Liferay DXP
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Sample Customers

Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
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