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AEM vs WordPress: What are the differences?
Developers describe AEM as "A comprehensive content management solution for building websites *". It is a web-based client-server system for building, managing and deploying commercial websites and related services. It combines a number of infrastructure-level and application-level functions into a single integrated package. On the other hand, *WordPress** is detailed as "A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability". The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
AEM and WordPress can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
WordPress is an open source tool with 12.7K GitHub stars and 7.78K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WordPress's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, WordPress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6328 company stacks & 6516 developers stacks; compared to AEM, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.
10 Years ago I have started to check more about the online sphere and I have decided to make a website. There were a few CMS available at that time like WordPress or Joomla that you can use to have your website. At that point, I have decided to use WordPress as it was the easiest and I am glad I have made a good decision. Now WordPress is the most used CMS. Later I have created also a site about WordPress: https://www.wpdoze.com
Pros of AEM
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable414
- Easy to manage365
- Plugins & themes353
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content257
- Really powerful246
- Rapid website development144
- Best documentation77
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source17
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base7
- Open Source Community5
- Most websites make use of it5
- Best5
- Perfect example of user collaboration5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice5
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin5
- API-based CMS4
- Community4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
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Cons of AEM
Cons of WordPress
- Plugins are of mixed quality12
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things12
- Not best backend UI9
- Complex Organization2
- Great Security1
