Netlify CMS vs WordPress

Overview

WordPress

Stacks99.3K

Followers41.4K

Votes2.1K

GitHub Stars20.6K

Forks12.9K

Netlify CMS

Stacks523

Followers565

Votes6

Netlify CMS vs WordPress: What are the differences?

Netlify CMS: Open source content management for your Git workflow. It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs; WordPress: 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.

Netlify CMS and WordPress can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Some of the features offered by Netlify CMS are:

Fast, web-based UI
platform agnostic
easy install

On the other hand, WordPress provides the following key features:

Flexibility
Publishing Tools
User Management

Netlify CMS and WordPress are both open source tools. It seems that WordPress with 12.7K GitHub stars and 7.78K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Netlify CMS with 9.22K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, WordPress has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6328 company stacks & 6516 developers stacks; compared to Netlify CMS, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Advice on WordPress, Netlify CMS

Xander

Founder at Rate My Meeting

Mar 30, 2020

Decided

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.

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Dragos

Jan 6, 2020

Decided

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

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Detailed Comparison

WordPress	Netlify CMS
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.	It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.
Flexibility;Publishing Tools;User Management;Media Management;Full Standards Compliance;Easy Theme System;Extend with Plugins;Built-in Comments;Search Engine Optimized;Multilingual;Easy Installation and Upgrades;Importers;Own Your Data	Fast, web-based UI; platform agnostic; easy install; oaut2 and jwt; flexible content types; fully extensible
Statistics
GitHub Stars 20.6K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 12.9K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 99.3K	Stacks 523
Followers 41.4K	Followers 565
Votes 2.1K	Votes 6
Pros & Cons
Pros 418 Customizable 369 Easy to manage 357 Plugins & themes 259 Non-tech colleagues can update website content 248 Really powerful Cons 13 Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things 13 Plugins are of mixed quality 10 Not best backend UI 2 Complex Organization 1 Do not cover all the basics in the core	Pros 3 Open source 2 Free 1 GraphQL API Cons 2 No relations between items
Integrations
ClickTale Clicky Disqus Formstack GoSquared HipChat Hipmob KickoffLabs KISSmetrics LiveChat	React Gatsby

What are some alternatives to WordPress, Netlify CMS?

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Strapi

Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

Wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

Twill

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

ProcessWire

ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do

Typo3

It is a free and open-source Web content management system written in PHP. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2.

Directus

Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.