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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Magnolia

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Founded in Switzerland in 1997, Magnolia is a CMS used to build composable digital experiences. Magnolia helps create fully integrated customer experiences and speeds up digital delivery of content. Magnolia boasts 480 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world. They further state that their enterprise customers include Sanofi, Generali, the Atlassian, The New York Times, Harley Davidson, and Union…

    $3,500

    per month

    WordPress

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AWordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.

    $3

    per month 6 GB storage

    Pricing
    MagnoliaWordPress
    Editions & Modules
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Personal
    $4
    per month 6 GB storage
    Premium
    $8
    per month 13 GB storage
    Business
    $25
    per month 50 GB storage
    Commerce
    $45
    per month 50 GB storage
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MagnoliaWordPress
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing for Business and Commerce plans vary on number of GB.
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    Community Pulse
    MagnoliaWordPress
    Considered Both Products
    Magnolia
    Chose Magnolia
    For us, Magnolia is the best option for our needs. FirstSpirit by eSpirit is missing on the list. We are moving away from FirstSpirit as it feels outdated. Wix has better usability, but is not suitable for enterprise. WordPress I would only recommend for private projects. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Prior to using Magnolia as an enterprise CMS solution, different teams leveraged different website platforms including WordPress, Weebly, and others. While these other platforms may be slightly more user friendly to the content editor, they don't offer nearly the same amount of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    The Broadleaf CMS was quite basic and was not a full fledged CMS and hence we had to chose Magnolia to address the business requirement for our B2B platform
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is not as costly as other enterprise grade platforms and is easier to deploy, more reliable and less resource hungry. It's often also easier to use and certainly easier to use than it's Open Source counterparts. It also manages content in a much more structured manner …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Similar to how one might choose a specific programming language to solve a specific problem, Magnolia has its place among the rest, depending on the use case. While it does not have the most pleasant user experience compared to others, its customization options are streets …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Of all the ones we looked at that met our requirements Magnolia was clearly the best value for money and had a solid background that you could trust and that could take care of you in case of problems.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Putting all together: capabilities, support, community and price... Magnolia is the best combination, maybe not the best on each aspect, but for sure in the combination
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    I choose Magnolia in front of everyone since it is one of the content managers that best adapts to all the modifications that are required by businesses
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    One of the most important points that magnolia has over other products is the possibility of extending its functionalities. Being open-source, it is possible to inspect how everything is done and replicate it to change functionalities. In this way, many features that customers …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    I use magnolia because my client asked for it in the beginning because he had a long history of using magnolia for years. I think magnolia is middle-hight rated in the stack of similar products. Maybe it's not very well-publicized and it needs better marketing techniques or …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Good documentation and examples Online demos to mess with and test functionalities Easier to install Better knowledge about the product Ability to centralize content of the same type in apps Better performance in some scenarios Better usability: In the newest versions, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is affordable and better for small scale projects. Also, the features are easy to understand and use. Magnolia offers just what we need. We couldn't have chosen a better tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    There is much to desire about Magnolia over the alternatives. First I would say is the cost which is relatively lower. In addition, no one can despite the capabilities of Magnolia thanks to the many features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Our enterprise selected Magnolia.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is a good solution where you have a very simple buying and checkout process and don't require the additional flexibility or additional functionality built on top of the framework.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    I've used a number of Content Management Systems in the past that have similar features to Magnolia including custom ones that aren't widely used or can be listed, but Drupal is probably the most comparable. I would say that Drupal is more kind to custom code and overall …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is the most flexible, with the best ease of use in all cases. It just has the best of both worlds. It is significantly more than just a CMS. And you have a good foundation for building up your platform without losing possibilities to change parts in the future.
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    Automattic
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    Features
    MagnoliaWordPress
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Magnolia and WordPress
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    70 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    131 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.170 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Magnolia and WordPress
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.7
    107 Ratings
    API8.562 Ratings8.997 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.762 Ratings8.481 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Magnolia and WordPress
    Feature
    Magnolia
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.3
    137 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.566 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.466 Ratings7.0123 Ratings
    Admin section8.071 Ratings8.7135 Ratings
    Page templates8.973 Ratings9.0132 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.01 Ratings6.5134 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.564 Ratings9.0133 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.574 Ratings8.7128 Ratings
    Form generator6.959 Ratings9.0106 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Magnolia and WordPress
    Feature
    Magnolia
    7.5
    70 Ratings
    WordPress
    8.6
    135 Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.664 Ratings8.9115 Ratings
    SEO support7.264 Ratings8.7121 Ratings
    Bulk management7.658 Ratings7.4102 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.963 Ratings8.7124 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.952 Ratings9.2124 Ratings
    User Ratings
    MagnoliaWordPress
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (79 ratings)
    8.4
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (37 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (69 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)