Contentstack vs. WordPress

WordPress is a legacy technology historically built for webpage layouts, hindering the ability to quickly reach customers across all digital channels and touchpoints. With modern technology like Contentstack, you can deliver content to any platform or device at scale, ensuring a consistent omnichannel brand experience required in the digital age.

While WordPress can be used as a headless CMS, it is not inherently designed for this purpose. Integrating with modern front-end frameworks and workflows may require additional customization and development effort. Purpose-built APIs provided by Contentstack allow you to manage content more easily with highly structured modular content designed for content reuse across your technology stack.

WordPress's API functionality for content is an afterthought, introducing limitations for how content gets visualized on the front-end. Contentstack has native omnichannel capabilities with API-first content delivery that allows for seamless customization and flexibility based on your evolving business needs.

Custom solutions for WordPress might not scale as seamlessly as they would on platforms designed with extensive API-first capabilities. With Contentstack, you can adapt to changing customer needs by leveraging 3rd party tools in our Marketplace and partner ecosystem to quickly deploy new omnichannel experiences at scale.

WordPress site owners must manually apply security updates, which can result in vulnerabilities for enterprise customers who require current security patches. Contentstack is SOC-2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified with multi-cloud capability, a global CDN with 130 PoPs up to 99.99% availability, and meets the strict requirements of enterprise-grade content and data security.

Contentstack is the first and only composable platform available globally on all 3 major cloud providers — AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. This allows our customers to choose which provider best suits their business needs and goals.

WordPress does not provide dedicated customer support since it is an open-source platform. Enterprise customers must rely on forums and community resources or hire 3rd party developers. Contentstack provides dedicated customer care through our Technical Solutions Organization and the industry’s only cross-vendor support program, Care Without Compromise™.