Comparing Magento with WordPress is like comparing apples to oranges because these are two extremes that cannot be compared. Both of them are equally good and discussed a lot in the world of Website development.
When we start peeping in the hole, we come across many similarities, differences and some limitations that are related to Magneto development and WordPress development.
What are Magento and WordPress?
Magento is a powerful open-source e-commerce solution. It is designed to customize, manage, set-up and run your online portal. It provides maximum flexibility, scalability, and control.
WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. It is probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. It allows you to create a beautiful website that truly represents your business.
Also, WordPress emerged as the most widely used blogging platform. It still is! But now it has also emerged as a leading content management system that supports much compliance and delivers optimal performance in various scenarios.
WordPress Vs Magento — Similarities
On the surface level, these two platforms might seem to be very similar as they both are very SEO friendly, highly customizable, can be extensively themed, and provides a strong online support community. In addition to all this, both Magento and WordPress are a content management system that enables addition, modification, and management of the content in simple yet highly effective manner.
Magento Vs WordPress — Differences
When we analyze in more depth we come across many vivid differences between Magento and WordPress that are key deciding factors when we make a choice between them…
1) Difference based on programming language: WordPress is an open source website tool that has its programming contained within a set of sequenced PHP scripts while Magento is specifically developed for e-commerce and is object-oriented. It is spread across a great number of files and folders.
2) Security: Magento is also more secure than using WordPress third party plugins.
3) Development Scenario: Magento files are set up across a number of files and folders that share the same name. Where in WordPress all the files are largely contained within the same folder but have a unique naming convention. WordPress has its famed “Widgets” – objects that control the structural elements and design within a template. Magento has both CMS static blocks and widgets – while widgets offer a higher level of overall functionality.
4) E-commerce Plugins: Magento was developed specifically for eCommerce. Just by navigating through the Magento Admin Panel, you’ll notice that an overwhelming majority of it is devoted to eCommerce capabilities like shipping options, payment integration, inventory, price management, gift cards, or order fulfillment whereas for WordPress e-Commerce plug-ins are limited.
5) Based on Selling of products: If the sole purpose of your website is for blogging and content management and you are not intended to sell more than 20 to 25 products then the suitable platform for you is WordPress whereas if your goal is to sell products, then using Magento is highly recommended.