DotNetNuke and WordPress both are widely known for their features and flexibility in Content Management Systems (CMS), However, both are built and established with different technologies and programming languages that come with their quality and features. It depends on the requirements and built functionalities (available inbuilt or external plugins or extensions) you need for your CSM. Here we have listed significantly different points after comparing both the CMS Platform.
Technologies:
DotNetNuke is built on ASP.NET and Microsoft.NET Framework and SQL Server as a backend database management system whereas WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL as the backend. ASP.NET and SQL Server have better performance and capability to handle workload and performance with the scalable web application systems where PHP and MYSQL Have limitations.
Customization and Flexibility:
Both Web CMS is built to change the layout and design completely in form of a Theme or Skin. Thousand of third-party readymade themes and skin are available to purchase and apply to both platforms and can be designed as per requirements. Both CMS allows getting external functionality that can be injected along with inbuilt as an Extension or Plugin. Comparatively DotNetNuke Extension and Themes require more effort and technical knowledge for the Microsoft Technology Developer and Designers whereas PHP takes less effort and technical expertise based on the structure of both the platforms but CMS has a mechanism to add or remove plugins or extensions as an extended functionality and theme or skiing as a custom layout design.
Administration:
WordPress has pages and plugins whereas DotNetNuke has drag-and-drop extensions on the page which makes it more visual and easy to manage the pages. WordPress comes with very basic features and thousands of free and paid extensions can be installed to enhance the feature whereas DNN has an inbuilt set of Extensions that come as free which can be enhanced as those are open source as a complete solution for any web application come as Microsoft user membership and management feature which allows thousand of user get registered with customized profiled and registration fields and those get scalability and performance with the best balance of ASP.NET web mechanisms like caching, security, performance, optimizations, etc.
Support and Community:
Both CMS have their networks and ecosystems to find thyroid party extension and layout themes, and a bunch of experts and companies working and offering services for both the CMS and free or paid third-party functionality or design.
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Security Measures:
DotNetNuke is known and tested for the best security and scalability, DotNetNuke users all the attach prevention techniques like DDOS, XSS with cookie tokens, SQL Injection, and SSRF for the inbuilt extension and the framework but it's always advisable to select experienced developers who developers and designs new extension for your DNN Platform. WordPress is being hacked many times with different attacks and it again applies to the same rule, an experienced developer team can save your efforts by keeping your CMS secure and safe from hacking attempts.
Permissions and Workflow:
DotNetNuke has an inbuilt permission mechanism stored with Microsoft Membership at the database level, which means each user belongs to specific or multiple roles and every role has a set of permissions to view/edit or modify settings. The workflow is something that can be configured at the DNN; it’s an approval process by different users or sets of users before the action gets published to the website. If we talk about the same for WordPress, through third-party extension it can be achieved. If you have a small team and user or content/website manager both the CMS can work for you but if you need a complete process of approval as workflow and very specific with allowing managing or editing content by a specific team or users then DNN is the better for your needs.
SEO:
WordPress has powerful free and third-party plugins that help content writer suggest keywords and analyze articles, paid services of several plugins makes a major difference while writing the content search engine specifically. Both DNN and WordPress allow Meta, title, keyword, etc dynamic assignments to the post or pages. Theme or Sin Header tags with containers and breadcrumbs or dynamic navigation titles make an impact on SEO so choosing an experienced development team helps you to utilize the best practice and techniques to get maximum advantages of the CMS while designing and implementing the theme.
Open Source:
Both DNN and WordPress come as an open-source framework which means freely available to download the latest version of code and modify or use it for your customization purpose. Various support plans are available and offered by different companies for a time frame or one-time development. DotNetNuke offers a support plan and Paid version of DNN in different flavors of DNN Evoq which has extended inbuilt functionality and support plans. DNN Offers multiple webs managed with a single set of code and database and single or multiple interfaces for the different webmasters to manage their multilingual websites. Compare to .NET and MS Sql hosting PHP / MYSQL is cheaper for WordPress but it has limitations with handling workload and consecutive user operations.
Every CMS has its limitation and advantages it’s your responsibility to choose the framework wisely to meet your requirements. WordPress is mainly utilized for blogging and small to mid-level marketing websites or Content Management purposes but it can be expanded to large-scale applications with many interactive users. Both CMS comes with a powerful interface and administration features the development team plays a great role in helping your vision to a reality and effective solution. We have had DNN Developers working with DotNetNuke Since 2006, years of practice on the DNN Platform made us specialized and masters who bring the best possible results for your DNN Portals.