Magento vs. WordPress

Brief summary

Magento is a more efficient and winning alternative to WordPress when it comes to e-commerce, but at the same time Magento is much more complex and requires technical expertise or professional help, which can be quite expensive.

Similarities of Magento 2 and WordPress

These 2 CMS have many aspects in common. Both of them are:

free
open-source
highly customizable through code or by plugins implementation
SEO and mobile-friendly
offer various free and paid design templates

But despite all these similarities, these platforms are completely different and serve different purposes.

Differences between Magento 2 and WordPress

The core idea of these platforms is completely different:

Magento 2 was designed as an e-commerce solution and is usually used to build an online store.
WordPress is rather a choice for bloggers.

Thanks to different plugins, you can definitely add a blog page to your Magento 2, for example, by using our Blog Pro extension, and vise versa, launch online sales on WordPress by enabling WooCommerce plugin. But these platforms (Magento 2 and WP) don’t compete directly. To make it clear, check the table with the main built-in features of each platform:

Magento 2

Marketing, promotions, and conversion Tools
Catalog and product management tools
Checkout, payment, and shipping
Order management
Customer accounts and service
Analytics and reports

WordPress

Publishing tools
User management
Media management tools
Built-in comments
Importers for Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad, Tumblr