Contentful vs WordPress
Contentful and WordPress are both CMS software. Contentful is a commercial product from Contentful. WordPress is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 22k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Contentful when
- A company with developers needs one content source feeding several websites and apps.
- Pick WordPress when
- You need a website that non-technical staff can edit and want the widest choice of hosts, themes, plugins and freelancers.
Side by side
A headless CMS where content is modelled as structured types and delivered by API to websites, apps and other channels.
The PHP and MySQL content management system for websites and blogs, with the Gutenberg block editor and a very large ecosystem of themes and plugins; this repository is a read-only Git mirror of its Subversion repository.
Pricing jumps steeply from the free tier to paid plans, and editors find it less friendly than page builders.
Most security problems come from third-party plugins and themes, so keep them few and updated; contributions go to wordpress-develop, not this mirror.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and React
Closed source, sold by Contentful
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
181 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
22k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 15 years ago, no tagged release yet.
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.