Extra features
Does one CMS have any niceties that the other systems lack?
Ghost has built-in subscription features. Posts can be published on your site while simultaneously being sent as a social media post or even an email newsletter. It’s also helpful that these end products can be previewed from within the post editor. You can also export or import your subscriber list.
Screenshots can’t convey the speed of a CMS, but subjectively, we noticed that Ghost seemed a bit snappier than the competition. This makes sense – it’s not as reliant on plugins and extensions because it comes pre-optimised for its intended role at the expense of overall flexibility.
WordPress has different roles that can be assigned to a user, but Drupal has more granularity and detail in this department. For example, you could create a custom role with certain privileges or restrict a given role in areas, such as being able to edit a certain level of HTML in posts. If you’re focused on details like these, then Drupal and Joomla! both tend to offer finer-grained options than WordPress.
The official Drupal website has a searchable database of ‘distributions’. These are downloadable pre-customised versions of Drupal that are intended for a specific role. We searched for actively maintained distributions with a stable release, and there were 125 listed.
When considering security issues, for once, WordPress’s popularity works against it because hacking attacks are far less likely on the less-popular CMS. So, that’s a bonus point for the other systems. However, there are a greater number of professionals who can help to create customisations for WordPress than the other systems, and prices are usually lower.