Thinking of getting from Kentico to WordPress? 

 

You are on the right way.  

 

Frequently, the choice of this or that CMS software package may bring you into a                             stalemate. There are dime a dozen of website builders that are currently floating                         around the Web and providing everything needed to make your website                     management simple and engaging. Needless to say that you should think twice                       before choosing your future software – making the wrong decision can have an                         negative impact on your web project for years and cost you a fortune and time to                               rectify. 

In order to narrow down the search among your most­fitted CMS solutions, this post                           aims to compare the main features of the two popular platforms – Kentico and                           WordPress – and help you to make the right choice between them. 

Kentico CMS is very powerful and feature­rich web content                 management system which allows to create corporate and               personal websites with great ease. It is ASP.NET based CMS                   and is widely used by corporate giants in 85 countries of the                       world to settle their web projects on. The platform bills itself as                       the easiest­to­use platform for non­technical users, while still               offers much scope for flexible and rapid site development.                 Shipped with dozens of modules which aim to deliver a                   

phenomenal amount of functionality for a low licence cost, the platform is capable                         enough to satisfy the most advanced developers. Kentico has its limits though, which                         are as follows: 

● lack of community – the platform has a small community and therefore forums                         are less reliable for those who need help. ● price – the platform costs money – $1000/site (and that has no source code, no                             webfarm support, no staging and only 10 products for eСommerce site meaning the                         $1500/site version is required). 

● poor development environment – localhost version has 30 day timeout,                   ecommerce version limited to 10 products etc. ● 3rd party components – this becomes a drawback for those users who are                         

unsatisfied with the components that Kentico has created. Pursuing a path of simplicity in everything from site                 administration to content management – WordPress has             become an award­winning piece of software in terms               ofease­of­use and multifunctionality at one time. It has been                 specifically designed with the end­users in mind – that made it                     a good option for non­techie and experts alike. Speaking about                   WordPress functionality, it is packed with so­called basic               built­in management options as well as free and premium                 

plugins that allow to extend a web project as huge and complex as needed. One more                               speak­for­itself advantage of the platform is its strong SEO capabilities even without                       special plugins installed. Thesecurity features of the software prevent websites                   powered by WordPress of getting hacked. In a nutshell, the platform is often treated as                             one­size­fits­all solution that has all the necessary tools and even more to drive                         success in one place. 

With all that in mind, Kentico is strongly recommended for more complex and robust                           websites, while WordPress is nearly a perfect fit when clients need a                       professionally­looking website get up and run in no time. 

In case you find Kentico not right­your­size CMS option – why not give a try to                               WordPress? With CMS2CMS automated migration service you’ll be able to transfer                     all the content across above­mentioned platforms accurately and flawlessly. Due to the                       automated process, a full scale migration is quite fast and takes less than half an hour to                                 perform it with no human involvement at all. A step­by­step guideline of migration from                           Kentico to WordPress is given below for you to see how simple it is: 

1. Download CMS2CMS Kentico to WordPress Migration Plugin and extract it to                       your PC. 

 

  

2. When ready, find the Plugin in the admin panel and Activate it by pressing the                               corresponding button. 

 

3. Register your CMS2CMS Account by providing your email and password. 

 

4. To Connect Kentico – just point out its URL address in the corresponding field. 

 

5. Select Migration Preferences by activating those you wish to be imported to                         WordPress. Note that tool allows to transfer pages, content images and internal links.                         Run Demo Migration.  

 

6. In case you are the results of Demo Migration have totally satisfied all your                             expectations – start Full Migration. After the click, your Kentico content will be                         imported to WordPress. 

 

Well Done! 

 

Now it’s time to check the results of migration  

and start enjoying your new web project powered by universal WordPress.