🆚 Directus vs. WordPress
- 📈 WordPress is much more popular than Directus.
- 🌍 WordPress is more popular in all countries.
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About
Directus is an open-source headless CMS and data platform that lets developers build APIs from custom SQL data models while providing non-technical users with a friendly admin interface to manage structured content.
It automatically generates REST and 
GraphQL endpoints from the database schema, supports multiple SQL databases, and offers role-based access control, field-level permissions, versioning, workflows, asset management, real-time previews, and custom dashboards.
WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on 
PHP and MySQL.
It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.
Headquarters
Pricing
(1 user, 5K DB entries)$180/year
(5 users, 75K DB entries)$1,188/year
(10 users, 250K DB entries)$1,188/year
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 108th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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WordPress VIP🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.