A quick slideshow noting the comparisons of Mura vs WordPress. You can also read the entire article here: http://www.themodmedia.com/articles/mura-vs-wordpress

1. Mura Vs Wordpress
Ronnie Duke • @modmedia

2. Features
Out of the box Out of the box
•Inline editing •Theme Customizer
•Custom image sizes and cropping •Blog functionality
•Auto compress and minify CSS/LESS/JS * Other functionality available via over
20,000 plugins
•Form Builder
•Mobile Detection
•Drag and drop in browser
•Calendar
•Image Gallery
•Much more

3. Plugins
• Fewer plugins, higher quality • Over 20,000 plugins
• Rich plugin architecture • Plugin quality ranges
•Able to extend the platform without the • High chance of plugins breaking upon
use of plugins core upgrades
• Mostly backwards compatible*

4. Themes
• Smaller theme library • Surplus of themes
• Designed for enterprise • Theme customizer for non-technical
users

5. UI
• Brand new, user friendly UI • Fairly user friendly UI
• Built on Twitter Bootstrap • Several areas/modules
• Extendable • Most objects carry “blog” ancestry
(Page Author, comments, etc)
• Visual hierarchy

6. Platform & Hosting
• CFML • Php
• Open source server processing (Railo) • Open Source
• Several hosting options (and growing) • Wide hosting options available
• Human readable semantic markup • Semantic Markup
• Easily scalable

7. Security
• PCI Compliant • W3C standards code
• W3C standards code • Reports of not passing PCI compliance

8. Enterprise vs Small Business
• Built for enterprise, works for small • Built for small business, can work for
business enterprise

9. Community
• Smaller, niche community • Large community
• Close communication with developers • More independent developers
of Mura CMS

10. Support
• Third party developers • Third party developers
• Online forums • Online forums
• Commercial support via Blue River • Commercial support starting at $20k per
starting at $4k per year year

11. Bottom Line
Designed for enterprise clients who Designed for more self-starters, or clients
typically work with teams to accomplish with lower budgets who want to get up
larger web strategies. and running quickly on a theme.