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CiviCRM on Wordpress has the exact same functionality as CiviCRM on Drupal or Joomla, there's no difference.
The only thing lacking in WP is the drupal integration modules - views, webforms, organic groups, rules, etc. If you're not using any of those, then you won't miss them. If you are, then you probably will miss them.

Hey michaelhayes,

We are a WP + CiviCRM 'shop' and have been working with WordPress for some time and as of last year we incorporated CiviCRM. I have used CiviCRM within Drupal too and agree with Coleman's note. There are integrations built between the two that don't yet exist in WP, but CiviCRM is the same. With community support and through our work we know that integrations for WP will improve over time too.

Outside of that we have worked on several CiviCRM instances for small organizations that use it for donation management, event registration, mailings and membership. There are shortcodes built into CiviCRM + WP now, that allows to have the theme/design and content be managed by WP and the contact data flow to and from CiviCRM. So you are using both applications around the core strengths. Here's a Q&A type meetup I helped out with and the slides used at CiviCon that may be a good resource: https://tadpole.cc/blog/civicrm-wordpress-integration-dana-sf/ and here's a case study form last year from civicrm.org site for reference: http://civicrm.org/casestudy/node/1524. Also, important to note that as of 4.3, Civi + WP has the permission structure similar to that of Drupal, which provides more flexibility to use across an organization.

The ability to have your CRM connected within your website CMS is huge in itself. But even if you're looking at just CiviCRM, no matter the CMS used, CiviCRM gives you control of your data with no limitations in regards to licensing or access and the ability to customize data structure to meet your organization needs.  You can create contact types, build relationships between them, add custom data fields, build profile forms, create surveys and petitions and even more. If you can share more about the features you are seeking when looking at CiviCRM vs an alternative, that would help us share more specifics.

Hope this helps!

Dana

Having worked with both Drupal/CiviCRM and Wordpress/CiviCRM I would say that you must have a pretty powerful reason for wanting to move to WP. As others have already noted you will lose a lot of the neat integration benefits that Drupal provides, so I'd be interested to learn what's so attractive about Wordpress that you are willing to give that up - and in addition have all the pain of migrating all your content across. Is WP really that good?

http://capitolpagealumni.org uses Wordpress + CiviCRM and has for over a year.  They were one of the first adopters.  http://CWEF.org.hk also uses Wordpress + CiviCRM for donations as does http://321ride.org with events.