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Wordpress vs. Drupal - Battle of the CMS
Social Media News Source: http://www.brianchappell.com
Published: Feb 02, 2008 - 03:33 am
Story Found By: TheMadHat 1574 Days ago
Category: Social Media
Brian does a great job breaking down the pros and cons of using Wordpress and Drupal for your blogging platform or CMS.
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from BrianChappell 1574 Days ago #
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Thanks for the sphinn bud. The short and sweet answer:Big site, doing more than just a blog = DrupalSolo blog/ non experienced coder = Wordpress

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from NickWilsdon 1574 Days ago #
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I’ve tried both but have far more experience with WordPress. There is a steep learning curve in Drupal and the forums weren’t particularly open to people who didn’t understand the terms.I was also a bit worried about the security aspects. Earl Grey set up a copy for Threadwatcher.com and had it hacked by a friend in less than 5mins. That makes me nervous ;) I know WordPress well and can tie it down very well. I’m sure Drupal Pro’s can do the same with that CMS but out of the box, it was wide open. I have a team of coders though so we can make WordPress work for large sites, check out http://www.e3auction.com as proof (handles over 20’000 domain names per day). Using the template structure of WP and some custom plugins can get you a long way but I accept this is beyond the average WP user. I read someone wisely saying that the value in WordPress wasn’t the platform itself but the plugins. I agree. Drupal does have a lot of contributions but nowhere near the level of the WordPress community.

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from evilgreenmonkey 1573 Days ago #
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I’m planning to code my own blog platform using CakePHP tomorrow, as I hate having to upgrade Wordpress every week, don’t use 99% of the features, and really can’t face learning to create plug-ins for the features I do want. Am I mad?

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from NickWilsdon 1573 Days ago #
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@evilgreenmonkey yes ... :)Or at least make it in RoR. That seriously rocks. We’ve just managed to get socialblogroll.com to run at 0.03 sec pageload running it in production mode through mod proxy and a Mongrel cluster./feel the geekiness

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from DianeV 1572 Days ago #
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> Wordpress on the other hand has a set theme for its backend which cannot be changed.I haven’t found that to be true at all.

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from bwelford 1572 Days ago #
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For most of us, there’s no need to go beyond the incredible functionality of WordPress with all those plugins.

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from BrianChappell 1571 Days ago #
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@DianeVyou might be able to change to backend but it is not going to align with the front end. 

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