WordPress vs Drupal

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Thanks, that’s a useful article. I’ve used WordPress on a dozen websites but will probably try Drupal for the next one.

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Currently looking at Drupal to build a directory focussed community site, have you guys built anything along those lines?

Very informative article.

I’d never even heard of Drupal before reading this article (sounds like then name of an over the counter cold formulation) . I have used mostly WordPress but I have been using Microsoft Live Writer to manage which rocks! The default WordPress interface is a disaster IMO.

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Did you notice any performance difference between the systems?

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I’ve now set up three sites in Drupal and two in WordPress. My main site is in Drupal and my most recent project, a church website just couldn’t do half the things it does if it were a WordPress page.

Thanks for writing this up, I think a lot of people have a WordPress-centric view of the web, and Drupal is a good solution for businesses and bigger sites.

Great post. I only have my hand on WP while my friend says something different. I think this is time to have experirence with DP.

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Good article. There is at least one full-featured WordPress-based web site that always catches my eye:
http://www.about.com.

Almost hard to believe that it’s powered by WordPress – probably with a little code hacking, but still impressive.

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Thanks for the article. I was wondering whether you’ve given a chance to Textpattern – which basically can do whatever Drupal is capable, only it is smaller in size and way faster. Also, its UI is friendlier, has a robust tag-templating system, etc. Grown to be my favorite

Good article Todd, basically i have the same experience as you, in short – one user or a very simple site(wordpress), in other cases Drupal is really superior. The number of modules available on the net will allow you to have a great start, way in front of WordPress. For simple sites and blogs, drupal is just an overkill.

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great article, Todd! I am a current wordpress user and it has some really nice features. But you are right when you are trying to develop community website. Dragon Z, said that if you have used textpattern, I looked into it a while ago before trying out Drupal and I think Drupal is a better way to go for the purposes you were explaining it for Todd. Cheers

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Drupal is best for complicated websites. You can do almost any type of community plumbing. I use it for a free press release distribution website. There are tonnes of modules which can build any kind of website. WordPress is good for simple one person use. It is also a great blogging platform. But drupal can do manythings including blogging.

Very good writeup and thanks for sharing your experience.

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Very interesting.

> If you have multiple dynamic content
> types (press releases, news articles,
> blog posts, etc.). Drupal is great at
> allowing you to create this stuff on
> the fly, with WordPress you are hacking
> things together.

Would you mind elaborating on this one, especially on the WordPress side?
Thanks

Agree with Sebastien. Also, while I can see your point in the article, I don’t think you (and more so some of the commentors) are giving WP its due credit. Imo it does MANY things better than Drupal and it is much more intuitive to use. I think in the end, WP knows what it is, knows what it should do, and does it very well. Drupal basically doesn’t know what it is, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s the building blocks you need to create an online community. If you’re only wanting to build a blog, however, don’t reinvent the wheel. Out-of-the box WP does it better than any amount of Drupal tweaking could hope to. There are reasons to use Drupal over WP, but I feel like these are less frequent than you lead on. I’d only use Drupal after planning it out and admitting that it would be less work to “build” what I want in Drupal than to customize WP to work for me.

Jonathan – I think we more or less agree. You are right, for a simple blog you would be insane to use Drupal instead of WordPress. We’ve actually used Drupal together with Drupal for clients that wanted to use Drupal for the Content Management but preferred to use WordPress as the blogging engine.

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I’ve always wanted to read a good article that lays it out when you use WordPress and when to use Drupal. I’ve been hacking things together with WordPress for too long and need to branch out with some sites that really need more of a Drupal system.

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Drupal is better in any case!!! WordPress is focused only on blogging, however, Drupal leaves open many more options and flexibility to manage digital content (if you have ever taken a course in Finance you will know the term “Real Options” which hits the spot quite well). Since more and more technologies are springing up all around the web, we need to stay as flexible as possible with our content structuring. Blogs should be no short-term recreational experiment but an attempt to manage and structure digital data over the longer term and to become more productive by leveraging the internet technology. Blogging is just one technology – and WordPress leverages that technology really really well. However, you will not be able to easily integrate other technologies with WordPress- you cannot just include a Wiki or a forum which is based on the same taxonomy structures in order to manage digital data holistically. You cannot create custom content types on the fly; you cannot go beyond the regular structuring approaches and define multiple layers of taxonomies. That’s where Drupal comes in – it’s a system that is much more flexible than WordPress. For any user, user-group or organization that is seriously getting into managing his/her/their digital content online, either via blogging or other technologies, Drupal is a better choice because of greater long-term perspective in managing digital content. OK, WordPress is easier and faster to implement. However, Drupal is really easy as well. For the average user who can install WordPress, installing Drupal will be a piece of cake. The admin interface is not so ajax-sexy, but there are various modules that have been developed by the Drupal user community that will let you work very effectively and efficiently in the admin backend. Admittedly, a Drupal downside is the lack of cool templates, but the community is doing a great job at changing this. The available templating-engines on the other side are a great Drupal advantage, for they allow you to define unlimited regions which you can then use to place any form of content. I will not claim that non of this would potentially be possible also in WordPress (if you put enough coding power behind it) however, WordPress has never been designed to manage digital content in a comprehensive way but just to serve as a blogging tool. The Ferrari-metaphor was a quite good illustration I think, although it should not lead you to believe Drupal is a faster system – but certainly a lot more powerful one!

Martin – good post. I agree with you more or less. I just think there are cases where you are building a focus site where WordPress can do the job with no problems. It is more than adequate for our corporate site, http://www.bivings.com, as an example.

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Worpress is maybe simplier solution for single-user blog, but Drupal could handle that task as well.
On the other hand, if you need blogging platform for multi-user enviroment, Drupal could be better solution.

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I think that WP is superior to Drupal when you consider all of the 3rd party support like templates and plugins.

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Hi Todd,

Thanks for sharing this. As usual I arrived on your sit elooking for something else and got drawn in.

Apart from my own blog, I’ve used WordPress as a help site for my customers, and put a link into my software that takes them there when they need help. It also allows them to leave testimonials for my software.

That’s another use of WordPress that I don’t think it was intended for (I could be wrong).

I also built my wife’s site around WordPress but had the forethought to put it in a sub-directory. 12 months on and the blog is now getting a bit on the large side as (apart from a 3 week break to do the accounts) she posts almost every day, and has other people writing there too now.

(It’s amazing the search terms that people find her site with!)

Anyway, I think it could well be time to set up the main domain with a CMS. I’ll take another look at Drupal.

Thanks again for sharing.

All the best,

Frank Haywood.

Thanks for the summary, Todd! I’ve been an avid user of WordPress, but I’ve also heard great things about Drupal!

I haven’t gotten anything done. More or less not much exciting happening. I’ve just been hanging out waiting for something to happen. I haven’t been up to anything.

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Thank you very much for this very interesting article! We had some performance problems before reading this article. Now all things speed up and the systemis working fine! – Yeah!

Great, thanks!

Great Thanks

i also think wordpress best .

Drupal is good too. thanks

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Any reflections on Drupal vs. WordPress vs. others, now that it’s Jan 2011? (Original article: Sept 2007.)

so in your opinion if you need different content templates is drupal the winner?

so in your opinion if you need different content templates is drupal the winner?

word-press is the best cms I can say because of it’s vast plug ins available for free, and also blogs can be created using this cms, I have also created some of the blogs in word press, but most of the people create websites using word press.

word-press is the best cms I can say because of it’s vast plug ins available for free, and also blogs can be created using this cms, I have also created some of the blogs in word press, but most of the people create websites using word press.

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