Wordpress vs. Drupal?
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- boobs
Which has more capabilities? Which is easier to use?
- orrinward0
Wordpress is easier to use and has a lot more stuff for it.
I've been told you can do things in Drupal that simply aren't possible in Wordpress though, but that it requires your own coding e.t.c
I think if you have to ask the question, Wordpress is a better bet for you. The only people I know that use Drupal are hardcore coders.
- eating_tv0
Wordpress 3 will have multi-site support: http://wordpress.org/developmentā¦
- RC1 has been released aswell, download link in the post.eating_tv
- turnerworks0
I've used Drupal once and never want to again. I'm sure it has its purpose but it was overkill for the site I worked on and not very intuitive to use at all.
- mikotondria30
Yeh, I couldn't stand Drupal, nor that Silver Stripe thing - both left me feeling like I was posting content through a very narrow slot and the black box of the machine would spit it out as it wished.
Although I like the numerous addons of Wordpress, I like to just use the simplest useful cms which is frog (madebyfrog.com). I can always either write a plugin for the admin for client functionality or use inline coding for the front end, even hack it to do 10, 20 sites at once, it's just the barebones enough of an engine and and admin that I never feel restricted by any of it. Just my tuppence ha'penny.- Hmmm. This could be useful for the boobs.boobs
- Its a barebones thing, I can' give you some pointers if you wanna mail me n that.mikotondria3
- nocomply0
With all of the increased functionality that has been built into each subsequent release of wordpress, I personally don't think it's much of a question anymore.
I have used Drupal a couple of times before and hated it, but part of that was probably because I was already comfortable with wordpress to begin with.
The documentation on WP is a lot better IMO, which is important when you need to use it to do new things.
- ukit0
Well, wait, isn't Drupal more of CMS framework? I was never really interested in it but it seems like it could have more functionality than WP, and certainly more flexibility, if you took the time to code it.
On the other hand, WP is by far your better option for someone who doesn't want to get into all that.
- ukit0
I would take a look at WP and Expression Engine at the more basic level. WP is great for blog and small sites, but EE gives you more flexibility to build a full-fledged site.
- dMullins0
Drupal is far more powerful than Wordpress. But as orrinward said, it's going to require more than just click and drag from the user...
- wmeredith0
If you want something user friendly that can do almost anything, go with Wordpress. If you want something that can do everything and will be maintained by a professional web developer, go Drupal.
- ukit0
At that point I would say screw Drupal and just go for Django.
- ESKEMA0
I'd say look into Concrete5.
I've used Drupal, it's not that hard and my no web Guru, it has a lot more power and flexibility than Wordpress but the learning curve is not easy.
Wordpress, I never got around it because I found it difficult to not make it look like a blog.I'm in love with Concrete5, so simple, yet very powerful.
- fuck I write terribly...ESKEMA
- no you doesn'tmikotondria3
- tgqt0
ok....wordpress is great, but the taxonomy doesn't scale that well. Drupal scales like a mother, but has an admin that is a bit complicated and YES it behaves much more like a framework.
The thing is that they are both great tools if they are applied to the right project.
- boobs0
OK. Let's say I'm working in Wordpress, making alterations to the CSS of a theme.
Does anybody have a good idea for a workflow for this? Any tips on how to speed up this tedious process?
- acescence0
the way i work with wp, or really any cms, is to start with a theme with all of the html removed, or some skeleton if you have a way you always start layouts, like a css reset, etc. you obviously only need to do this once.
then i code up the layout for a particular site as static pages and get that working. no cms involved here.
then i copy/paste the static layout bits into the appropriate parts of my html-less theme.
also, i suggest you install the cms locally on your machine, with wamp or mamp
- dan53820
WP will basically run on just about any hosting service (I've tried)
Drupal requires some hardware requirements to use it to its full potential, but if you have the hardware already set up then I prefer Drupal.