Joomla. Michael Shadle wrote: > I suggest Wordpress only for blogs or "brochureware" or basic page based > sites. It has security flaws often and I've had many sites hacked and > servers compromised because of it. > > Out of the box it is very easy to use and polished and has a lot of themes > available and is pretty easy to theme. > > I recommend Drupal for anything else. Out of the box it doesn't do > anything "very well" it provides the building blocks to do a lot of things > well with modules. It rarely has security issues compared to Wordpress. > > It is much more extensible than Wordpress. Anything using Wordpress for > forums, shopping carts or anything else is a gross misuse of the original > intention for Wordpress. Drupal however was designed to be more content > agnostic and can be extended way more elegantly than Wordpress can ever > be. Drupal is definitely for a more functional site. > > But if you just need something basic and simple Wordpress can meet your > needs. Just keep it up to date :) > > > On Aug 19, 2012, at 12:52 PM, lamp@xxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Hi to everyone, >> I was trying to figure this out for the last week or two. I have read >> tons >> of articles that compare Drupal and WordPress, but I still wasn't swayed >> to either side. >> I know that they are both good, both do the job well, and both have >> advantages and disadvantages. For example, Drupal has a steeper learning >> curve, but you get more control over the website. >> Most of Drupal vs WordPress articles are "emotionally" driven and it >> reminds me of the PC vs Apple flame war. I was trying to exclude these >> as >> much as I could but it's hard. >> >> Is there any website/article/benchmark/test/experiment/whatever I can >> trust to be unbiased? I need a website that measures the CMS' through >> facts, not heated, emotional arguments. In which cases is it better to >> use >> Drupal over WordPress (and vice-versa)? I know the first two words are >> going to be "it depends", but let's talk about it in general (for small >> basic websites, more complex websites, easy customization, etc). >> >> I found this on one page: "... Drupal was built as a fine-grained >> multi-role system where you can assign different permissions to >> different >> roles to do different things (e.g. content editor, content reviewer, >> member, etc.) and assign users to these roles..." Does that mean that >> WordPress can't do that? Maybe it can, and the quotation is true, but it >> is kind of misleading to say that one of the programs does something, >> and >> then not mention the other product at all. >> >> Special points for me are (not a must, though) >> - multiple websites with single core (both CMSs have the capability but >> I >> got impression Drupal does it better?) because of maintenance >> - compatibility with CiviCRM >> >> Once I decide what to use, I have to stick with it for a while. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> LAMP >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
