[DUG-TO] wordpress

[James Walker]

I mostly agree with Jane's sentiment. Wordpress works best as a single  
user system - i.e. a blog or "simple" website. That said, Wordpress is  
certainly growing with each release to approach a more general CMS.

Drupal is still much more flexible & powerful - but that typically  
comes with the implementation cost (time) that we're all familiar with  
(or getting to know! ;-)

It's long been my dream that there were more collaboration /  
partnership between the two communities, but that doesn't look to be  
on the immediate horizon. But for now, Wordpress for small and simple  
- Drupal for bigger more complex is a decent breakdown.

This does make me think, though, that it might be fun to have an  
event/ presentation/something that compared the two. I've gotten to  
know Brendan Sera-Shriar (who runs WordCampToronto) fairly well...  
perhaps we could do a compare and contract, "smackdown" if folks would  
be interested.

Brendan - interested?

On 9-Jun-09, at 3:53 PM, Jane Zhang wrote:

> I think wordpress is great for small or simple websites that does  
> not require the staff to have technical knowledge to update the  
> site. Drupal is more of a platform to develop custom applications  
> for companies or organizations. My opinion is that wordpress is  
> easier to install and update, but it does not offer the same  
> flexibility to customize that you can get from Drupal. Drupal has a  
> wider variety of contributed modules to choose from and a stronger  
> support network of developers.
>
> So, for basic websites, wordpress is going to be a better solution,  
> but Drupal will offer more scalability.
>
> just my two cents.
>
> jane
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Carole St. Laurent <carole at fluiditsolutions.com 
> > wrote:
> Has anyone tried wordpress? How does it compare with drupal,  
> especially wrt the number & ease of installing updates? I'm thinking  
> of trying it for basic sites, maybe even with paypal donations.
>
> Thanks,
> Carole
>
>
> Carole St. Laurent
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