Choosing Between Drupal and WordPress
April 16, 2008
That choice was the theme of a talk recently given at a conference in San Francisco. You can see a video of the talk at the blog of either of the presenters. Andy uses Blogger, Selena uses WordPress. I found the video via Kieran, who uses Drupal.
Here’s my summary of the 18-minute video.
- Preamble. We’re not trying to pick a winner, but to highlight the differences between D and W.
- Getting site started: W+.
- Managing site as it grows more complex: D+.
- What does the software want to do with data? D: whatever you like. W: publish it.
- Who’s the focus of the community? D: developers. W: users.
- Wrapup.
April 17, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hey there Andrew, thanks for taking the time to watch our video, I know it wasn’t short!
Your outline is spot-on, we may even steal it
Yes, our blogs are in WP + blogger, but we have a lot of Drupal in our lives, some included in the presentation’s screengrabs.
I use Drupal for community management, and application stuff. What’s your favorite use of Drupal? WordPress? We’d love to hear about other people’s preferences and habits.
April 17, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Andy, glad you liked the outline. Since I use CC-by for this blog, I actually encourage “stealing with attribution.”
I haven’t used Drupal. That’s mainly because of the learning curve you describe.
April 29, 2010 at 9:56 am
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October 23, 2010 at 7:23 am
I am trying to start a blogging website, and I need help to choose one. I need to have individual sites like site1.abc.com , site2.abc.com , etc, and site1 is of user1 and site2 is of user2. How to implement this?
In Drupal, the working is like- one blog with many users , but in WordPress ms or mu, the concept is individual blog for individual user.
This is what i understood researching the internet. Everyone says it is better to use Drupal, but will I get the functionality I mentioned above,?
Also, many people say that, it takes too much time to load a Drupal based site. Is it so. How to makke it load fastet?