Comments on: Switched to WordPress and here’s why http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/switched-to-wordpress-and-heres-why/ Musings of a UNIX SysAdmin, jazz lover, and wine/beer snob Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:12:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Josh http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/switched-to-wordpress-and-heres-why/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Josh Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:08:32 +0000 http://test.lancealbertson.com/?p=47#comment-6 Right tool for the right job is the key. What I like to ask people (when determining which way to learn with open source CMSs) is "how many people are going to be contributing?" If you're running a site with less than ten folks, who you could describe as staff/editors/friends/co-authors and you're only putting out one basically one type of content... then by all means please use WordPress and don't think about Drupal. BUT, if you plan to have 100+ contributing users want to have various type of content, specific views of subsets with filtering, user profiles and do things like mobile uploading... WordPress just won't cut it. (However, there are some examples out there of WP cores for bigger sites.) Right tool for the right job is the key. What I like to ask people (when determining which way to learn with open source CMSs) is “how many people are going to be contributing?”

If you’re running a site with less than ten folks, who you could describe as staff/editors/friends/co-authors and you’re only putting out one basically one type of content… then by all means please use WordPress and don’t think about Drupal.

BUT, if you plan to have 100+ contributing users want to have various type of content, specific views of subsets with filtering, user profiles and do things like mobile uploading… WordPress just won’t cut it. (However, there are some examples out there of WP cores for bigger sites.)

]]> By: Paul Scott http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/switched-to-wordpress-and-heres-why/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Paul Scott Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:10:51 +0000 http://test.lancealbertson.com/?p=47#comment-5 Just to amend your paragraph on Drupal wishlist... # Implement module installation via Drupal - Like Chisimba # Implement module upgrades via Drupal - Like Chisimba Chisimba does all that as well as single click installs of common module configurations. I see now that a few projects are starting to emulate Chisimba in remote module updates and upgrades/installs. Good to know that Chisimba was the first! -- Paul Just to amend your paragraph on Drupal wishlist…

# Implement module installation via Drupal – Like Chisimba
# Implement module upgrades via Drupal – Like Chisimba

Chisimba does all that as well as single click installs of common module configurations.

I see now that a few projects are starting to emulate Chisimba in remote module updates and upgrades/installs. Good to know that Chisimba was the first!

– Paul

]]> By: lance http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/switched-to-wordpress-and-heres-why/comment-page-1/#comment-4 lance Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:20:18 +0000 http://test.lancealbertson.com/?p=47#comment-4 WordPress appears to be great for simple to medium sites, but like you say when you get into more varying content that's where Drupal shines. It would be interesting to see a community within Drupal devoted to using it as a blog with modern features. Maybe there is but it didn't show up in my searches that's for sure. A "one stop shop for blogging" would be better than just enabling the simple blog module. Thanks for the comment :) WordPress appears to be great for simple to medium sites, but like you say when you get into more varying content that’s where Drupal shines. It would be interesting to see a community within Drupal devoted to using it as a blog with modern features. Maybe there is but it didn’t show up in my searches that’s for sure. A “one stop shop for blogging” would be better than just enabling the simple blog module.

Thanks for the comment :)

]]> By: Aaron B. Hockley http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/switched-to-wordpress-and-heres-why/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Aaron B. Hockley Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:12:17 +0000 http://test.lancealbertson.com/?p=47#comment-3 As a WordPress fan (but not zealot... at least I don't think so) I'm always interested in hearing why folks use WordPress (or why they don't). One consistent theme I hear from folks who have used both Drupal and WordPress is that Drupal is great if you have a bunch of varying content (and some small part of it might be a blog) while WordPress shines when used for a blog-centric site with relatively simple forms of other content. Welcome to WordPress :) As a WordPress fan (but not zealot… at least I don’t think so) I’m always interested in hearing why folks use WordPress (or why they don’t). One consistent theme I hear from folks who have used both Drupal and WordPress is that Drupal is great if you have a bunch of varying content (and some small part of it might be a blog) while WordPress shines when used for a blog-centric site with relatively simple forms of other content.

Welcome to WordPress :)

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