Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Choosing between Wordpress, Drupal and other CMS

I'm not a Unix nerd. I run my sites on Microsoft Windows 2008 with MSSQL database installed. But when it comes to CMS and Open Source, sad to say, Microsoft isn't there YET.

After struggling with Drupal for 4 days, following examples in books, configuring etc, Drupal did not do what I wanted it to. I run the software on a dedicated server with Windows 2008 and almost all examples, books and forums are for Unix nerds. I really like Unix, but I never got around to learning it so at the same time I hate it. So I had to drop the Drupal site because it was giving to much headace before I even got the site up.

In 4 hours I configured Wordpress for my needs, A few pages, a wiki and a forum. Then another day to fix adds, SEO and add some content and I'm up and running. Most of the time was spent on looking for a suitable theme. There are a lot of themes for Wordpress, not so for drupal.

What happens now is that I'm forced to alter PHP in the themes to get the layout working as I want it to. So in the end, I don't know what is best in the long run.

Summary: To get a site up and running quickly, good looking, Wordpress is the winner. If you like to fiddle around with technical issues, Drupal is for you. I wish there was something in between, lika a wordpress plugin for Drupal.

Anyway, I just wanted to share that since I didn't find much about this issue on the net.


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