Comments on: Drupal vs. WordPress

By: xx

xx — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:11:51 +0000

Well, this explains why wordpress sites are hacked so often

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:54:30 +0000

I think you made some good points here and would definitely agree that Wordpress is very simple and easy to use but the one downside to your argument is that small to medium sites will always fit into this category. I’m in the boat that says even if you only plan to have a small website, there might be a need to really expand in the future and you don’t want to have to completely revamp your website. And while Drupal is slightly more involved and somewhat more difficult to get up and running, you will learn a lot more about the build of a website which is never a bad thing. Just my 10 cents, great blog post!

By: Jafar

Jafar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:51:48 +0000

I really enjoy using Drupal because of it’s flexibility. I applaud Wordpress because it has a clean interface and so do many of it’s templates. Wordpress and Joomla are good in the beginning, but what happens when you want more control? You have to rely on developers and that’s where Drupal’s plugins specifically, CCK, Views, Panels, and Image Cache, help solve design and layout needs.

Drupal documentation could be better and the jump from Drupal 5 to 6 and now 7 will definitely lessen the attraction to Drupal. However, Drupal is not for every website maker, it’s for people that want something customized and don’t want to pay for the development side of things.

By: Bram Moreinis

Bram Moreinis — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:54:15 +0000

The difference between “developer focus” and end user focus” is correct – developers (the people who code PHP programs) love Drupal.

But you imply that happy developers have nothing to do with the quality of the code. That’s wrong.

Developers like things that WORK, that are built properly, that integrate well, that are extensible. They don’t want unnecessary complexity, and they don’t build things to charge more money.

Watch the old movie “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House”. That’s what happens when you have the client deciding what to do without consulting a developer.

If you want a modular home, buy one! Be happy with the styrofoam fireplace, and enjoy the faux shutters and other non-functional options you can pick out of a catalog.

But if you want a green home, you’ll want to build function into the basic plans, not around them. Yes, it will cost more.

If you don’t need the functionality of a Drupal site, it would be foolish not to use Wordpress. I agree there.

-Bram

By: Rick Adlam

Rick Adlam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:44:32 +0000

I enjoyed your article, but I feel that whilst WordPress is much easier to get along with and use, especially as a blogging site like this one, that building a more heavy duty website with more fuctionality, then Drupal wins hand down.
I have just started to use Drupal to build a social networking site. And getting my head around how Drupal works was a major frustration. Once past that, however It starts to become seductive.
Like you I love WordPress, but I feel that if I can get over the learning hump that is Drupal, then massive sites and great functionality are possible.
IMHO Drupal does need better documentation, and better accessibility for non technical people like me. I understand that Drupal 7 [due for release around spring next year hopes to address some of these issues.
Comparing the number of modules available is a little unfair. Some of Drupal’s modules contain five or more modules within them, and that means that they are capable of greater flexibility and customisation. Some of Drupal’s modules set it apart from WorPress,i.e., there is no comparable modules available in WordPress.
That said, WordPress will always be more popular than Drupal in my view, because quick and easy, beats better and more complex for the average Jill and Joe, and that includes most of us.

By: Martin, 1 Website Designer

Martin, 1 Website Designer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:19:24 +0000

I’ve found that WordPress is slightly quicker to get going with the basics and does have an in-built editor which helps, however like Peter, I found that whenever I wanted to do anything new, it got seriously complicated.

Learning Drupal took a bit of time, however it’s now possible for me to do a huge range of things easily and when I set up a new site, I just copy all the modules across and it’s quick to configure them.

Also I don’t know what you mean with regard to the Editing interface, in Drupal every page once you’re logged in has an ‘Edit’ button, which you click to edit that page – it doesn’t get much easier than that. Alternatively, go to /admin/content/node and you can filter content by a range of criteria to find the content you want to edit. Again, this is pretty intuitive.

My vote’s for Drupal any day!

By: peter

peter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:48:17 +0000

I have been working with Drupal for about a year when I decided to check out Wordpress. I found that Worpress has a few definite pluses:
* ease of installation
* new themes can be added from user interface
* built in editor
* built in image and multimedia support

After that, it was downhill. Many of the comparions between Drupal and Wordpress say that a Drupal site requires much more custom coding than Wordpress. I found that was not true. I had to start recoding the Wordpress theme to duplicate very basic functions that Drupal peforms out of the box.

For example the core Drupal installation lets you create custom menus which can contain any items you want (pages, external links, taxonomy terms) arrange in any way you want using a simple drag and drop interface. The Wordpress default top level menu was a list of pages in alphabetical order. The only way I found to customize the display was to edit the php code in the theme file.

By: roselynn

roselynn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:44:41 +0000

i have been on wordpress for years, i think its time to try drupal….