Drupal Vs Wordpress for blogs

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    Drupal

    WordPress

    Reputation

    Excellent

    Excellent

    Single/Group blog/site

    Single or Group Blog but with better User Management

    Single person or Group users

    Ease of use

    Little complex at first

    Very Easy to use

    Admin Interface

    Little complex at first

    Very Easy to use

    Extensibility

    Excellent

    Not so Good

    Blocks

    Unlimited blocks and very flexible and extendable

    Limited block placement without hacking

    Future growth

    Can be accounted for very easily due to its vast features

    Limited compared to Drupal.

    Customized Design

    If page design is important to you , you want to choose Drupal

    Can customize design but with limitations

    Creating content

    Easy. But image support is not as good, but can be done with installing TinyMCE or FCKEditor

    Very easy. Images can be easily added to the blog

    Managing comments and spam

    Excellent

    Good

    Contributed modules

    Huge, Many features available

    Huge, Many features available

    Mulitiple uses

    Yes. Drupal is CMS , Blogging is just one of the features of Drupal

    Mainly a blog Engine.

    Themes

    Many themes, but not as much as wordpress

    A very huge collection of FREE themes.

     

    When to use Drupal:

    v     When you want to start with blog and want to extend your website in future

    v     When you want Group or community building

    v     You want control and managebility

     

     

    When to use Wordpress:

    v     If you want ease of use and Navigation and easy to learn.

    v     You are only building a single blog with basic features.

    v     You do not plan to expand your blog into a websites


Comments

drupal vs wordpress

Sometimes I curse the day I discovered drupal. I learned wordpress first and then drupal. Using drupal for a personal blog is like weeding with a nuclear bomb. When you need to beyond that drupal is perfect but the learning curve is super steep.
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guajero | Tue, 2008-05-06 23:48

I'm not much into drupal's

I'm not much into drupal's technicals yet, but I can tell this is a fair comparison. I'm using modx,drupal and wordpress regularly and modx is way more technical and extensible than both drupal and wordpress. Wordpress is total crap in extensibility, but it's so easy for new users and you can't ignore it. Drupal so far stays in the middle for me - more flexible than WP and not that tech oriented as modx it can be called the golden middle in a way :)

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VideoNik | Mon, 2008-05-12 09:31