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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
Drupal Vs Wordpress for blogs
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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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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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They aren't in the same
They aren't in the same category.
WordPress: simple, less features, just blogging ...
Drupal: more complex, lot of features (blogging too, but also forums, galleries ...), powerful templating system - themes (live demo at themegarden.org)
If you need more than a simple blogging platform, drupal is better choice.
Software Library
Themes are a challenge
Drupal is still struggling with the image uploading question, and also lack of a wide selection of themes. For the casual user, being able to search the web and see thousands of gorgeous themes ready to go, Wordpress ends up as the winner. Of course we're trying to help change that too by showing that Drupal themes can be beautiful :)
Nice comparison but I'm
Nice comparison but I'm using blogger right now. Is there any Blogger vs. Drupal comparison?
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"little complex at first"
I think "little complex at first" is an understatement. Drupal is extremely complex and it's not at all ready to use for blogs out of the box. Installing FCKEditor is not easy and without that you can't add images to your posts.
I switched to wordpress. My experience:
http://www.codza.com/why-i-went-from-drupal-to-wordpress