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CMS features - wordpress, typo3, drupal or something different?

by lifesofree
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Hello Warriors,

I'm planning a new website and I'm looking for your advice regarding the cms, since I need some features that wordpress might not be able to deliver or that it might deliver but it would become to complex to handle all the widgets and customizations.

So, what are the features I'm looking for:

- 2 columns
- top-Navigation where the current category / page is highlightened (ideally even the child category would be highlightened)
- dynamic sidebar-widgets to add different sub-navigations or featured articles to different pages
- easy integration of openx and a shop-system
- search-funtion that's a little better than the standard one that wordpress comes along with
- automatic pagination
- forum integration

Maybe I need a professional coder to get those things - yet it would be great to know which cms he would have to build on.

I'm very grateful for all your recommendations. Thanks in advance, lifesofree.
#cms #drupal #features #typo3 #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author lifesofree
    After some research it seems to me that typo3 and drupal should be able to do those things I wish.

    Wordpress on the other hand seems weak when it comes to dynamic sidebars (where the sidebar-content differs from page to page) and to pagination and different, automatic sub-navigations ...

    Well, I guess that drupal- or typo3-developer charge more money for template creation and stuff like that than the "ordinary" wordpress-developers, or am I wrong with this?
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  • Profile picture of the author rooze
    Wordpress can do all that you ask.
    For dynamic menus you can approach it in different ways. Some themes have built-in widget capability for displaying custom menus based on registration status, which is really useful. For example, not logged-in displays widget/menu A, logged-in displays B etc.
    You can use a simple plugin for 'Widget Logic' where you assign a widget to appear on a specific page, pages, or not on specific page or pages. Using Widget Logic plugins you could have a different menu for every page on your site if you wanted.
    You can also do great things with menus using the Buddypress plugin - even if you don't need their advanced community tools. Checkout the top Menu on this website Job Search resources find work and new employment tools for careers Every user has a different set of menu items based on their registration status.
    There are plenty options for enhanced search and Forums. The only weak thing with WP is they don't have great eCommerce options. I use Joomla for sites with more of an eCommerce requirement and use their Virtuemart component in a customized form.
    But nowadays you can pretty much get Wordpress to do anything.
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