The Drupal Wordpress Dance - Which Blogging Platform?
Posted 6th October 2009 at 03:41 PM by shermancox
I have gone back and forth between Wordpress and Drupal in my mind and in reality for the last 2-3 years. When I first began my attempts at blogging, I jumped into Wordpress.
I immediately signed up for one of those cheap shared web host packages and jumped headfirst into wordpress. I started two relatively successful blogs as well as a bunch of unsuccessful ones.
At any rate, I was making changes and altering themes and plugins due to the relative ease of figuring out how the code was running. Then I got introduced to Drupal.
At the time it was before the plethera of wordpress magazine themes and I was enamored by the look of some themes. Most notably was Roople Themes. When Is aw these themes I made the jump. After getting on Drupal, I realized that the sheer capabilities were enormous. I could create a membership site in my drupal site. I could add financial capabilities and a sstore inside my drupal. I could add views and all kinds of other things.
In fact, I used drupal to build a data driven website for someone that wasn't feasible for wordpress. Drupal is so flexible...however, I found it difficult to deal with the code so I never touched it. In addition, I found it difficult to just think in drupal. But it was a very important step...I moved all of my blogs over to drupal and all was well for a year...
Then I saw those magazine themes come out. In addition, I became incresingly aware that I needed to do less and less work and thus need a simple platform. In addition, my membership site plans just never panned out. Instead of using drupal, I used Nanacast and my email autoreponder. As I attempted to do less and less, the power and flexibility of drupal became a curse. I still think it is a much better platform for developers, but if you are simply wanting to put out quality information as quickly as possible, I highly suggest wordpress.
So now everything is back on wordpress, except my most successful blog...that will go in a month or so. Then I will attempt to stop thinking like a developer and think more like a marketer. Stop struggling with the platform and attempt to spend more time on that which makes money...
Drupal is elegant, powerful, and cool...but I can get stuff done in wordpress much faster...So Now I choose Wordpress....
Drupal simply blew away wordpress in terms of functionality. I could do a lo
I immediately signed up for one of those cheap shared web host packages and jumped headfirst into wordpress. I started two relatively successful blogs as well as a bunch of unsuccessful ones.
At any rate, I was making changes and altering themes and plugins due to the relative ease of figuring out how the code was running. Then I got introduced to Drupal.
At the time it was before the plethera of wordpress magazine themes and I was enamored by the look of some themes. Most notably was Roople Themes. When Is aw these themes I made the jump. After getting on Drupal, I realized that the sheer capabilities were enormous. I could create a membership site in my drupal site. I could add financial capabilities and a sstore inside my drupal. I could add views and all kinds of other things.
In fact, I used drupal to build a data driven website for someone that wasn't feasible for wordpress. Drupal is so flexible...however, I found it difficult to deal with the code so I never touched it. In addition, I found it difficult to just think in drupal. But it was a very important step...I moved all of my blogs over to drupal and all was well for a year...
Then I saw those magazine themes come out. In addition, I became incresingly aware that I needed to do less and less work and thus need a simple platform. In addition, my membership site plans just never panned out. Instead of using drupal, I used Nanacast and my email autoreponder. As I attempted to do less and less, the power and flexibility of drupal became a curse. I still think it is a much better platform for developers, but if you are simply wanting to put out quality information as quickly as possible, I highly suggest wordpress.
So now everything is back on wordpress, except my most successful blog...that will go in a month or so. Then I will attempt to stop thinking like a developer and think more like a marketer. Stop struggling with the platform and attempt to spend more time on that which makes money...
Drupal is elegant, powerful, and cool...but I can get stuff done in wordpress much faster...So Now I choose Wordpress....
Drupal simply blew away wordpress in terms of functionality. I could do a lo
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