Warriors your suggestion needed For Best CMS CMS

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Soon I am starting my content site(All major categories).
I have plan to post daily 5 articles on different niche.
Which CMS i should use?
Wordpress ,joomla or drupal?

More on if i choose wordpress should i use multiple blogs for each major category or different categories (for major topics)& sub categories on a single install?

if i use joomla,have heard it lacks in SEO score as joomla sites doesnt rank well as compared to wordpress is it true?
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  • Which system are you familiar with?

    Personally I have found WordPress easiest learning curve.

    Joomla, slowed down my server and Drupal is overly complicated for simple blog type sites.

    Coupled with WordPress SEO functions and the amount of themes available I know I'd choose WordPress just for the speed in which it can be set up.

    Hopefully you will get some more input, but I give WordPress my vote.
  • BS. Both rank fine. Joomla is best used for small to large scale websites. The amount of control inside Joomla is dizzying. Wordpress is best used for blogs and scale sites. It does not "grow" very well.

    Both have massive communities and plugins/components. Both are great choices.
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    • Wrong. Both TechCrunch (Alexa rating 366) and Social Media News and Web Tips ? Mashable ? The Social Media Guide (Alexa rating 323) run on Wordpress. I doubt that there are many people here who will need it to grow more than this.

      WordPress is more for blogs or blog-like sites.

      Joomla vs. Drupal:

      - Joomla is easier to learn and is generally used for smaller to medium sites.
      - Drupal will require some learning and is harder to configure but potentially more powerful and scalable (the question is - will you ever need that much power?) and is generally used for medium to large sites.
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  • I've no experience with Joomla, but I run both Drupal and Wordpress sites... I'm looking at moving one of my two Drupal sites over to Wordpress... reasons: don't need the raw power of Drupal, and Wordpress updates far easier. (It will also make it easier to add new material, IMO)

    My vote is for Wordpress - unless you're doing a community site, or some similar complicated website, Wordpress has all the power you can possibly need, and can approach Drupal (and, I suspect, Joomla) in power given a wise use of modules.

    I think that very few websites absolutely need more power than what is already present in Wordpress - and given the speed of install, and the easy updating, there's really only one choice for me...
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  • So 4 votes in the favour of wp.
    actually i am using wp on my 15+ blogs since past 3 years & i have sound knowledge of its customization.
    I have even used joomla with joomlart templates before but i think i can do better with wp.
    But considering i am developing content site with planning of more then 2k+ articles to be posted within a year in different categories do you thin i can easily mange all this with wordpress?

    My 2nd query is regarding....
  • DotNetNuke

    It's like Joomla only on steroids.
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    • Wait until you see Drupal. Joomla is not nearly as powerful for managing user permissions and content types as Drupal.

      I didn't say easy, I said easier and that was comparing Joomla and Drupal, not Joomla and Wordpress.

      DotNetNuke is nothing like Joomla, the whole concept of managing content is different. I use both DNN and Joomla for my projects, depending on requirements / needs. Coding modules for DNN comes more natural to me, as I am a Microsoft developer but it has its CONs - not nearly as SEO friendly as Joomla and you will have to cough up some serious money for hosting, since it needs to be hosted on Microsoft IIS with MSSQL, which requires a costly license. Joomla runs on cheap open source LAMP servers.
  • It depends on your needs if you want simple and easy to manage cms you should go for Wordpress, most IMers are using WP. If you need more complex and advance features you can choose joomla, I use WP and joomla.
  • oks so if i plan to go with wordpress should i use multiple blogs for each major category or different categories (for major topics)& sub categories on a single install?
  • Wordpress. That being said drupal is good, but way to complex imho.

    As for your sites...i wouldnt make a site covering teh latest gaming news and acne cures at the same time...but then it depends.
  • I use Drupal and Wordpress on different sites for my clients. I'd say that overall I personally prefer Drupal, but I know that when I started off I found it very hard. Now I understand it ok, the power is amazing. I'm putting together a site to sell 1000's of products and it's working very well with that.

    But - wordpress is best for simple sites with simple content. It's easy to get your head round and building. That said - you can make Drupal simple by hiding some of the complex issues away.

    It sounds to me as if you'd be better off with wordpress, but without knowing a bit more about the advanced stuff you need it's hard to tell.

    James
  • ok friends
    I have decided to go with multiple installs of wordpress for each major categories(Like health, Business, fashion, travel, MMO, wedding, sports etc..)
    I have installed multiple blogs on sub urls (www.domain.com/health etc).
    I want to integrate all posts from my blog installs on 1 home page like on domain.com
    how can i do that?
    any one can guide me for this integration?
  • What are your needs? Wordpress is the mose user friendly but the most limited, Joomla has a ton of features etc but the learning curve is steeper, and Drupal is probably the most flexible overall but has the steepest learning curve.

    If you want something skinable and small, you could try "CMS made simple".
  • well i know that,so i have decided to start with multiple blogs for each category on same domain.
    I wanna integrate all blogposts on homepage..
    something like this.
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    • How much did you look into DNN? The Parent/child Portal feature could possibly be useful? I am running several sites on a single dnn install. However as mentioned above I do pay $10 monthly to an outside host. Just a thought though you can point multiple domains to a single install and break them up into parent portals. Each major category would come off as an individual site dedicated to that information. You could keep the skins and themes the same across all sites to allow your user to grasp the family relationship of the individual sites. You can also setup cross-portal user rights for one user to have full or limited access to the entire family of sites under one registration.
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