DISQUS

Tony Buckingham · 7 months ago

Do I remember correctly that you guys used to use Drupal, or did I imagine that? If so, any reason why the switch to Wordpress? I've been using Drupal a lot lately at work, and we went through a review of the three major CMS's: drupal, wordpress, joomla . . . finding drupal to be the most customizable.

There was a cool panel on the debate at SXSW recently. Check it out:

http://cmsshowdown.com

JP · 7 months ago

Yeah, I've checked that out. I think it misses a lot of the beauty of WordPress which lies in the large number of plugins to extend the functionality and/or allow you to extend the functionality without modifying the core files, thereby retaining the upgrade path of the core system. I realize that Drupal also has a plugin architecture and that many things can be done using it especially w/ the CCK; however, I feel that you can more quickly build more functional and usable plugins for Wordpress.

Have a look at Flutter - extremely powerful for managing many types of content.

In addition, I think WordPress (v 2.7+) has a much, much better admin interface out of the box than any other system. It is very intuitive and usability is great. This same usability is carried through w/ many of the plugins. In addition, things like the all-in-one SEO plugin, google site-map plugin, etc give you extreme search engine optimization with a lot less effort.

I think it's very much a case of the right tool for the job - in this case we mostly target WordPress at small to medium sized organizations that need a sophisticated content management system. However, I do think that WordPress is making large strides toward being able to handle a content system of any size.

Not to mention, this comment system Disqus, which is a great add on and easily available as a WP plugin.