Comments on: Drupal vs. WordPress, why I’m having second thoughts

By: John Sostak

John Sostak — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:05:16 +0000

Hi,
I am not a developer or coder, but my partner is. We have tried Drupal, and for smaller websites, it is too much, of everything. We have started using wordpress as a cms for small sites, like http://cfdblaze.com/ which is the Chicago Fire Department website, and it is much faster to roll out. The wordpress cms is also easier for a client to administrate.

That being said, the client must be informed of what not to touch. We haven’t eliminated the editor, plug ins, or themes from the back end. If they want to, they can do a little damage.

It’s been our experience that the wordpress community is super helpful, so maybe you are just in the wrong forums? Check Matt Mullenweg and Tomi Schnieder, they actually answer email personally.

I would like wp to do a little more, and the community will get it there. Unless we are building something really big, we prefer wordpress.

Thanks, John

By: nomad

nomad — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:44:54 +0000

I think under the hood Drupal code is much easier to understand then Wordpress.

Wordpress attaches wp_ to everything, don’t know why they feel the need to, it only makes more of a mess and difficult to read the code.

The code itself is not as straight forward as Drupal code which is pretty easy once you get the feel for it. Wordpress hides a lot of things which makes it difficult to extend.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:38:28 +0000

weston deboer, why would the Wordpress community be hiding said information?

By: weston deboer

weston deboer — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:06:47 +0000

This is kind of a hidden secret that the wordpress community doesn’t really want you to know. But it is very easy to do what you are asking by using custom page templates. So you create your contact page template in your wordpress theme folder. Then you create your contacts page and select that page. Now within that you can do your custom php queries, custom loops.

Or you can even go a step further and in your index.php or category.php template files you can say, if in the contacts category, show it like this, if not show it like this.

I am sorry if this is an old topic, I was just looking around drupal vs wordpress

By: Hone Watson

Hone Watson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:07:11 +0000

I think you might be able to achieve this outcome by extending some of the wordpress classes, using the wordpress rewrite api, and using the template redirect hook.

I like Drupal, but I find it annoying that they have two simultaneous stable releases and a third development release. It makes it so much more difficult to maintain modules. I think Wordpress has better scalability due to the Drupal Database API.

Magento is so slow even now with performance enhancements. I’m looking at starting a project that uses the post_type for products, and orders with a simple paypal express checkout as a starting point.