Drupal vs Wordpress

maybe start answering your own question by using some initiative and doing some research...

http://drupal.org/node/67779

Wordpress is more of a single user tool, where as Drupal is for multiple users.
With drupal is much easier to create a social networking site.

Wordpress is also more of a blogging tool, whereas Drupal can be used to create any type of site.

Drupal is more of a CMF rather then a CMS

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WordPress also has a much smaller, more closed, and arguably less active development community. This means it's moving much more slowly and unlikely to have some of the features you need.

Recently, for instance, a group I've been consulting (http://www.ephblog.com) converted their "blog site" (which is really a small social networking site) from Movable Type to Wordpress.

Within a month they had hit the wall of what WP could do, and were frustrated, frustrated, frustrated. No easy way to turn the list of 10 recent posts into a page, no good search, no functionality for multiple authors, poor feeds integration... and that's just the start of it.

Pulling back, Wordpress is a narrow niche technology (created for personal blogs) trying to outgrow its britches. Drupal is a general framework for web application development, with far, far, far greater flexibility and options-- not to say Drupal is without its flaws.

In the end, if you choose WP and need to move into the future, you're likely to be hamstrung by its inability to adapt. Drupal, on the other hand, should be ahead of (or defining) the curve for at least 4-5 years.

Good luck in your decision.

You should be comparing Wordpress MU/ mu forums to Drupal. I would pick it over Drupal if I had to learn from scratch. If I already have used Drupal for a while then Drupal it is because the modules are centralized and may be decentralized as a group. Wordpress is too spread out to find what you need even with the codex.

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Both are great tools for the right job.

WordPress is great for blogging and simple content management. If you try to go beyond that, it's no longer the right tool for the job.

Drupal is a community script. It can handle users and access better than WordPress. And Drupal can do social networking.

Drupal is a content script. With 'content types' and views, just about anything is possible.

Drupal is not for the faint of heart. There is a learning curve and a lot of the functionality may be hard to grasp.

WordPress has really good documentation. Their Codex, back in my WP days, was pretty decent. Drupal's is, too, but a bit hard to navigate sometimes.

WordPress' forums suck. Seriously, bbPress is the last forum script they should be using.

Why should you start using Drupal? I don't know. I don't know what kind of site you need, or what your plans are for your site. Is it a community site? Or a simple corporate site? Is your site going to grow? Are you planning galleries and blogs and a forum for it?

But if you do start using Drupal, remember there's a lot to it and make sure you give it the time it needs. If you're unwilling to learn then you might as well begin with WordPress since you'll probably get frustrated early on.

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year.why not?

Reasons for switching to Drupal. (or things that suck in Wordpress)

• multi-language support
• central repository of modules with actual downloads
• centralized information exchange for newbies and non-coders if you want to find out anything in Wordpress it requires several days of surfing and you may not find what you are looking for. Drupal.org is not perfect but it "sucks less".
• issues and bugtracker for modules. You can put up a post at Wordpress.org but the plugin author may never see it or care. Joomla also suffers from this miss. At drupal.org you can pretty much see immediatly the status of a module. Is it maintained. Does it have bugs? You also get the support of others that are using the same module.
• serious extension developement. Wordpress plugins are spread all over hell and only a very,very very small percentage of those that do plugin development are actually serious about what they do. Wordpress has not developer community whatsoever, Wordpress.org does not even support developers.

  There is more but it suffices to say that the Wordpress community is too simplistic and loose to support anything more than the individual blogger. If you are going to be building websites for others then you are better of with Drupal or another CMS.

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In a nutshell this is what I think the difference is.

I like WordPress for sites where publishing content among a defined set of authors is the primary objective. I like Drupal for sites that require community input, persistent presence and/or aggregation from other sites.

If you like you can see my extended take on the comparison here. http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/23/wordpress-or-drupal/

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I recently converted my blog from wordpress to Drupal. It took a lot of work, but that's because I wanted to implement features that I never could do (or do beyond a point where it felt like an ugly hack). Here's what I did:

* Re-did tagging: the taxonomy module let me create multiple-parent hierarchy for my post categories, and supported free-tagging of posts.
* Implemented a proper image gallery, with images browsable via tag and Gallery. Use of thickbox for image previews, and the imagecache module to automatically generate thumbnails and multiple sizes of images.
* Created several additional content types for content segregation: Images, 'Links' (for linkblogging) and Book Reviews are their own node types, separated from the main posts (which are the "Story" node type)
* OpenID signin: no wordpress module did this adequately
* Selective captcha placement: the reCAPTCHA module is a wonderful thing (I'm a sucker for the book digitization process...) and Drupal's flexibility lets the module authors have an interface where you can insert captchas on any form.
* 'Page' is a proper content type, not an ugly hack.

If all you want is a blog, and all you'll ever want is a blog, wordpress is a decent choice. I can implement same functionality as the base wordpress install using Drupal in an hour (perhaps less), and then the sky's the limit whereas once you've installed Wordpress, you're done.

Potential. That's the single reason I would recommend Drupal over wordpress (or movable type, etc).

Of course, there are all the other reasons mentioned in this thread: crappy wordpress community support, centralization of third-party modules, active development, cutting edge tech... those are all good reasons too.

As you well know, Wordpress is practically turnkey, Drupal on the other hand is not what I would consider a turnkey system and you will actually need to learn about it, even get your hands dirty a bit - that said you will have a basic site with a default install of Drupal and there's absolutely no need to know any html, php or css etc although it never hurts to learn. Drupal is easy to extend with modules and there plenty to choose from.

Take one example of WP vs Drupal - havent you ever wanted to get rid of "category" out of the category URL's in WP? What a pain in WP to do so, but in Drupal that sort of thing is trivial using Pathauto.