By cpkid on

I have a client who is in need of a community type website with:

- blog (with multiple bloggers)
- chat
- custom user groups where only admins have control and its on a per invite basis
- the main page accessible but everything else requiring a log in
- forum (again, users are only allowed to post if they have been invited)

I was going to go with the Wordpress/Buddypress combo on this but I thought why not look at other options to see if there are better solutions.

So please, Drupal community, let me know if Drupal would be best for what I need. Also, I've noticed that Drupal has different distributions which I'm not totally clear on. Which is good for what?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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newbie88’s picture

newbie88 commented

in wordpress u can make it all too sir, but in Drupal is can make better too, But both of them is good to make your project, So it is up to u sir

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

While Drupal will do all that, if Wordpress will also do that, unless you want to try Drupal I would probably pick Wordpress since I assume it would be faster to implement with what you know.

If you go with Drupal you will want at least
blog module (core)
for chat there are several chat modules to pick from
organic groups for groups (contributed module).
for limiting people to front page, the front module would be one choice.
forum module (core)

newbie88’s picture

newbie88 commented

Agree sir Nevets With u

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Bricks and Clicks Marketing
Location Durham, NC
commented

Wordpress is much, MUCH better for blogging - the built-in image handling is well worth it.

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