Comments on: Drupal to WordPress Weblog Migration

By: arun

arun — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:28:25 +0000

u may me right in your point of view.. but if u want to built a interactive and a powerful site u need drupal. i accept drupal is bit hard but it is much flexible than any cms once u got with it when u learn it..

in short Wp is nothing to drupal.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:06:33 +0000

@JM Drupal: For a person who wants a simple blog, it's not that wordpress will "do"; it's that WordPress is (presently) by far a better choice from the point of view of usability.

You say that I didn't dig enough into the world of Drupal to get into views and cck. Don't you see that's the point—I don't want to have to did to do something as simple as tweak the theme of my simple blog. Visit the WordPress admin interface: Design->Theme Editor. No digging, two clicks, can't miss it, boom- you're there. (And they've even been thoughtful enough to tell me my theme files aren't presently writeable. :)

You say WP will hit a wall as soon as a project exceeds a certain scope and complexity of features required by the client. Absolutely true. But this article is focused on a simple personal blog.

Drupal's biggest problem, in my view, is usability. (Just look at what I reported, linked to above, regarding the comment moderation workflow.) And I believe, from his recent writings, that Dries himself would totally agree with that.

By: JM Drupal

JM Drupal — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:43:47 +0000

You are probably right that Drupal terminology is somehow confusing for the novice user. As well it is correct that if a simple blog is all you want wordpress will do.

On the other hand it shows that you didn´t really dig into the world of Drupal - views and cck are two important modules and once one starts using Drupal you basically can´t avoid stumble over them.

Targetgroup in mind - WP will hit a wall as soon as a project exceeds a certain scope and complexity of features required by the client - if you have a company active in this field you certainly can confirm that.