What Is The Best Cms? Wordpress? Joomla? Drupal?
January 22, 2010 under FAQ
Hi there,
Apart from the preferences of the LAMP developer, what would be the reasons of choosing one CMS rather than another one?
Is Joomla better than Drupal? Is WordPress better than Joomla?
Thanks in advance for your responses.
Alex
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I use Drupal for large custom sites and I love Konductor (http://www.konductor.net) for giving my clients simple site edits.
Depends on how much modifying you want to do.
Wordpress is more dedicated to blogging but it can easily be modded to become a CMS. There is good documentation on it. Checkout the Wordpress Codex. There are also a lot of plugins which you can use and modify freely.
I find Joomla is chunkier than Wordpress, but the core is more functional due to the bulk. Joomla is a bit nastier to modify in my opinion. You can add on to the Joomla core by installing extensions. There are a lot.
Drupal is decent. I’m not actually sure on how easy it is to modify, however, as for most of my previous jobs I have used Wordpress and Joomla.
What are you trying to do? Depending on what you actually require will change which one is the top choice.
Just so you understand my biases…my shop’s deployment environment is LAMP. Our developers’ OS and IDE environments are about 2/3: Windows + Dreamweaver - 1/3: Linux + Eclipse.
Wordpress is not primarily a CMS. It’s a blogging framework that incorporates just enough CMS to support the blogging aspect. I’m not saying WP can’t be used as a CMS, but you’d be saddled with a limited degree of flexibility.
Drupal and Joomla are enormously complex but entirely flexible with no preconceptions about the “face” of the applications they serve. Either is good, and the “Drupal vs. Joomla” debate (often heated) is EXTENSIVELY well represented on the Internet.
My shop uses Concrete5 for the primary virtue that the content management can actually be handed over to the non-geek, business customer. That is, C5 is easy to use after it’s configured for a site - normal (non-geek) users can add/change/delete content with almost zero learning curve. C5 takes a page-oriented approach to the presentation of content for editing, which corresponds closely to way users think about their content.
C5 was originally developed as a proprietary product by a team of professional developers and has since been released as an Open Source product (under the MIT license, which is about as permissive as it gets). You can check out C5 at:http://www.concrete5.org/