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The question was about features and code quality, not ease of use. Drupal is harder to learn, but definitely wins on the other two.


I don't know about code quality but please elaborate on features. Could you name any features of Drupal that Wordpress doesn't have ?


I can. (And I'm not saying this makes Drupal better than Wordpress, just different. I really like both tools.) Drupal is better suited than WP for each user to be throwing back as much content as they're consuming. When the membership is more "flat," a la YouTube/Flickr/Facebook. (Drupal is kind of notorious for making proof of concept clones of all the major social sites.)

Drupal also has hooks for creating "nodes" (a Drupal word for a page, basically), from external DB's, and can create custom content types, with any combination of fields/menus without making the end-user seeing anything ugly (WP also has a custom field type option, but it forces the publisher into a type of Administrator view, whereas in Drupal, you can make the custom content view look as pretty and neat as Twitter submit form, or any interface.)

Again, I'm NOT saying Drupal is better than WP, it's just really different. I actually hesitate to compare them. I think Drupal is more similar to Django/Rails. It's a framework, but with an really ugly admin panel, and it's that GUI that makes people compare it to WP, which of course has an incredible admin interface that makes any WP user rightfully wrinkle their nose when first using Drupal :D


Nice post and trying to not pick one or the other :P

So from what you said...is there any reason for a normal someone not too good at coding to choose Drupal over WP if you're making a site with minimal user interaction? There are a lot of WP plugins to help with turning it into more of a CMS for sites than just a blog so that part can be taken care of.


I can't think of a reason not to choose WP over Drupal for the scenario you're describing. You sound like you're on the right track.


Some of Drupal's best features come in the form of modules (there are over 4000). Some of the most powerful:

Dynamic content types (CCK module), Query builder (Views module), Triggers and Actions (Rules module).

If you want to explore, take a look at http://drupalmodules.com/




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