Open source wars: WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla
Every IT person, developer, and programmer has an opinion when it comes to the various open source content management systems out there. It often comes down to functionality and ease of use, but even then the lines are often blurred and there is rarely a clear-cut victor. WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla – which is really the king of open source CMS?
Our friends at Devious Media tackled the question and did a comprehensive breakdown, putting each CMS under a microscope to answer the most important questions to help people make a choice. For us, the choice is clear, but blogging is not the only thing important in the internet world. Other functionality traits need to be considered.
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why would google adwords for Drupal be double the other two if it is so bad?
i have only used Drupal for the last 3 years and find it very easy to use and flexible – sure I could say the same for the others if I was to have used them as much.
Joomla is the best of all three worlds for me in my experience.
I’ve developed in Drupal, WP and Joomla for many companies, news organizations and so on.
In designing and developing, I found that the site managers implementing content to the site(s) are key. Take account the learning curve in these three products. Joomla has been the choice for clients as it’s level of difficulty is moderate compared to Drupal. Now WP seems a tad wimsicle where its robustness doesnt compare to Drupal.
WP is nice for smaller projects, small businesses but even that can be debatable, but Drupal and Joomla offer more as a developer. Ultimately, With Joomla 1.8, u can pretty much do all of what Drupal 7 and WP have to offer. It gives site managers great ease in learning to use the product while providing great features.
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I agree. The reason why I use WordPress is because it focuses on the users, not on the site managers or on the designers. Ultimately, when designing and installing a site, 99% of my maintenance time will be spent on dealing with what users do, and for that, WordPress is difficult to beat — although a very personalised Drupal backoffice which gives users just the options they need is a compromise (and possibly a good strategy as well!).
Of course, for developers wishing to develop as much as possible from scratch, and caring little about what users are going to do (specially if it’s a site where nobody will have access to the backoffice; a typical example being a social networking site, for instance), I guess that Drupal would be the better choice.
if you have a job as IT admin for a single company, yeah, I’d go with Drupal or WP, but like Gwyneth said, WordPress is about the USER. for those of us who have a small business that wants a website, one that we DON’T have to keep helping them update, WP is the way to go.
Sure Drupal and Joomla offer more to the developer, but how often do you actually have to use it?
Great article! Would love to see the raw data. 😛
Agree with the last 3 metrics. 😀
probably, my favorite article so far when it comes to wordpress, joomla and drupal comparison.