Comments on: One Year Observation Between Drupal And WordPress.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:18:00 +0000

Hi Keyz,

Thanks for the reply, I should have stated that better in that until the modules where either caught up or updated there where issues.

It was primarily with pagination which needed a noindex/follow before the metedata was noindex/nofollow which as we know creates some problems.

That was the final issue I saw, now I have to say it’s working great, now if I could only remember which module controlled it. Ah another post down the road.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:53:35 +0000

Hi Jamie,

I have often thought about moving one of my sites, from a static – blog site to Drupal. With over 500 pages, I’m not sure if it’s worth the time to complete it.

I’ve not really noticed any performance issues for either system. While the sites all reside on a single server, 6 sites total, it is a running two dual core processors, 3 gigs of ram etc… Yet, I’m sure with further tweaking it could be made to run faster.

Thanks for the feed back.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:03:58 +0000

Hi Steve,

I find that Drupal is also a good blogging platform, but it really is designed more multiple users I.E. building a community. I think what your trying to point out is if your a single user WordPress is best, for multiple users Drupal beats it hands down.

By: Keyz

Keyz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You mentioned SEO as something you're not quite happy with in Drupal, but it wasn't clear what issue you were having. Can you be more specific? Firstly, Drupal core outputs XHTML compliant, semantic code, and the majority of contributed modules do as well. Given Pathauto (flexible seo friendly URLs), Global Redirect (assurance of a single canonical path for each page, no duplicate URLs), Path Redirect (ensure any changed paths get properly redirected), Page Title (separate title in the browser versus page), Meta tags (aka Nodewords, for per page meta tags), and other modules (even SEO Checklist module haha), there seems to be tools for every possible concern, depending on what you feel your site needs - is there anything missing? According to some info I read, a few tweaks to robots.txt "may" be in order when it comes to exposed filters in Views module (though I've yet to find a high profile site that does so)... be sure to check the install/readme note of modules you use (for instance, Print module gives robots.txt instructions for how to keep the print versions of pages from being considered duplicate content). For examples of robots.txt on high profile Drupal sites, add robots.txt to the URL of any Drupal site. Hope this helps :)

By: Steve - dunk shoes

Steve - dunk shoes — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

No doubt, Drupal is very robust application as content management system but WordPress is good at blogging. At some level, we mix up CMS and blogging software to confusion starts from there. I think wordpress is best for blogging and it is good for seo perspective. On the other hand, nothing can beat druapl when it comes to limit the users and users are involved logging in the site etc. There is no logic that we need registrations on wordpress for users because users only come to read the content. We can use Drupal as the full site application.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past couple of years I have moved quiet a few larger blogs from WordPress to Drupal. IMHO WordPress is great for starting out, but it seems that once a blog gains popularity they want a lot more robust site and that is Drupal territory.

Also when it comes to performance Drupal wins hands down. Most of the sites I did upgrades on performed much better under Drupal than WordPress and that is without any server tuning. Once I got in and tweaked MySQL then it made that much more of a difference.

By: Hip hop

Hip hop — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Glenn, this kind of articles is what I was needing to migrate from WP to Drupal. I’m actually using wordpress for my site, which has 750 posts, 7000 comments and more than 1200 registered users, but I think it’s time to step my game up. I’m now learning Drupal and trying to develope a site for a friend first, then I’ll go into Drupal. I hope I could learn it ASAP. Best wishes for you and congratulation for this post!

ALe! PLUZ

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I switched from Drupal to wordpress because wordpress
- simpler
- easier to upgrade – 4 clicks practically with certain plugins
- easier to code
- most things you can do in drupal can be done in with 3 different plugins in WordPress

I still love Drupal though. I used Drupal to develop an Intranet and Inventory Management system at work.