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Being a Drupal user since 2000(yes, that's 18 years) I now am moving all my sites to wordpress. Never liked Drupal 8 is the main reason. That been said, Drupal

by ausjke 9y ago

Being a Drupal user since 2000(yes, that's 18 years) I now am moving all my sites to wordpress. Never liked Drupal 8 is the main reason. That been said, Drupal 8 might be a good fit for large sites that needs flexibility and customization, for most (smaller) projects though, wordpress seems a better choice these days, its popularity proves that.

mattferderer 9y ago
Have you tried Ghost or Netlify's CMS? I would highly suggest them for small sites over Wordpress. I find Wordpress runs into many of the same issues as Drupal.
- ausjke 9y ago
  heard about both. Ghost looks like more for the hosting service similar to wordpress.com. I want to self-host, so it is not the best option. a quick check did not reveal how Netlify does its CMS, e.g. post can be public/private/user-access-by-permissions, note CMS means I can classify various levels of access rights, i.e. content-management(instead of just publishing). Most CMS are geared towards public viewing, which is what blog does, but CMS should do more, Drupal with its access module got CMS right(still not built-in though), Wordpress is similar, default for public viewing, but you have plugin to control each posts' access rights. I have yet to see an OSS CMS without the need of modules/plugins to make it a true CMS.
  - mattferderer 9y ago
    You can host Ghost on your own but it doesn't have much for user access levels. Netlify offers something but I haven't used it - https://www.netlify.com/docs/identity/ https://www.netlify.com/docs/identity/
hunvreus 9y ago
I was pretty involved the Drupal community for a while (permanent member of the DA, multiple modules, running a Drupal dev shop...) but left a while ago [1]. Just move to Jekyll or similar. Combined with a CMS like Jekyll+ [2] you can create very large sites and apps without having to bend a bloated stack to do what you it do in the front-end. You'll spend less time configuring things in an admin panel, and more time actually investing in the UX. For reference, we used it to build the new Starbucks website [3]. 1: http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/ http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/ 2: https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus 3: https://wiredcraft.com/blog/the-new-starbucks-cn-website-bold-mobile-first-and-hyper-personalized/ https://wiredcraft.com/blog/the-new-starbucks-cn-website-bol...

by ausjke 9y ago

mattferderer 9y ago

Have you tried Ghost or Netlify's CMS? I would highly suggest them for small sites over Wordpress. I find Wordpress runs into many of the same issues as Drupal.

ausjke 9y ago
heard about both. Ghost looks like more for the hosting service similar to wordpress.com. I want to self-host, so it is not the best option. a quick check did not reveal how Netlify does its CMS, e.g. post can be public/private/user-access-by-permissions, note CMS means I can classify various levels of access rights, i.e. content-management(instead of just publishing). Most CMS are geared towards public viewing, which is what blog does, but CMS should do more, Drupal with its access module got CMS right(still not built-in though), Wordpress is similar, default for public viewing, but you have plugin to control each posts' access rights. I have yet to see an OSS CMS without the need of modules/plugins to make it a true CMS.
- mattferderer 9y ago
  You can host Ghost on your own but it doesn't have much for user access levels. Netlify offers something but I haven't used it - https://www.netlify.com/docs/identity/ https://www.netlify.com/docs/identity/

hunvreus 9y ago

I was pretty involved the Drupal community for a while (permanent member of the DA, multiple modules, running a Drupal dev shop...) but left a while ago [1]. Just move to Jekyll or similar. Combined with a CMS like Jekyll+ [2] you can create very large sites and apps without having to bend a bloated stack to do what you it do in the front-end. You'll spend less time configuring things in an admin panel, and more time actually investing in the UX. For reference, we used it to build the new Starbucks website [3]. 1: http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/ http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/ 2: https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus 3: https://wiredcraft.com/blog/the-new-starbucks-cn-website-bold-mobile-first-and-hyper-personalized/ https://wiredcraft.com/blog/the-new-starbucks-cn-website-bol...