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I am the last person in this world to malign Drupal, I have been contributing for twenty long, long years to it. But no, Drupal is not an alternative to Wordpr
by chx 2y ago
I am the last person in this world to malign Drupal, I have been contributing for twenty long, long years to it.
But no, Drupal is not an alternative to Wordpress. Perhaps ten years ago but even then barely. Now? That's like saying a Kenworth semi is an alternative to a motorcycle. Sure, you can get from A to B on either but beyond that, they are really different tools for different jobs.
Maybe the new "Drupal CMS" (nee Starshot) initiative will bring them into direct competition again. We will see.
- moehm 2y agoI considered switching to Drupal. For which use cases do you think Drupal will shine? And for which not?
- chx 2y agoI would rather answer the first one :) Multilingual is built into Drupal and as far as I am aware, it's a plugin for Wordpress. Complex permissions/access control is another area where Drupal is much stronger. And overall, the more complex the requirements are , the more likely Drupal will be the answer. Wordpress leans very heavily towards "here, install this, it'll work, you can tweak it and that's about it". Drupal gives you a gigantic bucket of LEGO. In other words, although it's a bit of an exaggeration but not badly, with Wordpress you start from a working website and there's only so far you can walk from that point. With Drupal, you need to walk quite a bit in the first place to get a good website but there's just no end how far you can walk.
- moehm 2y agoThanks, that helped a lot.