Drupal Versus WordPress CMS

A Comparison between Drupal and WordPress CMS

Drupal is a very popular open source content management system (CMS) for building highly dynamic websites. WordPress, which started as a blogging platform, expanded its tools and capabilities with the aim of becoming a CMS. Most people seeking to have their websites developed get confused by a myriad of possibilities. Let us delve into Drupal versus WordPress debate.

Drupal vs WordPress: Ease of Use

WordPress is easier to use than Drupal. The key reasons for WordPress being easy to use are:

• It offers fewer page formatting tools than Drupal, making it easier for anyone with little or no experience in programming to start blogging.
• The WordPress UI (user interface) can offer many more formatting tools than what is visible to a newbie. However, these set of additional tools are hidden to avoid overwhelming a beginner.
• It is easier to set up and run than Drupal. Moreover, it is easier to modify backend code.

Conclusion: With a user-friendly UI, WordPress is easier to install and use.

Drupal vs WordPress: Custom Templates and Themes

Both Drupal and WordPress are supported by numerous free themes and templates, ranging from basic skins to more advanced, "newsy" ones, with multiple dashboards. However, the search on Google drew:

• 275 million results for free templates for WordPress
• 1 million results for free templates for Drupal
• 44 million results for free WordPress themes
• 550,000 results for free Drupal templates

Conclusion:If you're looking for a wider range of free skins for your website, the clear preference is WordPress.

Drupal vs WordPress: SEO Plugins or Modules

While both Drupal and WordPress are highly SEO friendly, if you want to enhance SEO functionalities on your website, you need to add some dedicated plugins. A Google search on the number of SEO plugins or modules offered by two gave the following results:

• WordPress SEO plugins: 7 million
• Drupal SEO modules: 344,000

Conclusion:Again, WordPress tops Drupal on the extent of SEO modules it can support.

Drupal vs WordPress: Interface

Drupal favors a hierarchical interface, with limited top-level entries. Although this type of an arrangement works well when you are adding only content, it gets tiresome when you are administering.

Conclusion: Although Drupal has more options than WordPress, they could have been arranged in a better manner.

Drupal vs WordPress: Comments and Spam

In both Drupal and WordPress, developers manage spam through the Akismet spam plugin. They can also provide a configurable email address in which all notifications about comments needing approval can come. While the use of links by WordPress to approve, delete or mark spam has advantages over Drupal's use of combo boxes, Drupal's ability to configure rules for access to a site balances that advantage.

Conclusion: Both Drupal and WordPress are equally efficient in enabling developers manage comments and spam. WordPress has an edge if you prefer ease of use and Drupal can be chosen if you want to focus on spam management.

Drupal vs WordPress: Performance

While WordPress has the basic functionalities of a CMS, it does not support the key content type creation functionality. Drupal is a far more robust CMS and can be efficiently used to handle large sites that require more thrust and capacity to run ecommerce shopping carts, dynamic forms and bolt-on functions for community sites, such as forums and chat.

Conclusion: WordPress is better suited for smaller sites that do not require complex functionality. Drupal offers more fine-tuning features and content management tools than WordPress.

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