Drupal Tips Monday: When to use Drupal?
I get this question a lot: When should you use Drupal over other content management systems such as WordPress?
The only easy answer is: it depends.
To understand why, let’s explore a few things about WordPress and Drupal.
WordPress
WordPress is a fantastically flexible blogging platform. It looks great, has a strong backend and is very easy to use.
WordPress can be hacked into becoming a Content Management system, but it’s not the way it’s designed out of the box.
Drupal
Drupal is a powerful full fledged content management system that can manage many different types of content, not just blog content
While Drupal has a blog module built in, it’s not solely designed to operate at a blog. It’s built to manage many different types of content.
What are you going to do?
If you’re goal is to simply run a blog, then WordPress is by far the best option for that. You can use Drupal to run your blog, but it has a harder learning curve.
If you are going to grow beyond a simple blog and create a community around your niche blog that will have different types of content then I would recommend taking the time to learn and use Drupal.
You will save yourself many headaches in the end.
I fully agree with you here.
Too many people try to insist one is better than the other, but it all comes down to the answer “It depends”.
I’m growing to really like Drupal as I learn it, but you can’t beat WordPress as a purely blogging platform.
I send Will’s vote for your opinion. I’m just starting with Drupal, but my wordpress blog was about the easiest thing in the world to get up and running, and is so easy to use, and does exactly what I’d want a blog to do. I’m looking to use Drupal for “more” not because WordPress was missing anything.
Great blog by the way. Just found it today, and really like how your posts are useful.
David