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- designde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the question isn't really about which CMS to use, it is more about whether to use Wordpress as a CMS if you are already using it to blog. Most bloggers maintain portions of a Web site outside Wordpress and wonder if they should manage their entire site with Wordpress. The question also applies to small businesses who want a blog platform and a CMS. Should the designer consider extending Wordpress to manage their entire Web site? Once you've chosen to blog with Wordpress, these questions become relevant.
Simply choosing Wordpress as a CMS really doesn't seem the best option, especially when stacked up against Drupal. I agree with your main point that comparing Wordpress, Drupal and Xoops is hardly merited unless you're already devoted to Wordpress and are weighing the pros and cons of taking your relationship with Wordpress to the next level. - panatlantica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would definitively NOT compare WordPress, Xoops and Drupal - this is like comparing, say mountain shoes with flipflops with elegant black lether shoes (no relation to any of the three CMS in this example) - and I really ask myself: when will people finally understand that they cannot compare like this or say: system A is better then system B or C when all do different things.
All are shoes as well as all are CMS. It really depends WHAT the goal is you want to persui to find out which app is the "best" for a particular purpose. You wouldn't go mountain walking in flip flops or were black lether shoes at the beach, would you?!
Xoops is a typical Web 1.0 Bulliten Board and Community System. It has a rigid structure and is intended for a particular use: build a web site that can be used to discuss a topic with many people. Good Software but rather one goal. Xoops can be bent to do other things, as most CMS, but I would not recommend that as you might run into a scalablility problem and simply because, for larger stuff, Xoops would become TOO complex.
WordPress is a brilliant blogging tool. So if you publish content in a (time-) linear way but also want to categorieze this content for a more non-linear content approach, and add some static pages, WordPress is great!
Drupal does NOT fit into all of the above as well as it DOES fit into all of the above categories:
First off, it is NOT a typical blogging tool or typical CMS or typical community system in the way that a lot in Drupal is much much more abstracted and NOT ment to do one particular thing. So Drupal in fact is much more like Ruby on Rails, although not as open and as versatile as RoR (but compared to RoR, you do not need to write EVERYTHING from scratch): it is a web application framework. It offers you the most common needed things for any kind of web site, like user authentication and basic CMS features. But then come the modules, that, compared to Xoops and Joomla, are much more on a "meta" level and higher abstracted. An example: a calendar and event system for Xoops or Joomla or Wordpress does JUST that. Offer an event scheduleing and event display system. Drupal however offers this as a basic functionality and you can even built a web site for an airline offering a flight schedule, with is similar to an event callendar, but needs a lot more logic as well as also two date and time fields: one for departure one for arrival - alongside additional related info like aircraft type and destination info.
Xoops offers a huge array of prefab layouts. But they tend to all look quite alike. Drupal, from out of the box, is the same, sadly, but this is due to the fact, that PHPtemplate, it's template engine, has only been made default template engine since that last release. In fact, PHPtemplate is the most powerfull CMS template engines I have ever seen, enabling "bending" the CMS output in ANY given way, even make an event calendar output look like an airline flight schedule, which cannot be done with standard modules/extensions in ANY other CMS around if these modules/extensions haven't been written for exaclty this purpose.
WordPress is rather limited in functionality even with modules available, but this is because the WP guys want to to be a GREAT blogging platform, not an all-round tool!
So Drupal is really the only all-rounder there is, really, but also one that is at first look easy, but at second look extremely deep from a knowledge point of view and most people might be better off with more easy systems, like WP or Xoops, but, as a conclusion: it also depends on WHAT you want to do!
WordPress is BRILLIANT, so is Drupal and so is Xoops. So people: STOP comparing these things. You cannot even compare Macs with Windowsmachines, they are DIFFERENT and their respective creators had different things in mind. MS Word can't even be compared to AbiWord, OpenOffice Writer or Apple Pages, although ALL three do the SAME thing: writing documents - even all three can write the same file-type! But all three are different, and although I personally prefer OpenOffice or Apple Pages, Word remains just as good, just my PERSONAL likes is different.
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