Why I hate Drupal and Love Wordpress | Drupal VS Wordpress
My experience has been in Drupal, I originally used it because Drupal was recommended by a SEO guru via an email communication I had with him. You may know him, Aaron Wall. He uses Drupal for seobook.com, and he suggested that I use it as well, and later he even wrote a blog entry about it.
I used Drupal for years and was always incredibly loyal to Drupal. Even after an update that came out broke one of my sites and casued my revenue to decrease by 90% in a few days.
I can optimize the heck out of a site using Drupal, this site is built on Drupal. But Drupal is a pain in the butt!!! It takes a lot of technical knowhow and hours upon hours of configuration before you can get things the way you want them.
Things are definitely getting better, but really, I do not care. From this point on I am going to opt for Wordpress unless the site requires Drupal for some future planned expansion. Granted the newer Drupal version are starting to catch up, but I am tired of updating things weekly, I am tired of having things break whenever I update something without spending a ton of time reading to make sure I do it all right.
Don't get me wrong, I still know Drupal to be a superior CMS*, it is coded expertly, by a really smart group loyalist. However, Drupal strives to do too much with limited support, while Wordpress does. One serious advantage Drupal brings to the table is the use of hooks, which makes a ton of code customizations possible where as Wordpress is limited in this way. Let us be honest though, will you use this function anytime soon? If you answered yes to that question, what the heck are you reading this blog for? Go do something elite, I am talking to the other 95% of CMS users, who use a CMS because they can not write their own PHP code.
How about I just switch to Wordpress instead. With Wordpress I simply click a button to install a mod, or update my version. Sorry Drupal, but I got to make the switch for my small less demanding clients from this point on.
Maybe in the future I will switch back but for now in the Drupal vs Wordpress debate, Wordpress gets my vote.
*Just to define the diffence for all you business guys out there who use the jargon but in reality do not know what the heck you are talking about.
CMS = Content Management System
CRM = Customer Relationship Management.
They are two entirely different things, however it is possible to take a Good CMS and make in into a CRM through use of Modules, Plugins and more, but not the other way around.
