{"id":198,"date":"2007-09-15T22:51:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T03:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2007\/wordpress-vs-drupal\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T02:58:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T07:58:45","slug":"wordpress-vs-drupal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2007\/wordpress-vs-drupal\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress vs. Drupal and Rebuilding a Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/wp-20-button-trans.gif\" alt=\"wordpress-logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Killersites.com was started by David Siegal  (of &#8216;Creating Killer Web Sites&#8217; fame) back around 1996. This was effectively the first version of the site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/drupalorg.png\" alt=\"drupal-logo\" style=\"float: right; margin: 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2002-2003, I officially took over and started version 2 of killersites.com. It has gone through a lot of changes over the last 4-5 years that has resulted in a lot of web design related content &#8230; too much content to manage with html, php and jsp pages running all over the place!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; It is time for a major shift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress vs. Drupal and Killersites.com version 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been evaluating CMS and blog tools that would help me to build and organize the new killersites.com &#8211; I&#8217;ve narrowed it down to WordPress or Drupal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;  Actually, I&#8217;ve decided (99% sure &#8230;) to go with WordPress for a few reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why WordPress:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress is simple to install, configure and modify.<\/li>\n<li>WordPress is object oriented.<\/li>\n<li>WordPress has a huge community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, one major point is that WordPress meets our needs. We will have perhaps only 5-6 contributers and so there was no need for a more complex\/robust system like Drupal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Drupal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drupal is powerful and has a lot going for it &#8230; but too much for us. That said, it has a few things going against it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is NOT object oriented.<\/li>\n<li>It is very close to a major new release, moving from 5.2 to 6.<\/li>\n<li>It is MUCH more work to configure than WordPress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I had envisioned a much bigger project, then maybe I would have gone with Drupal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; In the end, you ought to pay attention to today and the near future, and not worry about what may happen two years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.killerphp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killersites.com was started by David Siegal (of &#8216;Creating Killer Web Sites&#8217; fame) back around 1996. This was effectively the first version of the site. In 2002-2003, I officially took over and started version 2 of killersites.com. It has gone through a lot of changes over the last 4-5 years that has resulted in a lot &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,34],"tags":[29,103,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}