100%, absolutely!

Hi Jason!

I have a small interactive agency and we specialize in WordPress as our CMS platform. None of our websites look like they’re set up on WordPress, and all of them are so multi-functional and diverse, it’s just incredible!

@jasonwiser I used Drupal for a few months in a previous position. It was ok for posting basic text but I found it unwieldy for adding images. That’s my 2 cts.

Now I use a generic CMS system to update my association’s website. If we add a blog later this year, I will consider using WordPress.

@jasonwiser  I too, sing the praises of WordPress! It’s easy to use, once you understand it. Easy to update content, and we all know Google wants the newest best content there is. Easy to modify and customize. 24% of all the sites being built right now are built on WordPress.

@amyhallbiz yeah great to point out those numbers. 

With get_post_meta and customized loop functions, you can have loops inside loops, multiple loops on a page, etc. And this is relatively simple. It is real easy to simulate the “nodes” that drive Drupal this way. And creating custom pages with many different customized dynamic content regions is a breeze. And have you really looked at the number of tables, out of the box for Drupal vs. Wordppress? Crazy huh?

@jasonwiser Hey everybody, it’s always a great thing to be the first one disagreeing. So here I go. I think WP is not comparable to Drupal, because they are not meant to be used for the exact same thing. WP is an easy out-of-the-box blog CMS. It is built to maintain a simple news based workflow. You don’t need to have any programming knowledge to set up a site. WP is simply the best for blog based sites.

Drupal, however, is, in my opinion, much better for bigger, more holistic, websites. Yes, Drupal needs much more customization. You need to decide about a wysiwyg-editor, you need to add fundamental modules, and you definetely need knowledge, in hmtl, php and css. But once you get there, Drupal offers the best workflow for maintaining large user groups with different access levels to content and backend, for maintaining a huge sitemap with different levels (WP is not built for multi level menus), for customizing your content in different regions on your site (WP does a sidebar, yes, but Drupal and Joomla have multi level regions built in). And – this goes at least for Switzerland, having four official languages – Drupal is much, much better in integrating a logic and consistent multilingual environment.

For my web projects I choose WP for a news/blog-site, Joomla for small websites and Drupal for large projects.

That being said, I herewith declare myself ready for bearing the blame

@jasonwiser I agree with @ecumenix on this argument.  Drupal is an extremely robust system that comes with much more muscle than Wordpress.  It is a bit more sophisticated and not as easy to initially set-up as a Wordpress site, however the infrastructure, security and taxonomy that comes with Drupal is well worth the learning curve.

As far as ease of functionality from a clients perspective, when we develop our sites in Drupal and “hand over the keys”, we do not give them 100% admin access, we minimize the functionality to exactly what they want to alleviate the headaches of all the bells and whistles, this has proven successful and most of our clients prefer to have the minimalist version of the Drupal CMS.

I recently wrote a blog post on “Top 10 Reasons We Love Drupal CMS“