[support] How to make drupal friendly to Wordpress / blog users?

[Liza Sabater]

Hi Ortles,

I need a couple of questions answered before I tackle this since I  
use the software from a blogger POV:

(1) What is it that you want to get from Drupal that you don't get  
from WordPress? Meaning, are you using it just for blogging or for  
something else, like setting a calendar of events, bookreviews,  
recipes, etc.

(2) Are you using one Drupal installation for one user or setting it  
up for multiple users?

(3) At what level do you want it to be WP-like? The design or the  
admin/editing interface?


l i z a sabater
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On Jan 17 2006, at 09:52, dondi_2006 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have to build a new website. Initially I considered
> wordpress, then I realized that Drupal is better for
> the way I must/want manage and categorize content.
>
> The reason to consider wordpress was that all blogging
> software make very easy to bloggers (= web surfers who do
> not know and do not want to know php, html, mysql....) to
> trackback, pingback, discover new articles through
> technoratic, pingomatic and similar, write about
> them and cross link them...
>
> In a nutshell, I had the impression that I should use a
> blog tool not because it was best for *me* as the
> publisher: only to make it much easier and faster for the
> non technical web user to discover and cross-reference
> (=advertise!) my own pages from their blogs: you know,
> to provide all the trackback, pingback, permalink stuff
> etc... that they already know from *their* own wordpress/
> MT/whatever installation.
>
> So the question is, if/how it is possible to make a Drupal
> Website look/act like another blog from this point of view?
> Which settings, plugins, whatever?
>
> Also, can you provide URLs of drupal-powered websites which
> already do this, so I can see the final effect?
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>
> Ortles
>
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