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

[dondi_2006]

Liza Sabater wrote:

> Hi Ortles,
> 
> I need a couple of questions answered before I tackle this
[...]
> (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.

If by blogging you mean "only one person publishing more or less
short text pieces tagged by date and some keywords" no, it's not
just blogging. I need to build two sites with several sections, 
each with sub/subsections, each section with mixed static and
dynamic material, and several other things that AFAIK aren't possible with Wordpress (not with GPL plugins at least). Furthermore, one of those sites will have to be co-edited by
me and others. That's why I'm almost sure I need a full fledged
CMS.

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

One per site, but one site will have multiple editors.

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

probably neither, see my other post. I don't care if *I* have to
do things by hand or from the command line, and I want the sites
more powerful than most blogs I've seen. I only want these
sites to be WP-like for *others*, that is in:

accessibility, findability and linkability by casual bloggers:
There are millions of people who would prefer torture to seeing
or editing HTML or PHP: but today they all have their blogs, and
can immediately link and refer to each other because by now they
can all trackback, pingback and search technorati.

I want my content to be linkable/trackable to and from normal
blogs just like, and with the same ease for my *visitors*, if it
had been created with WP or anything else which, by default,
adds "pingback" "trackback" and similar universally known buttons
for the web-coding challenged.

And for the same reasons, I want it to be searched/indexed also by blog specific search engines, just if it were a "normal" blog. 

I don't care if *I* have to patch Drupal by hand or hack my own
scripts, but I'd really like to know what is the easiest way to
achieve the above.

Thanks for any help,

Ortles