[support] Another Drupal vs WordPress question

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The thing is there is big chance I’ll build in the future dozen (or even several dozens) small websites for small nonprofits, so it’s about decision which way to go, considering maintenance, speed, updates, theming, easy for users to learn to maintain the content, etc. So, right now, for a website or two, I would not worry about it. But I believe it would be good to think a little bit  for a sake of future, right?



On Mar 18, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Patrick Avella <me at patrickavella.com> wrote:

> This thread is getting out of hand.
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> Use what you are most comfortable with, or what your client is most comfortable with. Usability is mostly familiarity, and this extends to maintenance + development times for developers. If you have a lot of experience with drupal but none with wordpress, it will almost always be more efficient (both in terms of speed and best practice) to build with drupal. This is also vice versa. 
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> There are very few concrete reasons why to choose one CMS over another as it all tends to be dogma based. Almost all of them sport similar features. At the end of the day all that matters is the opinions of your stakeholders. Exceptions to this are few and far between as all major CMS have enterprise level services available. 
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> So basically, use what feels right!
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> Cheers,
> Patrick
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Don <donald at fane.com> wrote:
> For a small, fixed, brochure site I'd go with html.
> For a low budget blog site with no shopping cart, WP.
> For an easy to maintain mom & pop shop CMS, I would recommend joomla though I haven't used it in a while.
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> For a site with a secure shopping cart, multiple authors and editors, or more complex setup then I'd recommend Drupal.
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> I also think that Drupal is probably the most secure of all the different platforms. I've been porting a customer from Drupal to WP (because WP is easier to maintain donchya know) and I've been kind of horrified at the WP code.
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> On 3/18/2015 12:33 PM, Drupal wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>> Actually, I'm not asking which CMS is better or something. I use Drupal for almost 6 years but, still, I would put myself to "higher beginner" level. 90% of my websites are small, simple, intro websites I built for friends and "clients". Mostly with News, Basic, Events/Calendar, Webform, Forum... content types. Pretty standard. 
>> So, my question is "When is Drupal to big for a website?" When would WP fit better? Or even when would home-made-code fit better? Where is "the line" you step over and have to use Drupal? If a small nonprofit asks you to build small website with some basic stuff, for free if possible, would you still build it on Drupal?
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>> Thanks for any input,
>> afan 
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