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By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:18:39 +0000

Easier to theme? Yeah right. If I have to do one more theme for a client and use that damn “loop,” I might lose it.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:26:49 +0000

I’ve tried Joomla, but not Drupal. I find that Wordpress is the easiest to use.

By: Garrett Albright

Garrett Albright — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:37:49 +0000

I use Drupal’s standard multi-site features for my personal sites, and it does indeed make life easier. I highly recommend learning how to use it – it’s not hard at all once you wrap your head around how it works.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:33:47 +0000

if Drupal had one-click upgrade as well, I’d be using that instead in a shot.

I second that! Constantly updating modules in Drupal is a massive pain, and has me considering a multisite setup in order to save me repeating the process over four or five different times for each Drupal install I maintain.

Having said that, I’m using Drupal for my main blog, and it’s fine, although you’re right, you’ve got to roll up your sleeves and configure everything from scratch.

By: HansBKK

HansBKK — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:58:08 +0000

Absolutely nothing wrong with using Story content types for blog posts if it’s a single user setup. The Blog module’s only needed for multiple-author blogging.

Yes Drupal’s more involved for newbies, but if you already know Drupal basics, I’d always recommend that over WordPress – how do you know what you might want to do with a site in the future, and moving the content over from one platform to another’s a right royal PITA.

By: venkat-rk

venkat-rk — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:08:53 +0000

You only have to look at onsugar.com to see what’s possible for blogging with Drupal as the underlying framework. I doubt if that could have been built as easily with Wordpress as the foundation. Hopefully, some of that work will make it back to Drupal in some form and then Drupal could really challenge WordPress as a blogging platform.

By: Garrett Albright

Garrett Albright — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:55:22 +0000

tuntis: I agree that Drupal is overkill for someone who wants “just a blog,” but at the same time, you seem to have some wrong ideas. You don’t need to download new modules for a blog, since the “story” content type is there out-of-the-box. You’ll need to enable the Comment module if you want comments, and in that case you’ll also want to download and install an anti-spam module; if you want to put articles in tags/categories, you’ll need to enable the Taxonomy module. That’s about it. By default, content of the “story” type will appear on the default Drupal front page when posted, so no work to do there. And anonymous visitors can most certainly specify a user name. Check out my blog, which uses the “story” type for articles, displays them with Drupal’s default front page system (it’s not a View, though Views are used for a couple blocks), and allows anonymous commenters to provide a name and web site.

If all you want is a blog and you want it up and running in half an hour or less, WordPress is great. Drupal is also completely up to that task, though I’ll concede that its “do-too-much-ness” may confuse novice users.

By: Rob Loach

Rob Loach — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:55:19 +0000

This is Drupal, not Wordpress…
- chx (http://drupal4hu.com/node/92)