Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:12:07 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com> Cc: "DTD" <doug@safeport.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drupal vs. Wordpress Message-ID: <49459.10.150.126.165.1510873927.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAKYr3zzKHZGwwjJ69=SKyASaAXQMJmiyUCDJFx76dMQT6tJjhQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1711161555140.94754@bucksport.safeport.com> <CAKYr3zzKHZGwwjJ69=SKyASaAXQMJmiyUCDJFx76dMQT6tJjhQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, November 16, 2017 4:04 pm, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:59 PM, DTD <doug@safeport.com> wrote: >> IMO the answer somewhat depends on if this is for you personally or >> something you are going to offer as a service. If you know PHP and are >> comfortable writing/hacking code PHP fragments it might be drupal would >> server you better. If is a commercial offering we decided on wordpress. >> If >> it's for you, why not try both. At the entry level they have similar >> interfaces. Both install easily. >> >> If you know CSS and HTML virtually anything is possible with wordpress >> with >> no PHP knowledge being needed. There are literally millions of plug-ins >> to >> extend wordpress in various areas. Drupal up to the current version >> considers backward compatibility a weakness. PHP must also be >> up-to-date. >> The main issue (I have) with word press is the original developer is >> having >> a food fight with the CMS wordpress users and developers in that his >> company >> (Automatic) wants to go in a different direction and (at least >> initially) >> take wordpress along for the ride. The FreeBSD parallel would have been >> if >> sendmail.com forced changes on the Unix community as a whole. >> >> The wordpress issue is kind of interesting and maybe should even be >> investigated to see what the affect would be for a commercial offering. >> For >> a personal or a single corporate website it is IMo largely irrelevant >> (but >> entertaining). >> > > IMHO dont use either of them, both have known issues with security > Agree. I for one prefer joomla and serendipity to wordpress, drupal... Valeri > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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