From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 16 23:12:14 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A0EDECEDB for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA94F70130 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 74060CB8CF3; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:12:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from 10.150.126.165 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:12:07 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <49459.10.150.126.165.1510873927.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:12:07 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Drupal vs. Wordpress From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Outback Dingo" Cc: "DTD" , "FreeBSD" Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:12:14 -0000 On Thu, November 16, 2017 4:04 pm, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:59 PM, DTD 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++