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Update: I'm still learning HTML/CSS for now. Have understood the basics of Drupal, but it'll take some time until I get a site up and running.
 
A very vague answer to my question. I am sure wordpress/jomla can do 100 things. And lets say Drupal does 60. what is the 40 that Drupal cant do?
I have been using drupal for long now(its mmy bread and butter at the moment) and can nowhere think of any area where drupal is limited in comparision to wordpress/joomla.
 
techygeek said:
A very vague answer to my question. I am sure wordpress/jomla can do 100 things. And lets say Drupal does 60. what is the 40 that Drupal cant do?
I have been using drupal for long now(its mmy bread and butter at the moment) and can nowhere think of any area where drupal is limited in comparision to wordpress/joomla.
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How many themes/plugins does Wordpress have and how many does Drupal have?
Thank you.
 
Oh you were talking about list of contributed modules/themes available?
Out of the Box wordpress maybe more suited for a blog.
but drupal has never been made for people who just want to mix and match the contribs.
The OP is looking to get into development.

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Also the number of modules maybe less, but try finding a module as powerful as "views"
The possibilities in this are endless. You can build any complex type of listing without writing a single line of code. The possibilities are really endless over here.
 
montsa007 said:
How many themes/plugins does Wordpress have and how many does Drupal have?
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How many of the plugins/themes on Wordpress are free? How many don't have attribution links? How many have free support?
All of the themes and plugins on drupal.org are free, and most support requests are answered, if not by the developer, then by the community.
Sure, installing and updating Drupal and it's plugins isn't as easy as it is on Wordpress, but that's a minor inconvenience.

As to Drupal being limited, I'd say if you can do a 100 things with Wordpress, then you can do 120 with Drupal.

Wordpress is a great system for a single user, who'll add a couple of uncomplicated articles a day. You can do more, but that's not what it's built for.

Drupal lets you have hundreds of users on a site, with fine tuned permissions so that you can have dozens of semi-admins who can perform limited admin duties without breaking the site. It lets you create complicated content types with dozens of fields of different types and output them in way that they look standard, no matter who the content author is.

Drupal may have less themes and plugins than Wordpress, but every theme and plugin has info about how to customise it.
There are only 2 drawbacks that I think it has compared to Wordpress - 1) it's difficult to learn and 2) out of the box it's slower than Wordpress. (but not after tweaking)
 
ch@ts said:
How many of the plugins/themes on Wordpress are free?
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Endless, just have to look at the right places
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How many don't have attribution links? How many have free support?
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Its easy to remove those links, again if you look at the right places, tune in to wp community for support, alternatively there are forums where you can ask questions.

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Wordpress is a great system for a single user, who'll add a couple of uncomplicated articles a day. You can do more, but that's not what it's built for.
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Am not sure if you've seen 'wordpress MU', its brilliant

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Drupal lets you have hundreds of users on a site, with fine tuned permissions so that you can have dozens of semi-admins who can perform limited admin duties without breaking the site. It lets you create complicated content types with dozens of fields of different types and output them in way that they look standard, no matter who the content author is.
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Same thing can be achieved with wordpress, nothing fancy here
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Drupal may have less themes and plugins than Wordpress, but every theme and plugin has info about how to customise it.
There are only 2 drawbacks that I think it has compared to Wordpress - 1) it's difficult to learn and 2) out of the box it's slower than Wordpress. (but not after tweaking)
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Its a personal call.
Picking a ready made easy to build tool vs. raw material
 
I am a casual web developer.
And I have used both WP and Drupal. (I even have sites running in both platforms.)
From my experience, I find WP have the better out-of-the-box features. Hardly takes 10 minutes to setup all.
Drupal indeed requires a bit of learning curve. Things aren't that easy always.
A simple example - the term/module taxonomy in drupal - in WP its simply named category or tags and its done. But Drupal gives lots of flexibility with taxonomy - but one needs to know where and how to look for.
(I'm stating this because, when I started with Drupal, I had searched for the same.)
And yeah, Views is a bloody powerful tool and so does CCK (now integrated) etc.

So in simple term WP is like Windows and Drupal is like Linux - and may be thats why WP usage is much more than Drupal or Joomla.
 
@montsa007

wordpress MU is not what @chats was not talking about that. Even in this case have a look at solutions like ageir for Drupal. I am pretty sure nothing as close to that in WP.
He meant about permissions and stuff in multiple users and content scenarios. And prolly have a look at how fine grained drupal permissions can be.

Infact the reason wy drupal is more flexible is because it concentrates more on the basics like hooks and robust architecture rather than making it a out of the box solution. A lot of custom distributions are available for drupal from drupal.org which do make it a Out of the box solution. The number of hooks it provides. the powerful templating system and the amazing form API and to reiterate my statement the "Views" all make drupal limitless in terms of development.

You are right its a personal call. Agreed!
But the statement "Drupal is limited" is baseless.
You just need to do the right things.

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mathrisk said:
So in simple term WP is like Windows and Drupal is like Linux - and may be thats why WP usage is much more than Drupal or Joomla.
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This line explains it really well.
 
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montsa007 said:
How many themes/plugins does Wordpress have and how many does Drupal have?
Thank you.
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I agree that Drupal don't have lots of free themes and premium themes (paid themes seller).
But Drupal do have lots of powerful modules. Infact Drupal inbuilt core modules are much more than required.

Best part of Drupal, its highly secure script compared to other CMS (my personal opinion).
 
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