Blogging & Content Management Systems — Excellent review of WordPress and Drupal.
For those of you thinking about starting a blog.
Blog Poll from Ecto: Favorite Blog System (2424 Votes) 1. Wordpress 29% 2. MovableType 17% Blog Poll WordPress 1.5. I will write a full review shortly. But, I love WordPress 1.5. Great community, fantastic support and good will, loads of plug-ins and creative CSS templates. Alex King ran a design contest recently and there are some great templates. Kubrick, Blix, Gespaa, Minima Plus (Doug Bowman) and others. The system is also fast. NO rebuild times, WP is developed and based upon PHP and the system is faster and more responsive that MT. The ability to design and implement several great modules is really good. My experiences with WordPress are also positive. This site, Tangent Mobile, is using WordPress 1.5 for example. Now, WordPress is a great blogging system that is a mini-content management system, is open source under GPL. But, WP stops short where you need more advanced features required for larger sites. This is where Drupal (or Mambo and other CMS’s come in). For a full comparison of the 50 or so CMS and Blog systems, see CMS matrix. Also, both Drupal and WordPress have support for enclosures for podcasting.
How’s the spam management on WP? That’s the problem I’ve had with earlier versions.
Spam Management in WP is really good. There is Spam Karma 2, and the Akismet plugin is being release with the core. Akismet is at http://akismet.com/ and is available to all blog software and CMS.
It’s like Microsoft vs. everyone else: not exactly the best in terms of the technical and design aspects, but with 90% plus market share, it’s difficult to match in terms of dominance in the enduser computer market.
In the non-hosted blogging solution sphere (read: host-your-own-blog), WP leads the pack in terms of market share because of the great developer and user community built around it.
I’m using WP on most of my sites, btw.
Cheers.
Angelo
http://jangelo.i.ph
http://jangelo.racoma.net
I am using WP1.5 as a CMS on CafeGeek and it works a treat. I currently have about 90 users and regular contributors to the site with varying degrees of technical competency and overall the system has worked extremel well for me.
The spam control is very good, and the number of plugins available is great too.
It does not replace an real enterprise level CMS by a long stretch, but it does a pretty damn good job for SMEs in terms of web content management.
Yeah, if you add the Bad Behavior plugin, plus the Askimet plugin… you get basically no spam at all.
If you want to cover all the bases WP-Hash Cache is a great javascript solution too.
WP is great for developers. It’s not the most technically brilliant system, but its the easiest to develop for.. and so fix those kind of issues.
Agreed about WP. I haven’t found a better way to publish podcasts either. WordPress ROCKS for podcasting. Painless and free.