Drupal, Joomla! or WordPress: which CMS should you use?
Which content management system should you use? The short answer is: it depends. This note is not a scientific exploration of each CMS but a summarization of my impressions of each engine, after having used each for production websites. This article is a follow-up to my brief posting back in August.
(You may wonder why I include WordPress — known as a blogging platform — in this article on content management systems. Well. A blog has content. You manage that content through the WordPress system. WordPress has much more power than many blogging platforms. On that basis, I consider it a content management system more than a blogging system.)
My foray into WordPress for personal blogging
I’ve installed WordPress for others. It’s an easy-to-use content management system with functionality that can be extended by a wide range of pre-made plugins. You can use the free, basic version at WordPress.com to make a personal blog, or pay a bit for premium services, or install the open-source version available from WordPress.org. Now I’ve installed WordPress for me, because the best way to learn a system is to use it.
