Wordpress and Drupal

I played with Drupal and Wordpress for a while, and am seriously considering moving to Drupal. To single users, Wordpress is easier to use but Drupal is more flexible. 

Post sorting

Wordpress can only list posts in reverse chronicle order. Drupal has other ways. For example, its book module is something that Wordpress does not have.

Humanized url

In Wordpress, humanized urls are added automatically. In Drupal, users need to manually type in humanized url for each post.

Themes

Both have many, but Wordpress seems to have more.

Drupal’s themes are more customizable. Users can set different themes for different views. The contents in the header and the footer can be set in administrative panel. Wordpress users have to hard code for the header and the footer.

Category list

It is the basic feature of Wordpress. In Drupal you need to find some php code to do that.

WYSIWYG editor

Worpress comes with a rich text editor TinyMCE. Drupal needs to download and install separately, but Drupal have a range of editors to choose from.

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About “Category list”:
Drupal has very powerful feature called taxonomy. It doesn’t require additional PHP, and can provide simple categories, multiple categories …

I didn’t say it clearly. Taxonomy is as powerful as, if not more powerful than, wordpress’ category. But for a blog, listing category terms on the side bar is a basic function, which could be easily done in wordpress. Drupal requires a few more steps.

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