Comments on: Choose your CMS: WordPress or Drupal?

By: Digital Utopia » Finding a WordPress theme for news

Digital Utopia » Finding a WordPress theme for news — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:26:04 +0000

[...] step: finding a newsy template. There have already been some discussions about open-source CMS options and, specifically, WordPress templates for news portals, but [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:20:01 +0000

Does Joomla! offer any news-application related apps?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:49:06 +0000

We use WordPress for http://www.chroniclet.com and for wp2.medina-gazette.com. We have had problems with WordPress handling the amount of traffic and have resorted to using hocus-pocus methods with cache and RAM. I was starting to look at django and drupal as possible alternatives to WordPress - anybody have issues with high traffic using either?
Thanks.

By: Teaching Online Journalism » WordPress as your Web authoring tool

Teaching Online Journalism » WordPress as your Web authoring tool — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:32:29 +0000

[...] you’re wondering why I am touting WordPress and not Drupal or Django, read this earlier post. People I respect hugely (such as Matt Waite) swear by Django. If you want to totally roll your own [...]

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:40:03 +0000

I have to differ on the Collegian site — strikes me as a classic do-too-much on the home page site. You don’t know where to begin to look.

I am surprised, though, that Wordpress can create something like that.

By: Drew Geraets

Drew Geraets — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:05:12 +0000

We’re doing our best impression of a CMS with Wordpress with the NYCity News Service. I love it for getting projects up and running same-day. Hopefully custom fields will become more powerful/manageable things in the next versions of WP.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:38:50 +0000

Why choose between WordPress and Drupal when you can have both together?

By: António Granado

António Granado — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:37:05 +0000

Hi Mindy,

Some more examples:

The Best WordPress Magazine Themes Available.

By: Bryan Murley

Bryan Murley — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:42:30 +0000

Have been impressed by the Collegian’s use of WordPress, and InsideVandy.com uses Drupal. I’ve also used Textpattern and Movable Type. Since Movable Type is going back to an “open-source/free” model, it might be worth looking into. I like what I’ve seen of expressionengine, which runs the speakeasy online mag at Ohio U., for example.

All that said, I found Drupal very difficult to deal with as a new user. Not so much my experience with most of the others.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:33:25 +0000

Matt: I bet we share our definition of pretty and young. My point was that WordPress has a visible face in the PR sense.

Derek: Dean Allen may not be a news guy, but his sense for how to structure a CMS for news use was right on (I was a reader of his old blog long before I was a user of Textpattern). Among my “clients” are a couple of broadcast news directors that one would hardly call “web saavy.” I set up Textpattern sites for them and they just “got” it right off the bat.