I use Joomla, which I think is up there with Drupal. Guess it depends what you're after. If it's blogging platforms maybe this will be of use: http://url.ie/elv. There's also this: http://url.ie/elw, and http://opensourcecms.com lets you "try before you download" a selection of PHP / MySQL offerings.
I'm with @CiaranR, mostly because that's the order of ease of use I've found in those three. Wordpress is easy, Drupal keeps a certain ease of use while providing more advanced features, and Joomla made me want to cry
This is an older comparison (2005), based on the popularity of open source CMS websites... but might be of interest nonetheless. http://drupal.org/node/18834
Well I've got to vote for WordPress - however, I've no idea how you'd find actual popularity figures.
As far as I can tell WordPress is powering an awful lot of websites out there. There was a statistic somewhere recently, possibly Matt's speech as SXSW or something. There are ways of working it out seeing as all the CMS encourage people to leave the meta name="generator" as part of the head.
I actually use WP quiet a bit but.... but for blogging I think blogger.com is the best platform. Ok is not very cool but it is robust and very practical.The amount of time spent setting up and looking after WP is not worth it. Blogger keeps getting better and there is an increasing amount of things you can do client-side nowadays with AJAX rather than having to rely on php plugins or whatever.
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Drupal pretty popular I think. I use wordpress a lot but never really come to love it. Moodle can be used as a CMS and has good feature set.
1 year, 7 months ago by eam0
I use Joomla, which I think is up there with Drupal. Guess it depends what you're after. If it's blogging platforms maybe this will be of use: http://url.ie/elv. There's also this: http://url.ie/elw, and http://opensourcecms.com lets you "try before you download" a selection of PHP / MySQL offerings.
1 year, 7 months ago by calvin141170
@eam0 @calvin141170 cool. Thanks for the replies.
1 year, 7 months ago by sxoop
i vote wordpress then drupal then joomla
1 year, 7 months ago by CiaranR
I'm with @CiaranR, mostly because that's the order of ease of use I've found in those three. Wordpress is easy, Drupal keeps a certain ease of use while providing more advanced features, and Joomla made me want to cry
1 year, 7 months ago by edythemighty
Anyone played with MODx?
1 year, 7 months ago by Jabit
This is an older comparison (2005), based on the popularity of open source CMS websites... but might be of interest nonetheless. http://drupal.org/node/18834
1 year, 7 months ago by calvin141170
Well I've got to vote for WordPress - however, I've no idea how you'd find actual popularity figures.
As far as I can tell WordPress is powering an awful lot of websites out there. There was a statistic somewhere recently, possibly Matt's speech as SXSW or something. There are ways of working it out seeing as all the CMS encourage people to leave the meta name="generator" as part of the head.
Perhaps @donncha would know?
1 year, 7 months ago by alexleonard
I actually use WP quiet a bit but.... but for blogging I think blogger.com is the best platform. Ok is not very cool but it is robust and very practical.The amount of time spent setting up and looking after WP is not worth it. Blogger keeps getting better and there is an increasing amount of things you can do client-side nowadays with AJAX rather than having to rely on php plugins or whatever.
1 year, 7 months ago by eam0