[PHPLondon-discuss] Wordpress

[Douglas Fraser]

nigel.james at xanderjames.com wrote:
> How much love is there for wordpress amoungst you?
> 
> A quick survey:
> 
> Do you use wp?
> 
> Do you use it for more than just a blog? Like a simple cms for example. 
> 

no

> What are reasons for not using if you don't? 
> 
> Do you use another php cms or blogging program?

mambo takes up all my mental bandwidth.  I started out in the cms world 
with typo3 and that was horrible - the docs suck, the interface is 
horrible and it's all in german...  I didn't want to learn a new 
language so the python and ruby based stuff was out...   phpNuke seemed 
too primitive and drupal looked ok, but mambo had more oomph to it 
(modules, user community, real world use)

and then mambo went thru all that trouble....

when joomla 1.5 gets released, I think I will be switching over our 
sites to it.   Knowing what I know now, I'd start out on joomla (or at 
least wait till 1.5 b/c it's a huge jump over 1.0 AFAIK) - the mambo 
code base is a pain (joomla has been reworked), more effort is going 
into joomla / mambo has stalled and I understand the technical issues 
behind CMSs better now, so I think mambo is a little creaky.  I 
understand drupal is supposed to be better designed but I don't much 
like the back end interface.... and it's not as built up as joomla or 
mambo (community etc)

I've never touched wordpress, have looked a bit into serendipity, but w/ 
our sites I need the flexibility to easily develop our own modules and 
the blogish type stuff doesn't have that i think (all blogs seem to use 
the same layout....)


doug