Bye bye Wordpress!
Mon, 14/05/2007
This site is now running on Drupal! Bye bye Wordpress! It was good while it lasted. But Drupal is more cool, sorry.
I ended up spending weeks working on this because of the steep learning curve for Drupal. Also because I was being indecisive about the features and the designs.
And I didn't follow the mockup in the end too, because I realised I was missing a good many things in the mockup, such as a search box. I might still move things around abit or replace this theme.
And this site is hand-pasted! Yes, every blog post and comments, hand-pasted. No slacking off here.
Sorry about the bugs, if any. Do write me (contact at victoriac.net) and let me know. I'm still trying to tie up the loose ends.
Hope you'll like this... if not, there'll be another theme soon. Hopefully I'll get the user registration stuff tidied up so users can select their own themes soon.
Enjoy!
Xxxx Vic
Thank you all! So far I find
Thank you all!
So far I find the learning curve for Drupal quite steep. I imagine future projects should be less painful. It will be quite painful to customise Wordpress too, if you want to customise it instead of using standard plugins and themes. So in this respect, I suppose they're both equal. Though I have to say I have not really tried seriously theming WP.
Comparing the two, I think Drupal has a more developed and organised community. Queries and issues get addressed and answered quite promptly, and there are many useful documentations and forums.
Also because of this, optional modules created by users are well documented, discussed, maintained and watched by the Drupal community, duplicate functions in modules are less likely to happen. And if there's a problem with the module, it will soon be raised by someone somewhere. In comparison, I find the plugins resources for WP too vast and loosely managed.
I do miss some of the pampering features in WP though. Such as the dashboard, the comments moderation, etc, which all come straight out of the box. In Drupal it would require some setting up. It is not overly complicated, but it's not already there.
Overall WP is great if you want an out of the box blogging system. Drupal is better for more complex features, as it is quite a sophisticated content management system, and not just a blogging tool.
I'm not fully exploiting everything I can do with Drupal on my site yet. I intend to do that sometime.. that's why I'm using Drupal. it's all coming in phase 2, I hope.
I'm quite intrigued by the
I'm quite intrigued by the level of technical detail on your site. Plus you write well!
The site looks great to me.
The site looks great to me. You've got me thinking...
Could you say what you've found so far on Drupal that was impossible or impractical on WordPress?
My experience so far of Drupal is that the development time is necessarily longer than for WordPress, but perhaps that changes once the learning curve is climbed.
Good choice ;)
Good choice ;)