Ok, so I’ve read quiet a bit of Drupal Vs Wordpress articles and I think what it comes down to is what you want to use it for, BUT also personal preference.

LOVE AND HATE Drupal:
Why I love and hate Drupal? I really do love it that there’s so much you can do with it. With CCK (content Construction Kit) and Views, you can almost do anything and you don’t even need to know how to program in PHP. There are blocks you can move around and QuickTabs modules that let’s you add tabs with content…really easy once you get the hang of that! I mean I tried it years ago and it didn’t even have CCK and Views and yes I did abandon it then. But I came back and was starting to love it, HOWEVER, for the past few days, I’ve been a little frustrated with Drupal. I started to try out Drupal 6 and really like all the jQuery and easy to move things and reorder things with drag and drop. Then I came to one module. The FileField module - it requires PHP 5.2. Ok, so I know a lot of open source people are pushing for PHP 5.2+, but my server only supports PHP 5.1.6 and it’s not that easy to just ask them to upgrade it since it deals with Plesk and Redhad and CentOS or whatever more. Urrghhh. So yeah, I feel like I’m stuck OR I have to downgrade and go back to using Drupal 5. OH wait…the new v5 FileField for CCK also requires PHP 5.2. (I’m going to scream my head off).

So you get the idea. I love Drupal for what it can do and really is good for “community” type of sites, but you can get stuck because of one module and if you are not a coder and just hack around things, then it can be difficult.

With Wordpress, it is easy to use and yes the UI is easier to use as well. My husband tried Drupal - not even installing and all that….just using it to post things and him and a colleague of his HATED IT!! He said something about the UI and just everything hahaha. The point is, he gave up. I don’t blame him. I gave up before too, but I did come back to it and I hope I don’t have to give up on it again!

Wordpress in my opinion is good if you are just running a blog or community blog. It seem to be good with SEO just out of the box. BUT if you want anything more than that like user interaction type of community site, then Drupal will be better.

Yeah, I don’t know. I think I just need to step away…and get a banana split!

The new version of wordpress (2.2) has been out for over a week now and I’ve upgraded one blog with no problem. I will likely upgrade this one soon when I have the time…maybe today…maybe next month, whenever!

This newest version of wordpress has added goodies that includes widgets (see it in action here), full atom support, blogger importer, infinite comment stream, speed optimizations, WYSIWYG support (for future version of Safari - which is great because Safari is my favority browser even though some sites don’t work well on it) AND the best thing is that this new version will protect you from activating any plugin or editing a file that may mess up your blog.

The plugin protection is great since I hate having to reinstall the whole site even though you have backups. 5 minutes of time spent on fixing a messed up blog is 5 minutes of precious time wasted.

If you’ve checked out the way the widget works from n.design and actually like to use it, you can stop by the wp-themes section and download it!

There are lots of social bookmarking site out there and the more you allow your users to add your post to one of them, the more chances of receiving more audience. If you run a wordpress blog, having the ability for users to add your post to one of their social bookmarking sites with just a click will be very useful.

Sociable is a plugin for Wordpress from Peter Harkins of push.cx. It has a big list of built in social bookmark site (including digg, reddit, del.icio.us, furl and lots more) and all you have to do is put it in your plugin folder, activate it, then select the social bookmark sites you want to display. It’s as easy as that.

BTW - I also like his tagline “A tea-drinking web geek’s coffee-flavored blog” for his site!