Drupal vs. Wordpress
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I'm working with a site that is built completely in Drupal - including the blog. As we begin on a content strategy initiative the blog is vitally important but lacks core SEO functionality and is cumbersome for the content teams to work with as they have no technical background.
While there will be more work required (moving the blog to a sub-domain or separate URL) to play nice with the broader drupal environment I believe it may be the better choice to move over to Wordpress and port over any existing content worth keeping.
Has anyone encountered a similar scenario or have an opinion on either platform? Love to hear your thoughts both pros and cons.
Thanks in advance.
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There is a vervices which called cms2cms, you could you it to convert your Drupal site to WordPress. I have more my blog www.nootheme.com/blog from Joomla to Wordpress blog.nootheme.com, which is the same Drupal to WordPress. Their service is quite professional.
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We have two sites, one that is set up through WordPress and one through Drupal. Although the Drupal site is older by about six months and has a lot more content etc, the speed and SEO by far out performs that of the WordPress site. Take what you already have and fine tune the site. There are modules for Drupal to help with SEO, it just takes some research and time. The added plus is that working with Drupal (although it will take a bit longer to learn and implement) will make you and your employees more well-rounded!
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I personally like Wordpress, its a lot more flexible, it has more support and you can generally do a lot more with it but the best advice is use the option that you know the best and you can work with the best. No point in having an great service if you don't know how to use it.
To me sounds like Wordpress is the way to go for you, it's got a lot of seo plugins that can help along with good user functions for your content teams to work with out you having to help and thus save you some time in the long run. Regards to DIY Wordpress if it looks like Wordpress your doing it wrong which is why its voted top software for blogs time and time again, many large brands use it but you wouldn't know it
Best of luck with your choice.
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I would keep it in Drupal no matter what. I have found that my Drupal sites have consistently outperformed my Wordpress sites for SEO and speed. Also Wordpress is associated with DIY and it cheapens the image or brand of the company the website represents.
Hope this helps...
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Just the blog would be switching. The level of effort required to move the entire site is far too expensive to even consider (it's a large university site) so sub-folder isn't an option.
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"moving the blog to a sub-domain or separate URL"
Don't do that part, put it in a subfolder maybe.
Will you be switching the entire site over to wordpress or just the blog, it doesn't make much sense to be running 2 CMS.
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Personally i like wordpress, there are so many plugins that you can implement. It is really user friendly and you can changes themes real easily. I hear really great things about drupal as well but i have worked with wordpress and have first hand knowledge. Also with wordpress you can have a designer custom design a layout and develop it using the wordpress platform.
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