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WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

x something, and a developer and user of Drupal since 4.7, I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. A caveat: I have more experience, especially with larger sites, in Drupal than in WordPress, so there are things that I may be missing. Community Blogs.

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Drupal gets a “Solid&# on Scalability and security.

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Salesforce as a CMS?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve already talked on this blog about Salesforce integration with Drupal , Plone , and others. Tags: CMS CRM Nonprofit Tech salesforce. Salesforce is a very powerful platform onto which one can build a large variety of interesting kinds of custom applications. First, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

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Report Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone

Tech Soup

Our pals over at Idealware have just released a pretty comprehensive report comparing some open source content managment giants — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. Tags: Databases Open Source Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Want to know if these types of systems are right for you? Tools Web 2.0

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12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change

Tech Soup

If you use an open-source CMS, such as Drupal or WordPress, there are themes or widgets that allow you to do this without making major changes. Think about that in comparison to your email open rates. Use responsive design. Responsive design makes your website display differently depending on what kind of device is used to access it.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The open source options are many, but the big four: WordPress , Drupal , Joomla , and Plone , stand out from the pack. As you know, I am pretty loyal to Drupal (and secondarily, WordPress) but I have to say that Joomla and Plone are solid, wonderful projects, with great communities, and active development, and will serve you well.

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No more custom CMS!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In fact, even if you just focus on the “big three&# open source CMS – Drupal, Joomla and Plone, 85% of nonprofits will likely have their needs fully met. Most custom CMS that I’ve seen lately are sorely lacking in features and/or usability, in comparison to what’s out there, and available. 2 admin 02.20.08

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