Drupal VS Joomla VS Wordpress - Which Is The Best CMS?

Hi,
Thank you for your helpful matrix. I have been attacked twice by a hacker at my Joomla site. Each time I have had to delete everything and start over. I starting to feel that I can't use Joomla unless I can pay big bucks to someone to constantly monitor (and defend against) security threats.

I was wondering if you would comment on this? Is it more likely that someone has just taken aim at my site? or might it have to do with Joomla not being as secure?

also, What do people do when their sites are attacked by people who turn them into virus pumping machines? I've had web sites for 3 years but have never encountered this until I started using Joomla.

Thank you for the great comparison! I'm using Drupal on my first site now, but I am volunteering for a nonprofit that wants to upgrade their site, and this is very helpful in deciding which CMS to use!

I see many "No" regarding the features in Wordpress. Please study in depth before publishing such post. With Wordpress we can do anything that can be done with Drupal or Joomla, and with more ease.

Would like to know the date of your review and the versions of the software you are reviewing.

The hardest part for me, as a hand-coder, non-programmer, beginner was getting copies of the drupal/wordpress/joomla programs installed on my home computer so I could buy some books and try them out and learn how they worked before I took them live to the Web.

That was a lot harder than I thought, and where a lot of other people, I'm sure, get stuck.

So to help everyone out I wrote down the steps to install drupal on your home computer:
http://drupal.org/node/749846

Feel free to add your own comments to my instructions, and add any explainations you think would help.

Great detailed evaluation. I've used all three myself and summarised when I would use each of these on my blog Drupal vs Joomla vs WordPress Comparison. I pretty much agree that Drupal has the best wide use and WordPress is great for blogging, but I also think that Joomla has it's place. I had one project where Joomla was pretty much the only option because of some modules that it had like JEvents and Docman. You could do the same in Drupal but with a lot more pain.

I think as you said, Durpal & Wordpress are the best mainly because of the SEO part,
However i keep reading online that wordpress requires tons of plugins for it to be SEO friendly (ranging from URLs,Page...etc) which makes me belive in this case the Durpal is the best then.

Anyways i want to ask is LiveJournal uses any CMS or it is itself is CMS? because i like it and would be great to see it on this comparision table.

Mike J.

That's exactly right. I had to think about what you meant by "If you have to work hard to post, you won't" and then I realized that the truth in it. If I can't figure out how to do something quickly, it will become more of a hassle than its worth.

There's actually a new plugin for Wordpress and Joomla that allows owners to combine the two. It's put out by corephp and seems to be very promising for those people who want to have the blogging capabilities of Wordpress with the flexibility of Joomla.

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Thanks for posting this. I still like wordpress the best but I'll have to take a gander at Drupal, just to know how to do it.

Thanks again.

Dreamweaver is a decent program, but it is fundamentally a design program and not a content program. If an organization has someone who is experienced using it and you aren't trying to maintain more than a dozen pages, it probably would make sense to use it. However, it is not setup for people who just need to modify the content to their website as it is a complicated application that takes sustained time and effort to use correctly. Most organizations would benefit from separating content and design, as they are different skill sets.

Has the the authur checked out Wordpress MU?

Thanks for posting this. I still like wordpress the best but I'll have to take a gander at Drupal, just to know how to do it.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the chart. I've never seen a better one. Everything is so clear, besides, you've touched nearly all the points. As for me, I prefer Wordpress. You don't have to be a developer to deal with it. It is pretty easy and that is the most important fact for the majority of people. I've found interesting video: Wordpress vs joomla and drupal a> There are some more points why I prefer wordpress in it.

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Genuinely good and informative post, thank you so much for sharing this great stuff with us.these are all blogging application, but joomla is one of the best application for create the blogs or webpage.

I have used joomla on a number of sites and it does integrate video easily. There are plenty of of 3rd party extensions that allow you to play multiple formats 'out of the box'.

In short, both Drupal,Wordpress, Jhoomla are popular among users.

When talking about the best CMS I think they all have their special key features for the betterment. I mean there are some features that is good in wordpress but not in Drupal or Joomla, and similarly vice versa. So it is better to choose what kind of site is suitable with which CMS. When going for my personal view, I think Wordpress is taking good pace in the market due to it's features and also so called Search Engine Friendliness or SEO friendly website. I do use Wordpress for creating blog but I used Drupal for creating local directory listing website enhancing the good feature within them.

Wow! What a blog! I like the way each of the CMSs have been measured according to various categories. All three of the CMSs have their own pros and cons. So we cannot say with credence that any one of these is the best of the lot.

I find drupal and joomla is very great and i think wordpress seems good .i will check out wordpress also.

I use WordPress and the Wordpress Themes for almost five years and must say I’ve not found a better platform for building and managing a website. Doesn’t matter whether you’re blogging, have a store front, create a massive business site or need a basic, static website to promote your services and products – WordPress can manage it all.
And te themes are not only good for personal use, but also for your clients, makes it easier to customize to there style.

This is a complete and clear comparison of most powerful content management system but i really like SSL service of drupal. Thanks for this awesome post.

Many say Wordpress is the best, but I had been using and working on Drupal from a long time and I would suggest Drupal for others too.

Some of my friends too use Drupal based on my suggestion and they are satisfied.

I think that everybody should go for Wordpress because its a very easy to use and a optimized blogging platform for bloggers. It would help to post content easily and edit all thing manually (It's very fast than other sites).

I still choose wordpress 100% because I try drupal and joomla but their plugins are limited even templates while worpdress there are too many themes and plugins you can use for free.