Is wordpress for me?

  • Resolved Hsin

    (@hsin)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    Could use some help here. I know this is a support/fansite so the answers might not be 100 percent objective. I am trying to decide between WordPress and Drupal(I’ve ruled out Joomla for the most part) for an upcoming site.

    What I want to do is create a site(idk if blog is the best choice) to review Books I read and create posts about that as well as I want to be able to use it as a sister site to my forum, which is powered by Invision power Board.

    Let me start out by saying….I have NO experience with coding and what not. I am open to learning but i also dont want to spend all my time having to learn how to use something.

    Drupal i hear is for those who have experience with coding and that newbies/beginners such as myself will struggle a lot but the payoff is in the end it is a better experience and more flexible than say wordpress. Also there is not as many free quality themes and plugins compared to say WordPress(which is understandable, wordpress is most popular)

    Also i hear Drupal is quite secure.

    WordPress on the other hand, I dont want to sound like a hipster but I dont like necessarily following trends and just going to something because everyone else uses it. Also i have heard some extreme horror stories about hacked sites and defaced sites about wordpress and that the themes/plug-ins are a lot of the reasons why people get hacked.

    On the other hand, I like the fact that it is so easy to learn for newbies such as myself.

    Here are some examples of what I would like to achieve:
    http://mostlyyabookobsessed.com/
    http://foreveryoungadult.com/
    http://www.yabookscentral.com/

    Not sure what software they use but that is something i want to achieve.

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  • cheesedude

    (@cheesedude)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    “Could use some help here. I know this is a support/fansite so the answers might not be 100 percent objective.”

    WordPress is what it is: an easy-to-use blog publishing and semi-CMS that has plenty of weaknesses and faults when you actually look under the hood at the code but it is a good choice for newbies. How’s that for objective?

    “What I want to do is create a site(idk if blog is the best choice) to review Books I read and create posts about that as well…”

    That is the kind of thing WordPress is intended for. You can literally be up and running in minutes, which is why WordPress is so popular with newbies.

    “Drupal i hear is for those who have experience with coding and that newbies/beginners such as myself will struggle a lot but the payoff is in the end it is a better experience and more flexible than say wordpress.”

    If you have no coding experience, Drupal is completely out of the question for you. If you do have coding experience, Drupal is out of the question for most. Drupal is more of a content management system and is far and above what you need for reviewing books and such (not because it has more features, but because it is pretty bare bones and you have to write custom code to do a lot of basic things).

    “WordPress on the other hand, I dont want to sound like a hipster but I dont like necessarily following trends and just going to something because everyone else uses it.”

    “On the other hand, I like the fact that it is so easy to learn for newbies such as myself.”

    WordPress is intended to do what you want to do and is perfectly suited for it. Drupal is not.

    Mostly Book Obsesses is using WordPress (probably with a custom theme). Forever Young Adult is using an unknown CMS but not WordPress. Ya Books Central is using Joomla, which is another CMS akin to Drupal.

    Thread Starter Hsin

    (@hsin)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks, i appreciate the feedback!

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