The first-ever CMS I decided to develop was actually built on WordPress. At the time, I felt Joomla and Drupal were too complicated to setup (and if it was already complicated enough for me, I could only imagine how frustrating it would be for the website administrator).
Several years later (now) I have built a good number of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal sites. I used to like Drupal the best…until one day I installed a module and the database was corrupted…this caused some delay. How something like that happens while installing third-party modules, I’ll never know.
When I build CMS sites for others, I will always choose Drupal or Joomla. Interesting enough though, when I develop sites for myself I will choose WordPress. The real reason is because Drupal and Joomla are instant CMS software while WordPress starts as a blog and you have to set it up as a CMS by adding plugins, etc. It is AMAZING what one can achieve using WordPress. The great thing about how it works is that if the third-party plugin is problematic, all you have to do is delete it out of the wp-content/plugins folder and everything goes back to the way it was before the plugin. Can things get any easier?
To this date, I’ve never experienced database corruption with WordPress.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe Drupal and Joomla are great. To compare both’s core software (without extensions) I would go with Drupal because it’s a more “complete” content management sytem.
But overall, WordPress is just as solid as it gets and the most user-friendly. Not to forget it’s extremely SEO-friendly too.
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