Drupal and Mura are really intended to be CMS platforms. They are bazookas.
Wordpress is a flyswatter. It's a blog platform that's often extended (plugins) to do CMS(ish) things, but not as heavy as either Mura or Drupal. However the words of caution about security w/WP are valid. -Cameron On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > If you're going to go with ridiculously overweight applications, then > yes use Drupal or Wordpress. Just don't get me started on Drupal. Its > a classic 80-20 solution, but if you need that 20%, its very, very > painful. Poking your eye out with a stick would probably hurt less. > > Just as an aside, the Mura CMS includes a fairly credible blog and is > a CF based solution. > > regards, > larry > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:34 PM, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > WordPress is pretty much the standard these days. It's the Kleenex of > > the blog world. > > > > I like Blogcfc though, mostly because I like CF a whole lot more than I > > like PHP (ugh) > > > > There is also Drupal and Joomla. Something about Drupal irks me and I > > can't put my finger on it. Joomla is a little more linear and > > structured in its design. > > > > I use BlogCFC and Wordpress, and only play around with Joomla. If it > > can be done, there's probably a plugin for it in Wordpress, plus there > > are zillions of free templates for it. Most are boring, but there are a > > few gems to be found. Setup takes a few minutes, but securing it takes > > longer. It is also a PITA to update because the automatic thing never > > works ... for me anyway ... and releases happen regularly enough. > > > > ----- > > "Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence ..." > > Neil Gaiman on Why I write. > > > > On 10/24/2011 1:00 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > >> > >> Now that the holidays and all are over, I'm going to start upgrading > >> things like my blog. Anyone have a suggestion as to which one to use? > >> Pros and cons? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343732 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
