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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:49:15 +0000

I’m not going to lie, I have never heard of Drupal. I am building some smaller sites alongside my main site. I use wordpress, I hope I won’t regret this.

I should have done some research first. I was very naive.

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By: Micky

Micky — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:03:47 +0000

Very interesting post & discussion. For a new client, I’ve been trying to decide between using Drupal and WordPress and the comments made above are very useful, although I’m still undecided. Most of the websites I create are for small businesses up to say 25 pages or so. I’m looking for ease of use mostly but of course security is very important too. I’ll have to read a bit more about it. Thanks for the insights provided above though.

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By: Dave L

Dave L — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:49:31 +0000

My point regarding Windows “vs.” WordPress is that Windows is exploited (leaving aside the word “hacked”) even when updated and protected by anti-malware solutions. And staying updated—which isn’t always possible, as Tim points out—is not a 100% secure defense.

By: Jim Mcnelis

Jim Mcnelis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:20:27 +0000

Sounds and reads like a recommendation to me.

Your article suggests that there are better options out there than WordPress. You mention Drupal. Even without explicitly saying Drupal is better than WordPress, the article and comments suggest this fact. I doubt I am the only one to walk away form this article with this impression.

It’s a great article for what it’s worth, I just disagree with your conclusion:

I really like WordPress but I do not recommend it to my commercial clients we simply do not think it is compatible with modern IT solutions and until the development team leave the Update or Die philosophy it will stay inappropriate and will lose out to mature systems such as Drupal.”

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:52:57 +0000

Jim I think you should reread the article and comments as at no point did I ever recommend Drupal over WordPress I did say Drupal has a more mature approach which from an IT point of view probably makes it a more likely choice.

What I did recommend was WordPress developers to adopt a similar mentality to that of Drupal/Plone both of which are open source application and of which have both patches and upgrades, lifecycles and indeed some basic roadmap as to the future. Indeed to quote myself from the article…

Drupal is not more any more secure indeed there are more security bulletins for it then WordPress but it has a patch and upgrade path which provides support for earlier versions in the form of security patches.

By: Jim Mcnelis

Jim Mcnelis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:17:16 +0000

My point was that the most popular and most used OS, Windows, is ‘hacked’ (for the purposes of this article) daily.

If you don’t update, you are likely to be exploited, much like a older version of WordPress.

I guess the real issue I have with your argument Tim is that you are recommending another open-source solution with probably just as many vulnerabilities.

It would be altogether different if you were recommending the Mac OSX equivalent of a blogging platform, but I don’t think Drupal is it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=drupal+vulnerabilities&spell=1

By: Dave L

Dave L — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:27:01 +0000

True! While my primary business is supporting Windows, it’s getting easier and easier to recommend Mac to new users who mostly seem eventually to one day screw up their malware protections one way or another. (Been recommending Firefox for some time for similar reasons, though you always have to have IE for some sites.)

Many PCs and business networks are infected and don’t know it. Here, there IS a lot of data. A favorite example:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/071707-government-contractors-hit-in-targeted.html

Knowing how strongly Windows is protected by most enterprises, seeing that they are being badly hit makes me think WordPress is worse than most realize. Pure speculation, but I think a valid concern.