Over the years I have tried various software to manage the content on my personal home page. From hand edited HTML, to a bunch of my own PHP scripts, to some *nuke software, and finally to Drupal.
So why did I finally shift over to WordPress?
The answer is simple – if all you would really be doing on your site is blog … get a blogging software.
The blog module of Drupal is good, but:
- You dont need all that comes along with it – stories, books, modules, block, etc.
- It doesnt have all the latest blog “features” like trackback and pingback.
- Common logic – with a smaller feature-set, it is easier for software to remain stable. No longer feature-bloat.
- No longer updating the site software every 2 months, and more doing what you actually want – blog.
On top of that, WordPress is a highly featured packed piece of software – with multi-levelled user management, support for plugins, etc. The UI is also templateable (even though I still have to go around to customizing it here).
but jsut for the record — what other features come with wordpress? I mean, doe sit have a spellcheck option?
I am using MT 2.64 still and unless I have to get one of those licenses, I think I will keep on using it — unless something out htere is really above and beyond it.
Take a look at the WordPress wiki at http://wiki.wordpress.org. I am sure the spell check plugin (http://wiki.wordpress.org/SpellCheck) would be one of the most sought after here.
Drupal does have trackback: just because the default install does not have something doesn’t mean that there isn’t a module for it:
http://www.drupal.org/project/trackback
You might also want to take a look at Drupal4Bloggers, though many of its features have been integrated back into the upcoming 4.5 release, and in a much cleaner fashion.