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Comparison between WordPress and Drupal

In the content management market, there are three big players. There is a huge competition between WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Among all these, the popularity of WordPress is highest.

For the beginners, WorPress is the best to use. It is completely hassle-free and have the ease to use.

Ease of Use: User-friendly platform is the first preference by any user. If you are not tech-savvy, then it’s not a good choice to choose Drupal. With WordPress, you can start writing within minutes using the WYSIWYG editor. Another beneficial thing with WordPress is it has a brilliant community of passionate people who are willing to solve your queries.

Customizing Options: For customizing the website, themes and plugins are required. WordPress offers 37,000 themes and a wide variety of free premium themes. Through these premium themes, every aspect of your website can be changed.

Security: In terms of security, Drupal is more advanced than WordPress. WordPress has many plugins that can be easily hacked if the user doesn’t have updated to the latest version. While Drupal provides enterprise-level security. In-depth security reports are being generated by the Drupal. Hence, due to it’s top-notch security, Drupal is being used by the Government agencies.

Size Issue: Drupal supports every document. It doesn’t matter whether the write-down is of single page or of thousand pages. The WordPress was created for the blogging purpose. Therefore, it doesn’t has the ability to handle huge volume of content.

Google Preference: Both of the platforms are SEO optimize. But the Drupal platform is specifically created for the SEO purpose. The sites having the Drupal CMS will get load faster and also they have huge capacity to handle the content.

Updates: WordPress updates can be easily upgraded. The coding can be easily altered in the back-end without taking the help of the developer. While, the opposite things happen for the Drupal CMS, the updates are not in the format of coding and therefore for any particular update, the whole website may also need to get redesign. Updating in the Drupal is laborious work and requires the help of an expert developer.

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Multiple Authors: If you are owning a publishing site, then there will be a requirement for multiple authors and editors log-in. Drupal has set-up some standards and at a particular time a number of persons can work on the same article. In the case of WordPress, you need to make special plug-in for doing this work.

Number of Downloads: At present, 140 million people have downloaded WordPress. While the competitor Drupal has only 15 million customers.

Installation Time: The installation time for the WordPress is only five minutes while for the Joomla, the installation process takes up-to ten minutes.

Free Themes: WordPress offers you a wide variety of free and premium themes. Through a number of themes you can change every aspect of your website and make it look highly customized. While the Drupal offers you limited themes and you might look for the designer for making your site beautiful.

For using Drupal, the user must have a comprehensive knowledge on HTML, CSS and PHP. Last but not the least, developing the website on the Drupal is costly as compared to the WordPress.

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