March 16, 201214 yr I'm just interested to know who uses what CMS and why? Do you prefer open source software or have you developed your own solution?
March 16, 201214 yr WordPress. Used to use Joomla and Drupal occasionally too but both myself and my clients prefer WordPress.
March 16, 201214 yr Author Great to hear some peoples opinions/preferences ... I personally like to use wordpress currently.
March 16, 201214 yr It depends on the complexity of the project and which interface that particular client finds most intuitive. For a web development project Drupal, Wordpress or Modx For e-commerce Prestashop, Magento [or Drupal Commerce/Ubercart] Modx has a nice 'tree' display of site's pages some clients like but involves a lot more custom code than other CMSs (which is fine but for some projects increases the development time over wordpress or drupal) Modx aside I reckon Wordpress is the easiest to use and Drupal is the most extendable (though the api has a large learning curve). Prestashop has a nice graphical interface for clients. Magento over time has grown on me, from a user point of view it has been put together really comprehensively [the backend is something I'm still learning] The best feature Drupal has is its community. I like using Drupal and Prestashop - I always use open source where possible. Edited March 16, 201214 yr by paulb
March 16, 201214 yr Well... Im odd man out. I personally don't like trying to mold Wordpress into every kinda of site I do. My go to CMS has to be Expression Engine. Such a powerful and flexible system. When the client doesn't want to pay, I'm current looking at HeroCMS which is opensource, and 'kinda' similar' to Expression Engine. I only typically only use wordpress if the client's major needs is a blog. I really hate trying to hack wordpress to be a CMS when thats not what it does well (yes people will argue this, but once you use something like EE, you'll see my view).
March 16, 201214 yr I think though, Wordpress has that level of flexibility that makes it suitable for so many different applications. It can be anything, from a basic blog, to an e-commerce website. Course you should always use the best software for the job, but you also gotta take into account how well you know the software.
March 17, 201214 yr Well... Im odd man out. I personally don't like trying to mold Wordpress into every kinda of site I do. My go to CMS has to be Expression Engine. Such a powerful and flexible system. When the client doesn't want to pay, I'm current looking at HeroCMS which is opensource, and 'kinda' similar' to Expression Engine. I only typically only use wordpress if the client's major needs is a blog. I really hate trying to hack wordpress to be a CMS when thats not what it does well (yes people will argue this, but once you use something like EE, you'll see my view). great reply - agree here. B
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