At Digimad we mostly use Wordpress Ecommerce for all of the online shops that we have created because this is generally the CMS system that everyone knows but recently I have heard a lot about Drupal. I was thinking we could give it a go but im really not sure. Is there anything that Drupal can offer that wpecommerce cant? Is there any point in learning Drupal? Especially if were not going to gain anything from it.

 

Thanks

Edited September 17, 201312 yr by teodora
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Drupal is good as long as you know what modules you want, unlike WordPress where you get a WYSIWYG editor and image uploading systems etc built-in you have to install a lot of modules from the community to get these things working and some times it can be a lot of pain for some if you want something that can quickly be enabled straight out of the box.

 

Recently our team found SilverStripe CMS (http://www.silverstripe.org/) and this is a very nice CMS to work with and code for.. Also they have most basic modules included in the core script and there are modules by the community that are both free or paid that you can install.

 

Hope this helps but I am sure a full time Drupal developer will be able to shed some more light on Drupal

Thanks for the reply hostmedia, am I right in thinking Drupal sounds more like a developers toolbox? I mostly centre my work around styling and plugins so I think we are probably better off with Wordress, although lately we have been using a bit more of Woocommerce which is quite nice, although not as easy to style as WP-eCommerce.

Thanks for the reply hostmedia, am I right in thinking Drupal sounds more like a developers toolbox? I mostly centre my work around styling and plugins so I think we are probably better off with Wordress, although lately we have been using a bit more of Woocommerce which is quite nice, although not as easy to style as WP-eCommerce.

 

Personally I see a lot of PHP developers working with it and when you have issues due to your most basic of plugins/modules no longer working with your updated Drupal then you can be stuck.

 

It is always best to go with what you know best and then build your skills up in things if you are able too but when it comes to clients websites if it goes wrong and you have no idea on how to fix someone else's module/plugin then it won't look good.

 

Hope this helps Give us a shout if you have anything you need help with.

Personally, I do not think Drupal is an ideal solution for ecommerce, Drupal is most used for content site, although it can be used a shopping cart system, but it is not recommended to. WordPress is suitable for small business with less than 500 products. Zencart, Opencart and Magento are pretty nice options for medium-to-large corporations.

Edited October 18, 201312 yr by themeninja007

Have had experience with both - have to admit wordpress is easier!

Sorry for the delay in jumping in on this one so late. I am a Drupal developer, I have of course built sites in wordpress but I do find for more complex sites wordpress is quite limited. I agree that Drupal has a longer learning curve than wordpress. If one is to consider using Drupal you must start off with a framework mindset, focusing on what you can build with it rather than focusing on what you can do with it.

 

 

Drupal is good as long as you know what modules you want, unlike WordPress where you get a WYSIWYG editor and image uploading systems etc built-in you have to install a lot of modules from the community to get these things working and some times it can be a lot of pain for some if you want something that can quickly be enabled straight out of the box.

 

As of Drupal 7 image support is in core and from the up coming Drupal 8, the wysiwyg editor and many more features like the powerful views module will be in core (out of the box)

 

 

Personally, I do not think Drupal is an ideal solution for ecommerce, Drupal is most used for content site, although it can be used a shopping cart system, but it is not recommended to. WordPress is suitable for small business with less than 500 products. Zencart, Opencart and Magento are pretty nice options for medium-to-large corporations.

 

I could not disagree more, check out Drupal commerce showcase: http://www.drupalcommerce.org/showcase - there is also a kickstart Drupal commerce distribution which can help with build time for new developers - https://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart

 

Hope this helps

Edited November 13, 201312 yr by mylocaltrades

Drupal is a nice CMS builder for E-commerce website design.

And WordPress is wonderful for all kinds of website.

If you want to make an E-commerce site with WordPress, the only thing you need is a free corporate wordpress theme.

Edited December 23, 201312 yr by teodora

Hi,

 

Drupal is a content management framework. It is perfectly possible to use it for ecommerce and drupal commerce / ubercart work fine. However the learning curve with drupal makes it more difficult to learn. Having used wordpress for other things and having organised the porting of a Wordpress site to Magento when it was outgrown i would suggest wordpress is fine for small sites but for larger sites things like magento are going to be better, although that system also has some issues.

 

In your case if your happy with Wordpress i'd stay with it, or if you move on look at Magento.

 

Rob