Urban Adventures

Isn’t Drupal supposed to be the complicated one?

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So far, in the battle between Drupal and Wordpress, Drupal is definitely winning out.

Installing them was about the same difficulty level (Create database and user, copy files into proper directory, go to page to set up user stats).

What really surprised me, was when I started trying to theme Wordpress. Now, in Drupal when you create a theme, pretty much all of the files are totally optional. If you don’t put a .php file in there to handle a situation, it has a default it falls back on. The only thing really nessecary to customize the look and feel is a stylesheet and a way to figure out what the divs are named.

Wordpress on the other hand, is much more complex. I found myself having to wade deeply into .php files and create new divs just to change the background of an element, or replace a text header with an image. Not to mention attempting to shift the location of any menus requires massive div placement and css editing that will almost certainly break something somewhere else.

Documentation? HAH. I had to spend 15 minutes hunting through google results just to find out that I didn’t need to write the theme entirely from scratch.

I will admit that the posting page is quite nice for wordpress. It’s feature rich, it’s aesthetically pleasing, and it looks pretty much the same as a word processor. However… It is currently 12:06 am.

Before it’s changed to 12:07 am, I was able to find this: http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/10/19/wysiwyg-editor-in-drupal/

and this: http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm

This one fell after the 12:07 mark, because I got sucked into reading some posts on the drupal site: http://civicactions.com/blog/nicedit_a_new_text_editor_for_drupal

Now, out of those three, all were within the first five results on google, and one I was actually linked to by a discussion on the drupal site.

Frankly, I am not impressed. We’ll see how Wordpress holds up in the race.

Edit: I’ve also had to now come back and edit this post, as the url’s did not become clickable as I expected, and I haven’t been able to get my line-spacing to go more than single. Fail.

Edit the second: I’m a bit stupid, I just hadn’t set the <p> tag to the proper spacing in css

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