Drupal vs WordPress

Having blogging features built-in makes it easier to set up a blog. This includes supporting categories, tags, authors, comments, RSS feeds, and multiple ways to display a list of blogs (by category, by date, etc.).

When building a new website, it often makes sense to migrate some of the content from the old site (like blogs, resources, and press releases).

When building a new website, it often makes sense to know what it will cost to run and maintain the CMS. You should consider the cost of programming resources, the number of updates for core and 3rd party modules/plug-ins along with hosting.

What are the efforts needed to deploy a new site or deploy changes to an existing site.

Integration refers to ways to get information in and out of the CMS like APIs and plugins along with integrating with third parties like Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Marketo...

It’s easier to add custom functionality to a CMS that allows itself to be extended. This becomes important when you need to implement functionality that the CMS doesn’t provide.

Sites using managed hosting services from a high quality provider are less likely to experience an outage and less likely to be hacked. It’s important that a CMS has several good options for managed hosting providers that are tuned for the CMS.

Having good performance results in quicker page load time for visitors. A high-performance CMS needs to be scalable so it can generate pages quickly and should also use caching to speed up future visits.

Plugins are useful for adding functionality to a CMS. WordPress calls these “plugins”, and Drupal calls them “modules”. We considered plugin quality as well as how many plugins are available.

A ready-made theme dramatically speeds up development by having several areas and demo pages already done. They can be a good option for websites that have a tight deadline, but they will look slightly more “generic” than custom themes because there are thousands of websites using them.

CMS websites are often attacked by hackers and bots, so it’s important to keep them secure.

Large sites are harder for content authors to manage and can cause performance issues since there is more content in the database. A good CMS for large sites will have features to make managing content easier and be built for scalability.

Sites that support translation and localization are capable of displaying variations of pages for each language or region. This can be important for international companies with customers speaking different languages.

Installing CMS updates is important for keeping the site secure, especially if there are security updates available. A CMS with good upgradeability makes this process quick and easy.

A CMS needs to be easy to use and easy enough to learn for authors and contributors. A CMS with great usability should have an intuitive admin interface that works on any device.

It should be easy for multiple people to work collaboratively on a website. A good CMS needs to support common workflows (like having an author draft content and request an editor to review and publish it), and allow advanced workflows to be configured.