Comments on: Worth Giving Another Tool a Try?

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:27:48 +0000

What about Drupal? Pretty powerful and great community too.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:13:37 +0000

Tumblr – ok, it’s not a downloadable blogging tool but it is kind of cool for miniblogging.

By: Han

Han — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:12:00 +0000

I’ve had this thought many times and in the end it comes down to what I know and the huge fanbase and resources available for wordpress that’ll make it do what ever you want!

Theres typepad, textpattern, moveable type, expression engine, I’m not sure if B2 is still going not greymatter *shudders* and theres always the non standards compliant cutenews as well as joomla, drupal and habari! (I’ve looked into it a lot lol – as well as hosted solutions – blogger came out as the best just on grounds on customisability)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:21:19 +0000

Textpattern, Joomla, Mephisto.

By: franky

franky — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:22:22 +0000

I support EE. It is a lot more complete than WP and the DB queries are much more optimized. Double license tho.

Joomla also rocks, one can really do anything with Joomla. It’s a further developed fork of Mambo, but rather a heavy weight CMS.

By: Noel Hurtley

Noel Hurtley — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:49:51 +0000

I second Yannick. Textpattern is flexible, lightweight and open source platform.

By: Yannick

Yannick — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:43 +0000

Give Textpattern a try.

By: Chris Baskind

Chris Baskind — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:37:06 +0000

We use Joomla at LighterFootstep.com. Like any CMS, there’s a short learning curve — but it’s scary powerful. You can do *anything* to your front page in minutes. Huge community, good support, superior template selection.

Joomla is between versions right now and our installation depends on some 3rd party add-ons to make it modern (comments, nice URLs, etc). Joomla 1.5 will address these. In the meantime, WordPress users might enjoy trying Drupal. Look Joomla, you’ll have to learn new vocabulary. But Drupal has much of what WordPress users would expect from a turnkey installation.

Speaking of installation — both these CMS platforms are as easy to get running as WP.

They rock. Promise.

By: garrett

garrett — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:57:40 +0000

Expression Engine! it’s not quite as easy to setup as WordPress but it’s so much more flexible and the out-of-the-box functionality is insane. WordPress may be quick, but EE is powerful…