“Demand
and supply are just like two sides of a coin. To fulfil the demand of
the user there must be enough resource so as to meet the expectations of
the industry. If you are not able to meet the ever changing demands of
the industry then you couldn’t sustain in the market. Similarly
technology should be always up to date so as to provide optimum service
to the developer and hence the end user. Every technology strives to
remain in the industry with newer and advanced features and to serve the
industry in a meaningful manner. Content management system is one such
platform that provides enough scope for the developers in developing
enterprise quality web applications. It definitely reduces the effort of
the developer due to its in built systematic architecture and hence
increases the productivity of the software developer. Drupal and
WordPress are two magnificent CMS software available in the industry to
serve in an efficient manner. But, nothing is perfect in this
materialistic universe and so the case for these CMSs as well. Let us
discuss their advantages and disadvantages and usefulness from the
developer’s point of view”.
Ease of Use:
For CMS software, user interface plays an important role as a deciding
factor. User interface is something that makes sense when we think about
ease of use and easy to learn character of the software. The popularity
of WordPress is around ten times than that of Drupal considering the
fact that the population of WordPress user is ten times more than that
of Drupal. This is due to simple user interface and easy to learn
approach of WordPress CMS. But the case is different with Drupal; though
it is efficient enough to handle complicated web applications but it
needs more effort and time from the Drupal developers to learn and
integrate all the components of the CMS whereas WYSIWYG editor of
WordPress is much more user friendly to provide better accesses for the
WordPress developer. In fact WordPress releases upgrades every three
four months without creating any annoying experience for the developer
whereas Drupal upgrades need effort from the developer to handle the
code changes of the newer version.
Scalability:
Scalability is something that enables the web developer in crafting
enhanced web applications from scratch with less effort and with more
efficiency. There are many options available in a CMS platform that
extends the features of a web application like integration of advanced
themes, templates, plug-ins and components etc. Again the ease of
integration of these features matters a lot from the developer’s point
of view. WordPress provides sufficient room for the developer to
integrate better themes, plug-ins and components etc from a repository
of millions of contributions of the industry whereas Drupal developers
may not find enough open source templates and plug-ins for their
application. But if we consider about the quality of customisation then
the clear winner will be Drupal because of its highly optimised
Architecture that enables the Drupal developer in building high
performance web applications; but at the cost of effort and expertise
from the developer. In short we can say the customisation features of
WordPress are better for moderate standard web applications whereas
Drupal is consistent enough for big content web solutions.
Security features:
Undoubtedly the security standards of Drupal are par ahead of WordPress
due to its highly optimised design pattern. A Drupal application is
extremely secure and hence can be used confidently for any big data
application. On the contrary WordPress is little loose from its score
and hence it can’t be a trusted one for data driven application. Again
due to larger community of WordPress, hackers love to show their talent
in the bigger canvas. Hence the security threat is more for a WordPress
website than that of a Drupal.
Search Engine Optimization: Search
Engine Optimization is one of the most important features of every CMS.
There are many third party SEO tools or plug-ins available in the
industry along with the inbuilt SEO tools. There are more number of
advanced SEO tools and plug-ins available in WordPress platform than
that of Drupal. On the contrary, Drupal platform has less number of SEO
tools available in the industry but due to its default caching features,
it forces Google to give priority for a faster Drupal website. Again
Drupal can handle larger volume of content without any hassle and hence
it makes a lot sense when we think about search engine optimisation. So
it is like a tie between both the platforms from two different angles.
Performance:
It is needless to say that the performance of an optimised platform is
always better than that of a loosely coupled platform and hence Drupal
performs outstanding in the industry. Drupal is having a tremendous
popularity in the industry as a tough yet powerful CMS and it enables
the developer in building enterprise quality high performance web
applications.
Futuristic i.e. Responsiveness and mobile platform support: Industry
has understood the importance of responsive web design in building a
larger audience community for its business. It can be well achieved with
the introduction of smart apps and web apps for different platforms
like Android, IOS and windows operating system. Fortunately both Drupal
and WordPress provides enough scope for the developer in designing
responsive web applications through dedicated mobile theme for their
application. WPTouch is one such WordPress mobile theme for responsive
web design. It is already revealed that building a responsive web
application with WordPress is much easier than that of Drupal platform.
Again WordPress handles both the desktop web application as well as
mobile web application in a better way so that your website can be well
visible on the search engine. In fact WordPress provides real time
content editing feature on mobile and it is extremely helpful for
updating your blog in real time and it can be done from a native mobile
app itself.
And the Winner is:
Both the CMSs are having some advantages and disadvantages with respect
to different prospective. WordPress is better for a medium volume
content application where as Drupal is powerful enough to handle any
complex application. WordPress doesn’t require much learning and
expertise from a developer whereas Drupal needs it from the very
beginning. Drupal is highly secure and stable platform but WordPress is
extremely simple and flexible. So we can say Drupal is best platform for
complex applications whereas WordPress is a simple platform for quick
web building that doesn’t require much expertise from the developer.
We, at Mindfire Solutions, are equally competent in WordPress and Drupal. If you have any custom WordPress plugin development requirements, or need the help of our senior WordPress programmers: please feel free to give a shout to us any time and we will be replying back within one business day.
