Earlier this month I mentioned on the Platinax forums that I was keeping an Drupal will be the CMS of choice
What Lime.com It is not only set up as a feature-packed online magazine, but also features community involvement. The site features: 1. Today’s Most popular It has everything a CMS should have, and more. More importantly, it delivers a format that I absolutely think every serious website should be following for the future. Familiarity with tapping into the future
My problem as a webmaster is that while Wordpress suits blogs and small sites fine, it simply isn’t geared to community participation - featured author and commentator profile pages are not a default part of the set-up, plus Wordpress has never really integrated community forums. The result is that for my larger sites I often end up with one or more Wordpress installs at the front-end, with a vbulletin community in the centre. The result is a disconnection between the Wordpress content and the community members, with myself having to link to the community to continue discussion, or else face having my vbulletin members sign-up for the Wordpress install to comment. The disconnection is a serious flaw in my publishing strategy, but looking at Drupal, I can see this bridge is gapped by default
Maybe Wordpress will look to address that in future, but my feeling is Matt Mullenweg has decided that Wordpress’s strength is as a blogging tool, and remain focus on that, rather than introduce potential weaknesses and accusations of code bloat. And while vbulletin offers a specialist forum platform, and has recently introduced
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