Drupal VS Joomla VS Wordpress - Which Is The Best CMS?

  Drupal Joomla Wordpress Homepage http://www.drupal.org http://www.joomla.com http://www.wordpress.org Example Sites Installation Fairly easy, but requires a bit of technical stuff (will be much easier with version 6) Piece of cake A walk in the park Ease of use Not for the casual user. Drupal is usually more oriented towards developers and webmasters, although it is becoming more and more user friendly with each new version. Fairly easy and straightforward. Very easy to use. Pretty much anybody can use this. Administration Lots of control, but a bit confusing for the newbie Very graphical and intuitive! Very easy to administer the site Themes Decent, but lacking when compared to Joomla and Wordpress Good selection of themes Excellent, large theme selection! Comments Yes Yes Yes SEO

• Fantastic! Title tags match your article title and clean URLs are easy to add.
• Content is categorized nicely and eveything is listed as a preview and also has a permalink.

• Requires OpenSEF or SEO extension.
• May offer security risks due to SEO changes

Fantastic! - All content has a unique page with an SEO friendly Title and URL. Users Yes - Full user accounts and profiles can be set up. Users can log in and set preferences and settings. Yes Yes, can have multiple users Blogs A bit more cumbersome for blogging, but still has many blogging features and modules. Also, great for allowing more than 1 blog. Yes, you can create blogs easily with Joomla By far the best blogging software. Has support for many blogging features and plugins. RSS Feeds Yes, everything has a feed   Yes, made for RSS! Forums Decent, functional forum, but it doesn't have a traditional type of forum look and feel. It requires heavy theming to get it to feel right SimpleMachines integrates in very well. Yes Ecommerce Contributed ecommerce modules that are dencent, but a bit cumbersome Yes, as extensions Joomla offers ecommerce Yes, with plugins Video Full support for conventional video (.mov, .avi, .mpg) and Flash video (.flv) conversion via FFMPEG. Users can upload videos. No, unless embed YouTube videos No, unless embed YouTube videos Audio Full audio support for uploading of MP3s by users with audio module. Yes, with multimedia extensions Yes Photo Galleries Decent looking photo galleries with the use of the Image module. Gallery extensions allow for image galleries Yes Calendars Decent events and calendars, although they could definitely be improved on.   Yes Web 2.0 Yes! Pure! No, it still has the older content driven aspects and less community focus. Yes, very web 2.0! Permissions Yes, very granular permissions allow for precise control over certain features for each user Lacking Yes Scalability Great for adding new sections and elements to a site. It is very easy to build off the existing codebase. Decent Scalabily Limited scalabilty - much harder to add new sections and elements. Multisite Yes, full multisite integration out of the box! No Yes Categorization Complete control over categorization of content. Can sort and order content virtually any way. Super easy to create pages listing whatever you want. Limiting, only allows for section/category/content structure. Very good categorization via categories and tags Documentation Good documentation with lots of user submitted guides and tutorials. The forums are very friendly with helpful users. Decent, but a bit sparse on certain topics. Large community with lots of active contributors. Good documentation over all important aspects of the system. SSL Yes - SSL is all built in and pretty much transparent. Yes, requires some programming No Standards Yes sir! Close, but not exactly Full standards compliance Learning Curve By far the hardest learning curve. Easier to wrap your head around if you are a developer. Pretty easy learning curve. Lots of features, but pretty easy to follow. Fast and easy! Speed Very efficient, but page loads can take a bit longer as it can be common for many queries to happen with modules and features. Very fast with rendering pages. Can also slow down when features are added. Fast, pages render quickly and efficiently. Theming Complete control over all aspects of HTML. Hard to get used to, but fairly straight-forward once learned. Control over most aspects of the theme, although certain parts are injected in that can not be themed or tweaked. Changes on certain parts of the site may break other parts of the site and theming in general is a lot more buggy. Control over most aspects of HTML. Anti-Spam Features Lots of modules, features and captchas for removing and preventing spam Extensions that help prevent spam Lots of spam features Features Tons of features for blogging, communities, social networking, content management and everything you could ever want for a web site. A lot of good features, but lacking in social and user oriented areas. A lot of blogging features, but not many site features. My opinion My CMS of choice. Great for any type of website and very easy to build off. The Drupal community is very driven and has a great vision of where to take Drupal. Very good for brochure type sites. I guess you could say it is less powerfull than Drupal, but more powerful than Wordpress. It doesn't offer complete control on things which I don't particularily like. It is also hard to build off and is kind of more of a web 1.0 system and not web 2.0. If all I had was a blog and I wasn't too good at programming I would use this for sure. By far the best blogging software and still very good for smaller sites without a user base. Stability Rock solid, although be careful when adding modules, things can go downhill very quickly. Also avoid hacking core code. Very stable. Extremely stable. Database

• MySQL
• PostgresSQL

MySQL MySQL Security Great Good Great Programming Language PHP PHP PHP WYSIWYG Editor Yes, but not seamlessly integrated Yes Yes, great integration Page Caching Yes Yes   Integrated Statistics Yes Yes Yes Download Size 728kb 878kb 802kb Sitewide Search Yes Yes Yes