Both WordPress and Drupal have strong followers, and they rarely agree on what platform is more suitable for various projects. If you’re a user of one of these platforms, maybe you should eye the other? Check out the comparison over at Performancing for a great start.
I’ve just done minor work with Drupal, so I don’t know the system very well. I found it somewhat bulky though, not Joomla bulky, but still bulky compared to more focused solutions.
Good news for bbPress users, 0.9 is out and it features integration with WordPress 2.5. There are a bunch of news in this release as well, although most fixes and fine-tunings. Read more about that here, and nab the 0.9 version here.
That’s the good part. The bad part is that current bbPress users will have to go through a bit of extra work upgrading. I haven’t tried it on any of my installs yet, but it looks straight forward enough, if not as easy as I’d prefer. That’s the problem with using code that haven’t reached the critical 1.0 number yet, so who’s complaining?
Actually, I did whine a bit about bbPress recently, over at Devlounge. I think it still is pretty far from 1.0, check that post out if you’re interested in the forum sibling of WordPress.
I’m a dedicated WordPress supporter. The fact that this particular blogging software exists as an open source offering is, indirectly, paying my bills. You see, most of my income is from designing WordPress themes (and leeching The Blog Herald of course), and that would be pretty hard if WordPress wasn’t free. Still possible, but I sincerely doubt that the system would be this widespread, hence I would have a harder time finding clients that needs to prettify their blogs and sites.
When I was getting started with WordPress quite some time ago, pre-1.5, the community was a great help. The WordPress support forum answered my questions when I needed it to, although most of them was actually already out there, on the forum or in the WordPress wiki, called Codex nowadays, a great resource.
