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To choose a system..Drupal vs Wordpress

By John Herrigel

Real Estate Agent with The Herrigel-Kennedy Group - Portside Real Estate

December 16, 2008 08:48 AM

Just curious if anybody out there has had any experience with designing their real estate websites using Drupal.

I have read a book on this content management system and fooled around with it a bit but have built my most recent website about Portland Maine using Wordpress.

My gut is that Drupal is better in the long run as a content management systeme and simply has a bit steeper learning curve vs wordpress that is very user friendly and offers tons of plugins and obviously works great as a blogging only platform.

Any thoughts anybody?

Thanks,
John, Maine real estate agent

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Kris Wales

Keller Williams Realty - Lakeside Market Center - Macomb, MI

Real Estate Blog & Homes for Sale search site, Macomb County MI

John, I'm curious now about drupal. Hadn't heard of it before. I use wordpress on my other blog, and found a huge learning curve with it. Perhaps drupal would drive me batty then :-) Thanks for bringing it up - I'll play around with it.

Dec 16, 2008 08:55 AM

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John Herrigel

Hey Kris, Drupal is definitley a better content management system and has some really awesome features and can do more in a simpler, cleaner, coded way but it does not have as bit of a following yet as wordpress and thus lacks support and many modules to make easy fixes like Wordpress has.

Dec 16, 2008 09:01 AM

Brian Brumpton

Keller Williams Boise - Boise, ID

Boise Idaho Real Estate

First I've heard of it so now I have something else to add to my list of things to research. Nice looking site you built.

Dec 16, 2008 09:02 AM

real estate real estate

Providence, RI

John, if you plan to put lots of contents in a non-blog manner (strictly cms), drupal is the best choice for sure. However, for small website with not too much of contents, I would choose something different from wordpress or drupal. I use phpsqlitecms on my site and it works perfect for me. I do know drupal very well though.

Dec 16, 2008 10:27 AM

Lane Bailey

Century 21 Results Realty - Suwanee, GA

Realtor & Car Guy

I use WordPress for my blog and Joomla for my CMS on some other sites. It is bigger and badder than WP, and has a steeper learning curve, too. But it has HUGE support.

Dec 16, 2008 10:41 AM

Terry Miller

Miller Homes Group - Tyler, TX

Miller Homes Group and Tyler Apartment Locator

Great site. We use Blue Voda mainly because I am challanged to say the list when it comes to that. We do have a full time tech guy for all three companies so he keeps me out of trouble. Have some great holidays.

Dec 17, 2008 01:12 AM

Rodrick Branum

The craze of open source CMS is substantially increasing and there is nothing to doubt on the same. If you are planning to create a real estate Website, then you should try Drupal; it’s a very powerful platform and helps you to create a stunning and feature loaded portal within no matter of time. Just use appropriate Drupal templates and start creating your portal.

Jun 29, 2014 10:07 PM