What are some situations in which you would use Joomla or Drupal over Wordpress?

I'd use Joomla when what is needed is basic CMS functions, specialized interactive applications, and/or slick eye candy all in a package anyone can learn to operate easily and is fast to roll out. I probably wouldn't use Drupal except for sizable social or media sites, and it would require a team of people to produce. Drupal is really the only full blown CMS in the top tiers of the FOSS WCM market, meaning it truly manages content.

Everything you put in it can be an object with a custom view, custom classification, custom permissioning, etc. Problem is, it has a super tough, PITA interface. I don't think the modules that try to make the UI better really help all that much. Drupal requires enculturation and heavy education to use.

Operators must grok it, and that's not easy. The anarchic and not very attractive condition of Drupal.Org is sympotamtic of all this. That is why the UI and drupal.

Org are priorities now for rehab. I think there's a good chance than in a year or two, Elgg will have eliminated Drupal from meaningful use as a social platform. Joomla, Concrete5, Wordpress and others will dominate the general purpose CMS market.

Drupal will be pushed into some kind of advanced needs niche. Acquia will lock that market up. All the fans and small-scale webdevs who have enjoyed playing with Drupal for years will drift away as they wake up to reality.

I'm currently working on a project with a voluntary sector organization that is a perfect case for a Drupal implementation. The client is building a database of resources that it's members will find useful. Drupal is giving us the flexibility to create different content types, manage the associations between content items, create arbitrary taxonomies and apply geotagging to many of the items.

CCK and Views means that we can get up and running with prototypes very quickly and use the prototypes to refine the system with end users accessing live data.

From my experience, Wordpress is easier for a client to use. Most clients do not want to learn to manage their CMS. Generally, the larger clients will have a team whose job is to learn the CMS, but small clients are usually just 1 or two people that have other jobs and do not want to learn too much.

They want to write an article, publish it and it shows up on the front page. For this Wordpress works great, as most people already have a knowledge or experience with blogs also. So if we had a client that didn't show interest in learning something new, fire up Wordpress.

If they had a team that had to learn this, fire up the full CMS. We've had some projects that required very strict SEO. For this Wordpress was the safest bet.

We have focused more on Joomla recently and the SEO has improved dramatically from version 1.0. X to the 1.5. X branches. When ever a project called for extending the software, we would use a full CMS, as it has a better framework/API for this.

Joomla in particular has literally thousands of GPL and Commercial extensions out there, so this significantly makes it a better choice when features are a concern. These are probably the most critical factors that have influenced our decision when choosing Wordpress or Joomla/Drupal CMS.

If you are going to use Joomla or Drupal you are going to become invested heavily in that technology to make the slightest changes to your websites. Â Wordpress is far more supported in the non-developer community to do simple websites. Â I would only use Joomla or Drupal if you are a developer yourself and aren't quite sure where you might want your website to go--and once you've classified yourself as a developer you might just look at a framework like ROR or django instead.

When you mention that Joomla and Drupal are "full featured CMS'", I think that you're leading the correct answer here. Joomla and Drupal are full content management systems. They can be modified and extended to be used in a variety of ways.

Wordpress, is a blogging platform. However, the line is a fuzzy, grey one so I understand your question. If you use the extensions available for Joomla or Drupal (or code it yourself), you can use it as a blogging platform with the same features as Wordpress.

If you use the extensions available for Wordpress, you can use it as a content management system beyond typical blogs. The "right tool for the job" depends on the exact requirements of your project. For example, if you were building an entire website that listed products, services, contact information, hours of operation and wanted to start blog, you would be best to consider a full featured CMS.

This would give you a ton of flexibility and separate the content from the design to make updating both easy. On the flip side of the coin, if you wanted to run a blog first-and-foremost with daily posts, and widly recognized blog features, I'd suggest Wordpress. The difference is again fuzzy because the differences between traditional blogging platforms and full featured Content Management Systems is blurring.

Personally, I like Drupal and the Expression Engine. Wordpress is my go-to for quick and easy installs that form fast blogs. If you're looking to extend your knowledge and move into an advanced world of web development where the content is always separated from the design, look into a full CMS.

I hope that this helps!

In my opinion that's easy to answer. WP you would use if you are creating a blog. IF your creating a site for say corp, church information that isnt going to be a post and comment style format go with Joomla or Drupal.

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