i would like to make community website with news section where users could submit news + community forum... which CMS should i use? i was thinking about wordpress+bbpress+buddypress ... but i am not sure about forum features... another CMS I really like is vanilla forum ... but i dont know how to make the news section ... what do you think? is there any other choice? what shoud i do? i have knownledge of html and css
Hi, As you are thinking about wordpress+bbpress+buddypress .you are thinking right . it has every thing you need.don't worry you are going to use world no 1 cms.
Wordpress should work just fine for your needs. However, if you have a few bucks to spend I highly recommend vBulletin or Joomla depending on which part of the site you envision being used the most; vbulletin (more forum) or Joomla (more news)
Use drupal,Do everything with drupal. If i need blog then definitely i use drupal rather that wp or joomla..
For user-friendliness, neat and tidy backend and visual options I would go with WordPress. Personal favorite and increasingly liked from both tech savvy and non-savvy users. For variety of functionality and combinations of plugins Joomla is a pretty good option. A little more complicated than WP but gives a wide freedom when used properly. Drupal is also great but I can only recommend for a little more advanced users, developers and such. It is still going strong for a number of years and rightfully so. Still lacks the number of plugins WP and Joomla can offer.
I would also agree with you on WordPress, simply because they have thousands of plug-ins that site owners can install on their Web servers and enhance the functionality of their WordPress blogs.