hello, I was thinking about maybe switching from wordpress to a content management system like geeklog or php-nuke. Is this a simple transition and a wise one?
What will you get out of the change? Changing from one CMS to another could be fairly simple if you don't have a lot of content already compiled, or could be a massive job. So the question is: Just what does the new CMS give you that Wordpress cannot?
The only problem is if you are using WordPress as a content management system you are using the wrong tool for the job. WordPress is a great platform for blogging, that is why I switched over from Blogger. But WordPress is not a great system for managing a website that is not a blog. The greatest features that I like about WordPress as a blog are the commenting and discussion and it is focused on the continual addition of new posts. WordPress also does a much better job of using RSS and allows syndication of the content very easily. Joomla, is a great system for creating websites of all sizes, but one thing Joomla is not very good at is blogging. Joomla lacks a few features out of the box that make a blog unique, mainly the commenting and discussion ability of WordPress. I also find the RSS features of Joomla to be lacking. Sure it offers RSS but it is often restricted to home page content. You can add extensions to Joomla to make it behave more like blogging software, but it is just not as good for some reason.
Wordpress sites: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily http://babyparenting.about.com/ http://www.blogsouthwest.com/ http://help.com/ http://www.colbertnation.com/home Seems to be a pretty good CMS to me?
I go with the others as well and suggest that you stick with WP as there is simply no other better CMS than this.
Can anyone offer their 2 cents on Wordpress vs Drupal? I am writing an info based site that will be affiliate based.