[add-art dev] Drupal vs. Wordpress for Add-Art site

[Daniel Caleb Thompson]

there is one more con to drupal:

server overhead. once you are using a few custom views and more than
10plugins the site (even when cached) really slows down...

Daniel Caleb Thompson
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Steve Lambert <steve at visitsteve.com>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Just wanted to open some discussion I've been having with a few of you
> about possibly moving the Add-Art site to wordpress.  Thanks to Alyssa and
> some help here at Eyebeam we've got drupal updated to the latest version but
> there's still a lot of work to get it where we need it. Here's some
> thoughts, please add yours and we'll figure out which way to go.
>
> Steve
>
>
> *Drupal:*
> Pros
> - Allows us to create super custom forms that ensure we get the right size
> images.
> - Potential to code out features that will help (someday) fully automate
> add-art.
> - It's running an kinda gets the job done - though we need to do some work
> to get the old galleries to display
>
> Cons:
> - No one on our team knows it really well
> - usability for people approaching it cold is tricky.
> - updates are labor intensive.
>
> *Wordpress:*
> *
> *
> Pros
> - a lot of us know it very well
> - more users will be already familiar with it and usability barriers are
> lower
> - greg is hot to code the redesign in WP
>
> Cons
> - not as extensible. Could hit limits
> - potentially less able to fully automate add-art
>
>
> Misc:
> If our new goal is to take feeds, maybe automating the whole process is a
> lower priority.
>
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