Comments on: The Drupal dilemma

By: Rimian

Rimian — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:44:56 +0000

This is a good article and all the points are valid.

I haven’t worked with wordpress very much but respect it as a quality piece of software.

The Drupal/Swiss Army Knife analogy doesn’t quite work I think. Drupal has a powerful API and hook system which makes if more flexible like lego rather than something multi- functional yet fixed in it’s design like a Swiss Army Knife. That’s why it’s been adapted later on to new tasks like Blogging etc.

But yes: Drupal’s power is not through simplicity where word press is just that.

By: Red & Orange

Red & Orange — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:01:27 +0000

[...] Migration from Drupal to WordPress complete Well, I finally made the move and migrated the site from Drupal to WordPress. I finished everything up yesterday and I’m now only finding some time to write about how the process went. I saw some commentary and references (doctorvee, brianpuccio.net, Thought Patterns, Weblog Tools Collection, New Links) to the ideas I placed forth in a previous post (The Drupal Dilemma) and it was interesting to read the feedback. Its nice to see that I wasn’t the only one that didn’t like Drupal as a blog publishing tool. I didn’t actually write a script to perform the migration as I found a lot of little tweaks to the process needed to be made the entire way through.Before starting I did find two sites that discussed their migration efforts from Drupal to WordPress (Panayotis Vryonis and Travis Bradshaw). Unfortunately, even the SQL statements Panayotis listed on his site did not match the Drupal db structure I had. I’m assuming that we were migrating from different versions of Drupal. So, I ended up writing SQL to do the transfer. Then it was a matter of making some minor adjustments. OK, let me amend that statement. Making many minor adjustments. [...]

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By: gtoddv

gtoddv — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:39:56 +0000

Great to read a sensible posting about using the right tool for the job. Drupal is great, I run a number of sites. But as far as blogging is concerned, it falls short. No matter what the Drupal zealots will tell you, it can’t be all things to all people. Nor is it a very good blogging tool, yet. Unfortunately, if you dare post this on the Drupal site, you will be flamed almost out of existence.

Just getting Drupal running properly as a typical portal site can be a challenge. But that is another discussion.

If you want to blog, get a blogging tool, if you want a CMS take a look at Drupal, if you want to install a new hardrive, get a screwdriver. The right tool for the right job.

Thanks for the great post.

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By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:59:59 +0000

Migration from Drupal to WordPress complete

Well, I finally made the move and migrated the site from Drupal to WordPress. I finished everything up yesterday and I’m now only finding some time to write about how the process went. I saw some commentary and references to the ideas I placed forth i…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

DoctorVee has written a piece about Blogger dying, people leaving and New Links moving to Drupal.

I thought New Links was the best example of how to exploit the

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

True, it does sound simple, but I found nothing is particularly easy with Drupal.

I plan on documenting my steps and any scripts I write to accomplish the migration and send it over to the WordPress folks.

WordPress is is great software and I’d love to help anyone else in this same situation.

By: Gregory Wild-Smith

Gregory Wild-Smith — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Surely comments and trackbacks are held in the MySQL as well? So it shouldn’t be any harder to port those across than the posts.

I’m sure its probably just a matter of a lot of foreach statements. If I knew the Drupal db structure I’d offer to help!

However – when you work out how to do it – submit it to WP, I’m sure they’d welcome more conversion formats.

By: Charybdis

Charybdis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I had the same thing. I like a lot of Drupal, and it’s the backend for my main website, but I grew to despise its handling of my (not)blog. So I just used both. Drupal for all my regular pages and other behind the scenes controls; WordPress as a seperate installation. As far as visitors can see, it’s all one coherent whole.