Which Open Source Backend Platform Suits Your Needs?

Not sure I get the bike comparisons. Is that a tricycle for WordPress? Training wheels? Is it easy or hard to ride? Thanks!

Great infographic. I liked the who’s is for it graphics, which is true.

And… you answered me in your post. Sorry about that.

Apples and Oranges and Pears mate. Drupal is a racing car. Hard to drive but if you have the skills, boy does it go.

Hi Jan,TYPO3 is not used widely. If you take a look at their homepage their news has not been updated since January 26, 2011. That is over 6 months ago. Would you tell your clients that they should use that open source platform over Drupal, Word Press, or Joomla? TYPO3 according to compete.com only has about 2,700 uniques a month with a peek of 9k users per month. Who knows maybe it will pick up but right now it looks stale.

Hi Ian,Love Drupal and the Devious media site is built on Drupal. It is very powerful. Hopefully, at some point it will get easier to use for the masses.

Vrlo interesantno.Danas smo objavili u savetu dana o WordPressuhttp://saveti.kombib.rs/5_linkova_za_wordpress_koji_ce_vam_mozda_trebati_01.html

@Marcus: thank you for pointing out the right informations about TYPO3 on the web!

Is this the entire article? Any details on the methodology? What about 5.0 Mio visitors to the main site for wordpress? Does that include the wordpress hosted blogs, if so it is very misleading!You are really suggesting that 14.3% of the top 1 million websites are using WordPress as a platform? Does that weigh wordpress.com 143.000 times as among the 1 Mio top sites and count every blog hosted there separately? It just does not sound right, unless you can explain the methodology!Average number of tweets per day and/or the Facebook like counter? It just means their popularity correlates with users of the specific social media (or some marketing department decided that is where they focus their strategy). But how does this help ME make any decision between any of the three?

As a web developer and longtime programmer, I find Drupal to be the Swiss Army chainsaw of content management systems – the core code is nicely put together, the API is well-documented online, and the community are very helpful (though they may not necessarily go out of their way for those who can’t use search

I used wordpress and its very powerfull.

Great article. I was wondering if WordPress has much of a future, but after reading this I’d say the future looks Very Bright !David

This seems like a biased post. WordPress has great features, but clearly this is pointing things out as WP is the best, Joomla is #2 and Drupal is #3. How can Joomla have anything but the easiest for installs? Installs and updates are 1 click. Moderation is just as easy in 1.7. How about Drupal? It can do some pretty powerful things, once it is set up right. Drupal and Joomla are completely separate from WP, since WP is not a CMS. I am biased, as I mostly work with Joomla. However I have worked with all 3, and if I wanted to do a fair comparison I’d point out the good and bad of each. Not knocking WP here, it is a great blogging platform.

Gentlemen and ladies, I am a novice when it comes to websites and desire to build my own starter site. I would like to point out a few things from my perspective:1. At my level, all I hear about is WordPress, Drupal and Joomla regarding opensource to consider. Therefore, this side by side visual comparison is very important to me.2. I realize that a single perspective on anything will never be perfect because the author is not all knowing/all seeing and each reader has varied knowledge sets as well. 3. Anyone using their best judgment and knowledge to provide useful information to others gets an applause from me, but I realize it comes with a bit of responsibility as well.4. I am GRATEFUL for Dave taking the TIME to publish this article – especially leaving it open for comments/feedback!!! Why? Because all of you experts out there reply with AMAZING remarks that dynamically adds GREATNESS to the final read (for me and so many others). Dave, please continue to be the spark that ignites such wonderful collaboration and content!Make It A Great Day! John.

Nice looking infographic, but lacks the “info”. I don’t see how know how many twitter followers and facebook fans a CMS has can help in the decision making. No features were mentioned, aside from “out of the box SEO”, which is vague at best.The agency I work with uses both Drupal and WordPress fairly equally, and none of us believe one is better than the other, they each have their strengths and weaknesses.I used to develop Joomla plugins, pre-1.5, and gave up with 1.5 came out and became incredibly bloated.Generally speaking, Drupal is great for large, more complex websites, with its great caching modules, whereas WordPress is great for small website and can be put together in a matter of hours, not days.

Interesting comparison. I have tried the 3 and my favorite is Drupal because I can make .html pages with ease. In terms of making and editing pages, the three of them are ok, but I think the big weakness is making your own templates/themes on the three of them.

Great infographic. I’d love to see it updated – I suspect that WordPress had gained even more ground since WP3, and Joomla! appears to have lost the plot by not tending it’s documentation and making it web-developer friendly.It would be nice to see how each system’s support environment stacks up: # pages of documentation, # forum posts, post response time, etc. I have no doubt that WordPress will prevail, but the comparison will be interesting.