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WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

x something, and a developer and user of Drupal since 4.7, I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. A caveat: I have more experience, especially with larger sites, in Drupal than in WordPress, so there are things that I may be missing. Community Blogs.

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Drupal/Salesforce Integration

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A bit over a year ago, I wrote a post about the status of Drupal/Salesforce Integration. At the moment, if you want to integrate Drupal and Salesforce, you have three options: Use the contributed modules (or have a developer install and configure them for you). So what is the status of the Drupal modules?

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Drupal 7

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been doing a bit of playing around with Drupal 7 in my copious spare time (not a whole lot of that!) One thing to say – it feels like as big an improvement as Drupal 6 was to Drupal 5. So Drupal 5 will no longer get security updates and the like. But some may well not make it.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: CMS

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There are a myriad of options, open source options are among the most popular, possibly the most popular. And there are open source options that can do much of the same work for much less money. The open source options are many, but the big four: WordPress , Drupal , Joomla , and Plone , stand out from the pack.

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

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You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. On the Four Kitchens blog , they say, “While both reports above seem to identify Drupal (and Joomla! Drupal gets a “Solid&# on Scalability and security.

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Why use contributed Salesforce modules for Drupal?

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I wrote a blog entry a while back on the state of Drupal/Salesforce integration. What I didn’t say is that a number of shops that have done Drupal/SF integration for production sites chose not to use the contributed modules – they built (or are building) their own custom Salesforce/Drupal integration modules.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Nonprofit CRM

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Because of this, the deck has always been stacked against open source tools in this arena. However, Salesforce in particular has a leg up that most other proprietary tools don’t have, because of their open APIs and their incredibly robust development platform. It’s got a great community of developers and users.