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By: James

James — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:36:14 +0000

I fear you overestimate my professionalism ;) I doubt there will be many matrices involved – but feel free to suggest factors.

By: pax

pax — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:33:27 +0000

Besides asking readers to come up with reasonable competitor examples, one important think is defining the head to head matrix you’ll be using for the comparison – the features you will be aligning – but this might come after you publish the article.

Anyway, a great idea, waiting forward for reading it.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:32:50 +0000

I like your line up with Drupal, Joomla, and Moveable Type. You might also include services such as Ning. You can blog with Ning but I think it’s main focus is social networking. You could also include applications like Moodle. Coming from the education side of things, this is what a lot of our teachers wrestle with – choice between WordPress and a course management software.

Thanks for taking the time to review these. It’s very beneficial to me and several others here in Nebraska. We have a statewide organization that is considering a move away from Manila/Frontier as our software to offer a web presence for schools and teachers to something else.

By: Russell Fair

Russell Fair — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:55:24 +0000

There are several obvious reasons in my opinion for these trends:

1 – Open source => larger community, larger pool of available plug-ins and themes.
2 – WordPress is simple as heck to use and keeps getting better with every new version.
3 – Ability to create and customize niche focused sites. I used WP Mu to power http://resumesee.com – basically used pre-existing plug-ins to make it a resume hosting platform, not a blog platform.
4 – More self hosting options. I can set up and configure MU in a moment. there is no other turn key platform like WordPress MU – thank you to all the awesome people behind it. I make a full time income off of setting up and customizing WordPress (especially MU) and I owe a lot of that to the WP community.

PS if you are not already a premium.wpmudev.org member, you should be. I joined last month and have received several great leads from it.

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:10:40 +0000

Thanks for the feedback guys!

I suppose that the reason I’m not super keen on looking at Concrete 5 or similar is just that it’s more a different set of posts, like an ‘up and coming’ review – whereas this is examining mature platforms and all that.

Yeh, sorry about the colours :)

By: masonjames

masonjames — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:24:21 +0000

Hey James,

Looking forward to this series of posts. I jumped on the wordpressmu wagon a year ago and haven’t looked back. I’m continually amazed by both the extensibility of wordpress as a blogging/cms platform and the community of wordpress devs. As a note (cause I can’t just let it go at that) the colors are reversed for joomla and drupal in the 3rd and 4th graph.

Again, looking forward to this series!

By: Mariano

Mariano — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:24:01 +0000

Interesting article, and I think it would be really valuable to make those comparisons for all of us developing web sites out here. I did a “smackdown” of WordPress (not MU specifically) vs. Drupal vs. Joomla. Got a lot a comments as a result.

Another recent entry you might want to check out is Concrete 5. It’s not nearly as popular yet as any of the other solutions out there, but I really do like it. I wrote a “first look” article for that as well on my blog.

Anyway, looking forward to the new/updated reviews! Good luck!