[Evangelism] Looking for talking points comparing Plone vs. Wordpress

dduncan donnyduncan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 05:51:01 UTC 2013


Needing three years of experience to customize anything successfully in
Drupal is precisely why I don't use it. I understand having special
functions and all, but I don't see that much from Drupal to make it
worthwhile in my opinion.


Steve McMahon wrote
> A point to keep in mind about the "more people know PHP" point.
> 
> A few years ago, I was at a symposium for advocacy organizations, and the
> lead Drupal speaker made just that point (PHP coders are cheap and
> plentiful!). However, at a Drupal-specific panel later in the day, he said
> that if you needed customization, you should never hire anyone with less
> than three years full-time programming with Drupal. He termed PHP
> experience outside Drupal "worthless" since they wouldn't know the Drupal
> way, and wouldn't be able to write safe code.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:09 AM, dtlenergy <

> dtlenergy@

> > wrote:
> 
>> One thing I would say in favour of Wordpress is that  more people know
>> how
>> to
>> program in PHP and use MySql than know
>> Python.
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