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Drupal vs. wordpress as a cms

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By Matt Herring - Posted on 30 May 2013

I am new to museum technology, Drupal and Wordpress. My predecessor put together a fantastic RFP for our website and he was adamant about using Drupal. The main reason for his pro-Drupal approach is the modules. We are narrowing down our list of possible contractors and one of them wants to use WordPress instead of Drupal. I need to learn more about both so I’m hoping someone here might be able to help.

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Hi Matt, On universe.dk we
Submitted by Michael Andersen on May 31, 2013 - 2:48am.

Hi Matt,

On universe.dk we were in the same consideration and ended up going with WordPress.

It depends on what your needs are but for us we have been able to get most of the functionality we were looking for with WordPress plugins.

The plugins we use are:
All-in-One Event Calendar by Timely
CMS Page Order
File Gallery
FitVids for WordPress
Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms Campaign Monitor Add-On
Gravity Forms multilingual
jQuery Colorbox
Kimili Flash Embed
Redirection
Regenerate Thumbnails
Universe Subpages in Context (Custom made)
Universe Today's opening hours widget (Custom made)
Velvet Blues Update URLs
W3 Total Cache
WordPress Database Backup
WordPress SEO
WPBakery Visual Composer
WPML Multilingual CMS
WPML String Translation
WPML Translation Management

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Thank you. That is very
Submitted by Matt Herring on May 31, 2013 - 8:39am.

Thank you. That is very helpful. I like your site. Very clean, colorful and responsive.