I really don’t like Drupal. I’ve been told that “it can do anything”. I think that’s its downfall.

Most of the Drupal setups that I’ve used haven’t anticipated all of my use cases. In every case, I’ve had to go back to the developers and ask for additional functionality to be added. Of course, it can be done, but only days later, and that’s not a realistic timeline for anything in 2010.

In contrast, WordPress is fairly rigid. Every install looks the same. It wasn’t intended to do everything. Because it operates within several constraints, it has forced developers to be more creative with their solutions. And users have had to conform to the framework, so it becomes more familiar to more people faster. Because of it’s limitations (and the forced adaptations of the WordPress community) it has many more resources — plugins, themes, code snippets — available to it.

Choosing between the two? Go with WordPress.

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