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Evaluating Drupal and WordPress MU

Authoring, editing, and managing official College Web sites

By Jay Collier, January 25, 2010

As part of our new Web Hub program — and in previous discovery projects (2008 | 2007) — I’ve been evaluating open-source content management software. Our two finalists are Drupal and WordPress MU.

Based on hands-on experience — as well as some preliminary ranking of criteria against our goals — I have been impressed with how similar these two packages behave in many ways. However, here are several areas where I’ve found differences worth attention.

This excerpt is made available for scholarly use as defined by the Fair Use doctrine. Permission to republish the entire post has been requested. Contact Jay for a copy.

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