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title: "TECHWR-L and Technical Editing SIG Implement Drupal and WordPress"
date: 2007-03-14
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# TECHWR-L and Technical Editing SIG Implement Drupal and WordPress
I explored the TECHWR-L Drupal site for a while. It's pretty classy, and offers some features WordPress doesn't. For example, anyone can register and start posting to the blog, and then your posts are attributed to your own TECHWR-L blog. So Drupal offers multi-user blogs, allowing a community of writers to have blogs on a central site. ([WordPress MU](http://mu.wordpress.org/) also offers multi-user blogs, but the implementation is different.)

For those who have blogs on other sites, Drupal clearly has the ability to pull in syndicated content from feeds. You can [read my posts](http://techwr-l.com/aggregator/categories/5) on the site as if I had posted there myself. I'm wondering how many feeds the site can aggregate before it slows down. I once implemented a Quick PHP plugin along with a Feedreader Chaitgear plugin on the STC-Suncoast.org site, and then pulled in about 20 feeds. But the page took almost 30 seconds to load, so I finally scrapped it.

One area for improvement for the TECHWR-L blog is with comments — you have to register and log in to post. Few have the patience to do log in to make comments. You can use [Akismet for Drupal](https://drupal.org/node/68535) to stop comment spam, but I'm not sure if TECHWR-L is using it.

One Drupal feature I'm impressed with is the live e-mail feed. Actually, any e-mail listserv can be converted to a feed, so it's just a matter of converting it and then displaying the latest feed posts. However, the TECHWR-L site helps appease users who want both formats — who prefer the e-mail, or who prefer the web-based blog. It's more difficult to read threads via the email feed, but at least it's there, integrated into one site.

Drupal is impressive (I've noticed the [Puget Sound Chapter](http://www.stc-psc.org/) also uses Drupal for their site), and it got me wondering more about the differences between WordPress and Drupal. After researching a bit, I think it can be summed up as follows: if you are looking for a sophisticated, configurable content management site that includes a blog, go for Drupal. If you mostly want a blog, go for WordPress.