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I am about to create my first website. I don't code I'll use WordPress to start. And as I learn move up to Joomla or Drupal.

But I'm curious. Have you coded MakeUseOf.com? If not, which program did you use to create the site?

Stuart Shatles
2010-12-10 04:43:00
Thanks. If WordPress is good enough for makeuseof.com it's good enough for me. As a beginner I'm not shooting for a site as dynamic as yours.
James Bruce
2010-12-10 17:59:00
By the way Stuart, there is very little on the MUO site that is not built in to a basic wordpress install. You will achieve the same "dynamic" functionality without actually doing any complicated coding, and when you do feel like increasing functionality, there is sure to be a plugin that does it for you.
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Tina
2010-12-09 22:36:00
Barry,MakeUseOf is based on Wordpress. Our current Wordpress Theme was designed by Kailoon . As for all the other coding projects and software involved in making the site work as it does, you would have to wait for an answer from Jorge and Aibek.
Tilman
2010-12-10 16:38:00
Interesting... Has MUO ever considered Joomla or Drupal or anything else? Why was Wordpress chosen? Could it be that you guys are working on a new version of the website with another more advanced CMS? :) Perhaps we will get more information from Jorge or Aibek :)
James Bruce
2010-12-10 17:57:00
I doubt we will ever move MUO to Joomla or Drupal, as there simply isnt the same level of support out there for them and the process of transferring the huge amount of database information would be too much trouble for very little gain. I'm curious as to why you think Joomla or Drupal are more advanced than Wordpress? In my opinion, they are far from it. The plugin community for Joomla and Drupal is poor at best, with thousands of incomptibilities, broken plugins etc. I've never had a pleasurable experience with either. Joomla does have a better community / forums aspect to it though, but I couldn't say if that's something we at MUO would ever go with in the future.Though, we could do with a new design, I'm sure the higher-ups have something in the works!
GeekLad
2010-12-11 16:47:00
Like James, I also doubt we'll ever move from WordPress. I wish that WordPress was object-oriented, as it would make it much easier to develop plugins and interface with objects (users, posts, comments, etc). When you develop WordPress plugins and themes, you have to use global functions that return individual variables and associative arrays. If it was object oriented, you would get back objects with methods and properties, which would be much easier for development, maintenance, and enhancing functionality.Unfortunately, because there is such a large plugin community, making a drastic change to make it object-oriented would break all the plugins, so I don't think it will ever happen.
Aibek
2010-12-17 08:53:00
I am with James and Jorge, MUO will stick with Wordpress mostly due to its flexibility and vast amount of support. Plus, as the number of popular sites using Wordpress grows so does the optimizations techniques/addons for speeding up server environment specifically for Wordpress etc.