A comparison of CMS

 I have played a bit with Joomla, more with Drupal and have developed most on WordPress. 1. Wordpress - it is CRAP! The reason it gets voted in so many comparisons and contests is the fact it is popular. It is popular because most people are morons who want to get stuff done fast, no matter how. Internally WP is crap. Possibly worst developed PHP application I have ever seen. It has a simple admin interface and it is simple to use. But the minute you need to do something unusual with it you bump into lots of problems. It is not impossible to do something, it is just bad code, and becomes a performance hit on top of that. And since I reached the performance topic, here it sucks as well (do not argue with me saying there is WP Super Cache. That doesn't cover situations where you need REAL performance and can't cache). In fewer words, WP is a blogging platform not a CMS. 2. Jooma - not impressed by it. Much better than Wordpress as a CMS. I am not very impressed by its architecture because I find Drupal better. 3. Drupal - difficult to learn. Documentation kinda sucks. Once you get familiar with it however, you realize it is the best CMS of the pack. A mile ahead of Joomla in terms of architecture, 10 miles ahead Wordpress. These days everybody is a fanatic of MVC. Drupal is not MVC-based but I tell you this: it is amazingly well designed for an old framework. Yes, I said framework, because it is not just a CMS. Its code is done so well that you can use it as a framework once you are familiar with it. It is also the only CMS to offer clean SEO-friendly URLs out of the box. As a matter of fact, the other CMS' do it poorly even with plugins. That being said, a CMS is not the perfect solution for every case. Sometimes custom code is best. It is the developer's responsibility to determine the best architecture for a website and choose the best too for the job. Though I find WordPress the worst PHP application ever, I use it on tens of sites that I own. Why? Simple, because it takes me 2 hours to deploy a site with a custom theme on WordPress. If one of them grows big, beyond what I feel confortable using WP for, I can always switch to Drupal. MODx is the only CMS listed here that clearly separate code from markup. No php hook in html code - ever! No need to hack the core to add functionality either. Still a young players but it clearly the future of CMSs -modx rocks