Seems like every day this month I've answered the same question: Why should I use Drupal instead of WordPress? And this is the answer I've come up with. They are entirely different applications, about as different as Microsoft Word is from Microsoft Excel.
Wordpress's most recent release, which they are calling "5.0" (catchy, huh?), comes with a bunch of new functionality and makes the solution "easier to use". Of course, I'm putting "easier to
A major new release for WordPress dropped today -- perhaps the one with the biggest impact in WordPress history!
Should you upgrade?
Probably not just yet. At least not if you have content to publish.
In September, Freelock was recognized as a leading web development company in Seattle by Clutch.
Results. Return On Investment. Value. How do you measure these things in a website? There's one thing you can easily measure -- cost. Or at least the amount you actually spend to build and maintain a site. The others are far more troublesome to measure.
We've had several clients recently chafing at how confining Drupal sites can be -- it can be a lot more work to make individual pages vary from the template, and if you have build web sites using a tool like Dreamweaver, you can't tweak the layout the same way.
Many organizations turn to customized applications to meet their specific IT requirements. The software capabilities available out of the box do not meet the needs of these organizations. For some, a simple customized add-on module can fill this void. For others, a completely customized application may be the way to go. Open Source software makes it possible to create the right solution without reinventing the wheel.
