Wordpress to Drupal for my Real Estate Community
Hey everyone, I have been bobbing around the site here for a couple of days, mostly because I have been toying with the idea of converting my real estate license community from Wordpress to Drupal.
Why? Because I have heard a lot of great things about Drupal and believe that it offers more "community" type features. The one thing that has really kept me with WordPress up to this point is the amazing support and community for the platform itself, the constant free plugins and themes being released is great. That is really why I have been poking around here, I wanted to see how strong of a community the Drupal users have built.
Have any of you made the transformation from WordPress to Drupal, I would love to here some experiences from everyone. One thing I am concerned with is of course search engine rankings and downtime, will this be an issue should I decide to go this route?
Thanks for the help!
Total Newbie and a Real Estate Person - Drupal Hard
My experience with Drupal from installing to operation has been HARD. I'm a total newbie, but it seems like Drupal is so programmer oriented that you are always having to get under the hood to fix it. Drupal wins the feature race hands down, but it needs capable administration. Feels like flying Microsoft Flight Simulator only you don't know what the plane is supposed to do.
I've switched my site from
I've switched my site from WP to Drupal recently. I would suggest you want to understand what you're doing before you make the plunge. If you don't know how to install and use a local server yet...learn. Then practice what you want to do on that local server until you have it right. This is a good thing to learn anyway, but I know a lot of WP users don't ever think about it.
A little planning up front will go a long way, but in the end I'm convinced you'll be happy w/ the outcome.
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Open-Realty Maybe?
I am currently dabbling in WP and have been reading up on Open-Realty. Have you had any experiences with it? I am pretty happy with WP and really like the plugins and the support.
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