What's a good blogging/CMS platform these days?

[Chakravartin]

I'm upgrading my hosting plan and would like to take the opportunity to move to a new content-management and blog platform.

I used to use Movable Type and found it close to ideal for several years, but after upgrading in 2009 I discovered that it was no longer particularly stable. Under new ownership, I don't trust the product at all... But I'm very fond of the static-publishing options in Movable Type. I like that I wouldn't have to rely on PHP and SQL to deliver content as they are not especially fast or reliable under a shared hosting plan.

I've been using Joomla since 2009, but thanks to a complete overhaul of the product and its minimum system requirements, I've been unable to upgrade it for the last couple of years and as a result I've been running the site without the latest security patches and my site got hacked. Also, I can't migrate my data to the new version, so I'd have to start from scratch even if I stuck with Joomla and I'm tired of the over-complicated interface.

Running Wordpress is an invitation to hackers. Burnt once with Joomla. Seen every one of my friends who use Wordpress hacked. Not gonna go near that one.

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In addition to a blog, I've got a few dozen pages of family photos and instructional-guides and such that I host on my site, so some sort of content management system is almost essential.

Is Drupal 7 worth a second look? What else is out there?

[M A V I C]

WordPress is probably more secure than most other CMSs out there. Some of the main exploits have come from:
- Improper server config
- Third party components within WP
- Not using good usernames & passwords
- Installing plugins from untrusted sources
- Not updating the core and/or plugins

None of those are inherently WordPress's fault. And to WP's credit updating the core and plugins is a much easier process than many other CMSs. Not only that, but there's many hosts that will automatically update them for you.

I've run several hundred WP sites for ~5+ years and never had an issue. I've been contacted on many occasions to clean up hacked WP installs, and it's always been one of the above issues.

[wolfcry911]

textpattern

[dotman]

drupal.

dot.

[Chakravartin]

Thanks!

TextPattern looks interesting. I'm gonna do a test-install of Drupal.

WordPress may be great nowadays, but I'm spooked on it. Not gonna go there. I don't want to add paranoia about my site being hacked to my pile of worries.