# Need to set up a new CMS for my website - recommendations and discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-set-up-a-new-cms-for-my-website-recommendations-and-discussion/612297 "2012-02-09T09:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-set-up-a-new-cms-for-my-website-recommendations-and-discussion/612297/1 "2012-02-09T09:14:13Z")
My website currently uses a PHP-based CMS called Fuzzylime - I chose it because it was very easy to configure and did not require a back end DB (which my hosting package did not provide) - and unlike some of the other non-DB CMS offerings, it scales up very well without performance problems. Anyway, it’s out of support now (the one-man-band author has abandoned it) and I’ll soon have databases in my hosting package, so I intent to make a (quite leisurely) move to a different CMS - probably one with a MySQL back end and definitely one that’s a living project. At the moment, Drupal looks like a sound choice. Anybody want to persuade me otherwise (or have a better recommendation?) I’ve got a great deal of existing content that I’ll want to port over to the new framework - my plan was to set up a WAMP box at home and populate the historical content on there, then hopefully, there’ll be a quick and easy way to pack that up and restore it onto the (new) live CMS. What do I need to know? ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-set-up-a-new-cms-for-my-website-recommendations-and-discussion/612297/2 "2012-02-13T04:53:30Z")
I use Wordpress for my site, but it’s pretty much just the blog and a few pages. I have heard very good things about Drupal - some of the teams at work have used it for mid-sized sites. All of my direct CMS experience (aside from Wordpress) is with enterprise-scale packages, most of which suck. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-set-up-a-new-cms-for-my-website-recommendations-and-discussion/612297/3 "2012-02-13T06:45:50Z")
Well, tell us a bit more about your site (or link to its current incarnation). A lot of CMSes I’ve tried vary in subtle ways and some are more suitable for certain projects or certain types of user, etc. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-set-up-a-new-cms-for-my-website-recommendations-and-discussion/612297/4 "2012-02-13T07:38:57Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Well, tell us a bit more about your site (or link to its current incarnation). [Here is the OP’s site](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/). It looks like a site that would be ideal for a WordPress setup. I’m no professional web developer, but i’ve messed about with Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress installations on my own computer, and i think WordPress is the most user-friendly, especially for people who don’t have huge amounts of experience getting in behind the scenes and messing about with the PHP. All of these CMS’s are very customizable, but i think that WordPress themes and plugins are among the easiest to incorporate into a site. Joomla and Drupal have a steeper learning curve, at least in my limited experience. I think that getting Atomic Shrimp up and working on WordPress, especially if you don’t want to change the look or layout very much, should be pretty damn easy. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-set-up-a-new-cms-for-my-website-recommendations-and-discussion/612297/5 "2012-02-13T10:18:15Z")
I highly recommend WordPress too. With the right plugins, custom themes and some PHP programming you can make it into anything you want to. [I can even help you with it!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=588729) ---
**Author:** ![ElisH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3e96dc/32.png) [@ElisH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElisH)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-set-up-a-new-cms-for-my-website-recommendations-and-discussion/612297/6 "2020-07-17T09:22:28Z")
It depends on your needs and what is more comfortable for you. Here is the link to the article about comparing two CMS I recommend [https://drudesk.com/blog/5-differences-between-drupal-and-wordpress](https://drudesk.com/blog/5-differences-between-drupal-and-wordpress).