Joomla or Pligg?

[emp]

Need a lightweight, customizable CMS.

This will be for a site that I MIGHT even do manually / static Html, but really, I would prefer a CMS.

Any opinions on this?

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[JamesH]

Wordpress is even lighter I believe.

 

[nickycakes]

drupal is hot

 

[Supergeek]

I'd say it depends how many different boxes of information you want on your front page.

Wordpress is pretty easy to set up, has plugins for different sources for your posts, but is basically just posts and pages.

Pligg is the same thing, right? One major flow of information.

Drupal and Joomla are more what I'd call CMS's. They have a lot of different plugins, including forums, voting, etc. These packages are a lot more flexible, but also a lot more complex to set up.

 

[emp]

Hmmpf...

I know my way around CMSes, though I have to admit that I am not looking forward to learning yet another one.

I might try Wordpress for this.

Or go manual.
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[Swifty]

If its only between Joomla and Pligg, I'd say go with Joomla. Otherwise, I'd say try out Drupal as a cms.

 

[dsiomtw]

Depends what you want to do with it. If you are wanting to create a Digg like site where people submit stuff and vote, etc. and the most popular stuff goes to the front page etc. then Pligg is the way to go. If that's not what you're trying to do, surely Joomla or Drupal are much more advanced than Pligg. Pligg was specifically developed for the sole purpose of creating Digg clone sites.

 

[emp]

Ahhh...
Thanks for that info.

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[Atomm]

I know it's not entirely a CMS, but I am starting to come around to WP. I love Joomla, but it lacks a lot of the Onsite and Offsite SEO tools that WP has. No Trackback. Ping is a pain. SEO Plugins are not compatible with all plugins.

 

[L146705]

used both of them, thought they where both too complicated for a cms. I wanted something simple at the time. Between the two Joomla is better than pligg.

 

[ohmichea]

I wouldn't do pligg..... It's very slow, buggy, and you cant delete anything without going directly into the database.

 

[xecutech]

How about Mambo? I have used it on sites I develop for clients who need to edit their content.

 

[LazyD]

Mambo is switching over to the CakePHP framework as of version 5, so unless you already know your way around Cake, MVC Architecture and Object Oriented programming methods I would say stay away from it...