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Directory Structure: WP, Joomla, Drupal

Ability to move content from one platform to the other without mass 301s

         

Webwork

6:58 pm on Aug 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Quickie, hopefully.

I've started playing with WordPress and will be putting a bit of effort into a new website between now and PubCon. I will be using WP both as the site's CMS (installed at root) and also in a /blog (magazine) sub-directory.

IF I later decide to morph the site to a new CMS, such as Drupal because I'm interested in greater interaction/community or Joomla will I be able to map the same directory structure?

For example, using WP "as a CMS" (installed at root) I am able to build the following structure:

Example.com/jobs
Example.com/events
Example.com/education
Example.com/education/degrees

Do both Joomla and Drupal facilitate the same directory structure or will I be facing the need to implement site wide redirects?

Thanks.

P.S. Anyone move a site from WP -> Drupal or WP -> Joomla? Have a story to tell? Please do.

ergophobe

9:31 pm on Aug 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Don't know Joomla, but in Drupal you control the URLs anyway you want (pretty much) and with refinements to core and a module here and there, duplicate content issues are... better.

The big hassle, of course, is writing the script to transfer content, but I suspect there may already be drupal->WP->drupal helper scripts.

Webwork

10:51 pm on Aug 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Thank-you 'phobe, as always. Nice to have someone so savvy and helpful on board. :)

[edited by: ergophobe at 11:08 pm (utc) on Aug. 6, 2008]
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