Title: WordPress or Drupal – need help deciding
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# WordPress or Drupal – need help deciding

 *  [allisonmaccormick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allisonmaccormickgmailcom/)
 * (@allisonmaccormickgmailcom)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-or-drupal-need-help-deciding/)
 * I am taking on a project and I need to decide whether to develop it in Drupal
   or WordPress. I am slightly familiar with WordPress and not at all with Drupal.
   I know there will be an initial learning curve but I am most interested in finding
   the tool that supports my needs in the tightest/built-in way.
 * My site will have some pages that are public (about page and news page). It will
   then have a password protected section for kids and teachers to post text,videos
   etc and comment on each others work. Then we want collaboration between schools
   in a region and then eventually among different regions as well. There will be
   some pages that are available only to teachers and not students.
 * Other notes about functionality: We need the teacher/student pages of posts to
   be separated by category/subject. We need some organizations to enter information
   about grants in a specific format and then need to display that information. 
   Need to keep track of contact information of these organizations. Needs to link
   to Paypal for donations.
 * Any thoughts about the best tool for the project would be greatly appreciated!
   
   Thank you

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  [Nikki Blight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kionae/)
 * (@kionae)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-or-drupal-need-help-deciding/#post-2568394)
 * To be honest, either one would be perfectly capable of doing what you need. You
   can customize both WordPress and Drupal to a significant extent.
 * A word of caution on Drupal, though. It is VERY resource intensive, especially
   when you start going beyond the out-of-the-box installation. You can do things
   to optimize it, but it is something you have to be very aware of, particularly
   on sites that are liable to get a lot of traffic from logged-in users (where 
   caching has a limited effect). I got myself into a real mess with a Drupal site
   awhile back because of that.
 *  [Gabe Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabeyoung/)
 * (@gabeyoung)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-or-drupal-need-help-deciding/#post-2568685)
 * Based on your requirements, I agree that either would work fine.
 * IMO, Drupal is significantly more challenging to customize. If you are already
   somewhat familiar with WP, I would go that route.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘WordPress or Drupal – need help deciding’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [drupal](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/drupal/)

 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Gabe Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabeyoung/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-or-drupal-need-help-deciding/#post-2568685)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics