By kwright on

Hi All,
I have several upcoming projects that share some comment needs. I have installed and dabbled with several NUKE flavor cms packages, only to find most of my time spent removing/hiding features either by config settings or hardcode changes. Not fun!

My question/needs:

1. Site has only ONE author for ALL content, articles, gallery and contact form.
2. Site needs NO community access features such as forums, polls, reviews, uploads, etc.
3. Site needs no registration requirements or login features other then site admin.

Is Durpal a good choice for a striped down cms solution?

How easy is Durpal to configure as described above?

Does anyone have any suggestion for another solution? I looked at phpwebsite, but has some major issues.

Thank you!

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bjornarneson’s picture

bjornarneson commented

This is no problem with Drupal. From a default install, all you have to do is disable user registration in http://example.com/admin/user/configure.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

For one, look under adminsiter -> access control, make sure the ' anonymous user' user only has 'access content' under the node module checked.

For two, that should be the default, normally only the story and page module should be enabled. If you do not want comments then under administer -> content -> configure (tab) -> content types (sub tab) for each content type click 'configure' and set 'Default comment setting:' to disabled.

For three look under administer -> users -> configure (tab) and set 'Public registrations:' to 'Only site administrators can create new user accounts.'

agentrickard’s picture

agentrickard
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IMO:

If you're never going to open the site up to public authorship, Drupal may not be the right choice. It might be like buying a Ferarri in order to drive a block to work. If you've diabled 50%+ of the features, you're probably using the wrong tool.

The others are correct, however, that you can use Drupal and disable new accounts. Just remember to give content access to anonymous users or no one but you will be able to see anything.

Consider the requirements of the tasks you have, then choose the CMS.

I use WordPress for personal blogging, and Drupal for group sites.

Here's why.

Then again, on the Drupal side, understand that you can run multiple sites from one codebase in Drupal, which might be a deciding factor for you.

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cel4145’s picture

cel4145 commented

I agree with all of the above and would like to point out that learning to use Drupal for a basic site like this gets you learning about Drupal for building larger, more complex web presences. With WordPress, you'll be spending time learning an application with much fewer potential applications.

kwright’s picture

kwright commented

I think I will do an install and give it a test drive!

I do have need for a full featured CMS such as Drupal and would like to standardize on one application that can do simple-stripped-down and ROBUST.

Thank you all for your replies and recommendations!