Hi Anil,
Are you really looking for CMS specifically,because BuddyPress isn’t strictly a CMS nor, really, is WP. What exactly are you looking to be running with the application you decide use?
Hi hnla,
Thanks for the reply.
Well, I want to set up a community type website where users can:
– Register as a member
– If already a registered member, log in and join a group or create their own group
– Use forums, blogs, see events (or for group owners to set up new events and publiscise them), email others within their group(s), share documents in their group and discuss any of the above (provide feedback on documents, blog entries and events etc).
– Be able to browse restricted content belonging to groups they are not a member of
– General forum for all the groups within the community
Hope that makes sense!
Wordpress won the best CMS of the year last year in some poll so perhaps I got it confused?
Based on that then yes buddyPress should be an ideal fit, it will fill all your requirements either out of the box or with the addition of a plugin here or there.
As far as I can recall WP was capable of running on different DB engines but I’d have to verify that and may be going mad, best to check the WP codex for info.
I would draw issue on whatever poll it was that referred to WordPress as a CMS it’s a blog which extends beyond that boundary and keeps extending and growing and does do a good job of accomodating static pages but apps like Drupal are more geared towards being termed a CMS imho.
yeah I think WP does support SQL Server 2008 but I am wondering if BuddyPress does?
I know the requirements for BuddyPress is an installation of WordPress but BuddyPress runs on MySQL it seems so not sure how to migrate a WP on SQL Server over to BP?
If you can get WordPress to run on a different database server, then BuddyPress should work too; I’m not aware of any non-standard SQL.
