Notes
Comparisons, costs and practical notes on content management systems, forums and the tools around them.
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Claude vs ChatGPT
Claude and ChatGPT are the two most widely used general-purpose AI assistants, and for everyday questions either will do. The differences show up in specific work: Claude is often preferred…
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vBulletin: what it does well and badly
vBulletin is one of the oldest commercial forum platforms still on sale. Its strengths are a mature feature set, full ownership of your data, and a one-off licence rather than…
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Joomla: the pros and cons
Joomla sits between WordPress and Drupal: more built-in structure than WordPress, less developer effort than Drupal. Its strengths are multilingual support, access control, and a flexible content system that come…
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Drupal vs WordPress: what each one costs
Drupal and WordPress are both free, open source, and licensed under the GPL, so neither charges for the software. The price gap people talk about, sometimes framed as twenty thousand…
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What it costs to run a Joomla website
Joomla itself is free: it is open source software released under the GPL, and there is no licence fee to download, install, or run it. What costs money is everything…
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Eight ways to write content people actually read
Most content on a CMS-powered site is published, indexed, and then ignored. The pieces that get read, bookmarked, and linked to tend to share a handful of habits: they answer…
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Moving from Wix to WordPress
Wix AI (Wix’s built-in AI site builder and text generator) creates a site that lives entirely inside Wix’s proprietary system, and there is no direct export path from it to…
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Moving off Webnode
To log in to Webnode, go to webnode.com, click “Log in” in the top right, and enter the email and password you used to sign up. If you built your…
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Moving from phpBB to bbPress
phpBB is standalone forum software; bbPress is a forum plugin built to run inside WordPress. If you’re moving a board from phpBB into bbPress, you’re not doing a like-for-like swap…
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phpBB: what it does well and badly
phpBB is free, open-source forum software that has been around since 2000. It’s stable, well-documented, and still one of the most widely used forum platforms, but its admin interface feels…