I’ve been pondering the idea of upgrading some of my forums to the latest version of vBulletin, but what has held me back is the fact that upgrading vBulletin is a huge pain.
What I love so much about Wordpress is that it’s so easy to upgrade and manage plugins. I remember when I first started blogging and I held off on upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress because I was concerned about how difficult the process was going to be. To my surprise it was very easy and I’ve never had any issue during the upgrade process for the past 17+ months I’ve been blogging.
On the flip side, over the past three years of administering and managing vBulletin forums I’ve had numerous problems dealing with the vBulletin software than with Wordpress. In particular the most time consuming task is working with old modifications that need to be upgrading after moving up to a new version of vBulletin. The settings on vBulletin plugins also frequently need adjustment after upgrading. In my opinion the time consumed while dealing with all apects of the vBulletin upgrade process has been much greater than with the Wordpress upgrade process.
What do you think forum admins / bloggers? Have you found vBulletin more difficult to deal with than Wordpress?
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Agree 100% with you! vBulletin is a pain to upgrade and modify! Wordpress is easy and smooth!
Chris ~ Working with vBulletin is definitely an exercise in patience and often leads to mind numbing headaches. I’ve been working on a customized skin for a forum I’m building at work and it’s definitely not the easiest thing in the world to do. Once you’ve gotten an idea of how things work it does progress a little bit quicker, but in no way is it nearly as user friendly as WordPress.
However, they’re completely different animals and you can’t really compare the two since vBulletin is such a robust system.
Yah, I understand what you’re saying Bryan. I guess where I believe I’d like to see some strides on the vBulletin front is in the usability (from an installation and plugin management focus).
Perhaps things are better with vB 3.7x though
I have to say hands down wp blows away vbulletin as far as reliability and ease of use for the webmasters.
It would be very nice to see a mod or plugin or a hacked up version of wp that was secure and solid like vbulletin for a forum. Who knows.
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