Showing posts with label drupal vs joomla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drupal vs joomla. Show all posts

Saturday, December 10, 2011

49. Compare Joomla and Drupal Terminology

  1. Joomla Template is called Theme in Drupal.
  2. Component = Module.
  3. Module = Block.
  4. Mambot/Plugin = Input filter.
  5. Menu-Horizontal = Primary Links
  6. Menu-Vertical = Navigation
  7. Dynamic Content Item = Story
  8. Static Content = Page
  9. Back-end = there is no back-end in Drupal,
  10. SEF = Clean URLs (but some docs refer to SEF, too).
  11. Section = Taxonomy Vocabulary/Term
  12. Section Title = Taxonomy Term (master)
  13. Category = Taxonomy Term (child)
  14. Introtext = Teaser
  15. Maintext = Body (see explanation below)
  16. Pathway = Breadcrumb

Other terms are the same, such as: forum discussion, editor, search, region, comment, subject/title, preview, html tag, view, edit, advertising/banner, log in/log out, profile, avatar, access control, logs, cache, site maintenance, RSS feed, parent-child and snippets.

47. What are the technical differences between Joomla and Drupal -

  1. Joomla only supports one Section and one Category for each content, while you can assign Drupal contents to several Sections/Categories.
  2. Joomla does not support multi-site setups, whereas drupal supports multisite setups.
  3. Drupal has built-in forum discussion, so you don't need to install additional modules.
  4. The term Blog in Joomla is not same as blog in Internet dictionary. 'Blog' term in Joomla is actually a teaser view of contents containing: Title, Introduction and a Read More link. So, in short, 'Blog' in Joomla terminology is not 'Weblog'! If one is asking if Joomla supports a 'Blog' by default, then the answer is yes, but with a different meaning.
  5. Comments on contents are not available in Joomla by default, but Drupal supports comments for all content-types by default.