Which CMS is best for these needs

Hi, I'm not interested in the best CMS, just which one will fit these parameters best. I'm comfortable with wordpress, fairly comfortable with joomla (a 2 day intro), and have a love hate relationship with drupal, as in hate it do to my lack of patience for the learning curve.

Here's the main site needs.

Magazine style multi author blog with comments enabled.
forum 80%public, 20% private membership
ecommerce shop selling only digital goods

The main goals are to have one login for everything on the site, estimated 100k+ user base after 3-5 yrs.

I'll take care of having my servers meet the requirements. I'm starting on a shared server and just going to upgrade as the site grows.

I'm interested in both wordpress and joomla at this point and don't mind putting in the hours for a good portion.

Your thoughts on what setups would fit these needs best are very much appreciated.

 

I forgot, the goal is to have the magazine section up first, then the ecommerce shop and forums up within 3-6 months if the minimum visitor target goals are hit.

 

Wordpress for certain, its extendable forever basically.
There is nothing you cant do with it.

You will probably want to go with woo commerce or marketpress. Both are very sound cart plugins.

Also check out these real fast. http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-multiauthor-plugins/

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

Hi MrCollins,

According to your need, if there is one that will be Drupal. I would say Drupal CMS is best option for you.
As your needs are:

Magazine style multi author blog with comments enabled.
forum 80%public, 20% private membership
ecommerce shop selling only digital goods
have the magazine section up first,

All you above needs can be fulfilled by using Drupal.

 

Thanks for both of your inputs, I appreciate it. I actually decided to go with Joomla. I can build everything I want for only $30 and a few hours. I've spent the last few days watching lots of joomla tutorials and building a test site. It was a lot easier than I expected and much better than wordpress was. I might give drupal another go some day, but for now I'm going to set drupal on the side.

 

Both Joomla and Wordpress can be used for this project, but I believe you could go an extra mile with Wordpress as I built something nearly close to that in the past.

 

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worpress is best..

 

Sir surely you use wordpress as you can make your homepage good using visual composer and use bb press for forum section.

 

Just out of curiosity, what are you referring to when you say Joomla was "much better than Wordpress was?"

Reading your site requirements, to me, WordPress seemed like an obvious choice.

Glad to hear your project has turned out so well!

 

I recommend Wordpress too, it definitely meets your requirement and it will be good for SEO too. You will many cool themes for Magazine style website or blog.