Wordpress or move to another CMS?

Hi, I am looking to take my site to the next level. Currently, my site is backed by Wordpress as CMS so it functions as a blog, but the next step is to become a Market Intelligence website.

Since the website is about a Niche in finance and financial markets, I am looking to add databases of fund performance, company profiles, and research papers. Furthermore, as the site grows in popularity, and demand for certain features and services grows,

Since I am not an expert in programming and IT, but proficient in finance, I am looking for advice. My question is:

-Should I continue with Wordpress. Will Wordpress allow programmers that I hire in the future be able to work on different complex features using APIs from Bloomberg for exemple?

-If not, what kind of platform should I use?

Thank you for your input.

WordPress is a great platform and unless you have a large budget, it’s worth sticking with.

You can modify WP almost however you like, but it is definitely not the best for all purposes (there is no universal solution), porting to custom made platform shouldn’t be too expensive.

I’d go with Joomla, I use to be a wordpress nut, but here recently it has been letting me down. I feel Joomla is way more powerful and lets face the facts, It’s an actual Content Management System. Wordpress was built for bloggers.

xstortionist said
I’d go with Joomla, I use to be a wordpress nut, but here recently it has been letting me down. I feel Joomla is way more powerful and lets face the facts, It’s an actual Content Management System. Wordpress was built for bloggers.

The ‘built for bloggers’ days are a thing of a past. Why exactly wouldn’t it be a CMS ? You use it to manage content, so it’s a CMS

Don’t know about you, but everything I tried doing with WP, I succeeded. Not saying that it can do anything, but I’ve yet to see something that can’t be done with WP.

I think it’s just a matter of being used to a particular environment. That’s why we have WP, Joomla, EE and so on

digitalimpact said

xstortionist said
I’d go with Joomla, I use to be a wordpress nut, but here recently it has been letting me down. I feel Joomla is way more powerful and lets face the facts, It’s an actual Content Management System. Wordpress was built for bloggers.

The ‘built for bloggers’ days are a thing of a past. Why exactly wouldn’t it be a CMS ? You use it to manage content, so it’s a CMS

Don’t know about you, but everything I tried doing with WP, I succeeded. Not saying that it can do anything, but I’ve yet to see something that can’t be done with WP.

I think it’s just a matter of being used to a particular environment. That’s why we have WP, Joomla, EE and so on

People have their opinions. I just know I have built enough sites to see the difference between quality and longevity.

I guess it really just depends on what you are comfortable with and what you are going for in the long haul.

My biggest issue with wordpress sites, is when I have a client that wants different widgets on different pages, I have to use the widget logic plugin that uses conditional tags in order to display different widgets on different pages. My clients are like “huh” they never get how it works and a lot of the times they end up breaking the site because they know nothing with PHP .

That be my biggest issue really… that and the amount of spam wordpress sites attract.

If you’re thinking the site might grow rather large in the future and you need great scalability I would look at using Django, its an awesome framework.

You could also try http://pyrocms.com Modular, extendable and pretty much capable of anything you can throw at it!

Scott