I’ve just joined WindowFarms and the local group for my home town. I have some experience with developing sites using WordPress, and I noticed some issues with the registration process that I might be able to help with.

I see that there was a burst of activity in this group about 18 months ago, but I haven’t yet discovered where to find more recent discussions. Who should I be getting in touch with ?

Hey there! Excited to be getting involved in Window Farms. The request for help on the front page along with the mysterious appearance of ”drupal” in the URL for this group caught my eye.

With the utmost respect and deference, my humble opinion is that this site would be much better suited to Drupal than Wordpress/Buddypress. Drupal is a much more mature platform than Buddypress, and is far more flexible/extensible. I feel the site could quickly and easily benefit from additional features (i.e. the maps mentioned in the forums of this group) and a cleaner layout using Drupal.

Again, I do not mean the above as criticism – merely positive suggestion. I’d be more than willing to help out as much as I can with a site conversion; I have about six years of experience creating personal, small business, and internal corporate web portals/applications using Drupal. I’m afraid I don’t have tons by way of actual *programming* experience (read: typing characters into a text editor to create things from scratch), but it hasn’t come in the way of creating robust sites in the past.

A quick search of the drupal.org shows a lot of info on converting from Wordpress to Drupal. It sounds like the process is fairly reliable and effective. Several years ago I converted from b2evolution (a cousin of Wordpress) to Drupal with minimal aggravation. Just a thought though: with the evidently RAPID growth of this site, I think a potential conversion sooner rather than later would save a lot of headaches.

Anyway, just thought I’d plug in my 2¢. Regardless of the direction Window Farms takes, I’m excited to be joining the community!