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Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS?

Slashdot reader pipingguy recently inherited a 2012 installation of Joomla 1.5.26, and while performing four years worth of updates, began wondering about other content management systems. I've built more than a few static websites (I use Sublime Text 3 or Atom, not some fancy-pants WYSIWYG doohickey) and am quite familiar with CSS, but databases not so much. I've been through lots of online documentation and am a bit bewildered, but I'm following the recommendations regarding backups and the like.

What are Slashdot readers' latest opinions on the three most popular CMSes -- Drupal, Joomla and WordPress? Any tips for me before I accidentally blow away the existing site and have to rebuild everything...?

Leave your educated opinions in the comments...

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  1. Re:What's the best fruit by plopez · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean you can't write a script to scrape the website and parse and compare them using a scripting language of your choice? You need to find a different line of work,

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