Over on Henri Bergius' weblog today, he has posted a comparison between Comparing Midgard and WordPress - two of the fastest growing, most powerful PHP content management systems out there.

There has been some discussion on the Midgard IRC channel comparing Midgard CMS to the WordPress blogging system. Adam Douglas commented:

Don't get me wrong I love Midgard and I'm sure I will even more once I learn more how to do stuff but if we could just get some of it to be similar as WordPress man we would be rocking. It's so damn easy to use and install. After replying I realized we should probably explain the difference between Midgard and standalone PHP applications better.

He gives a few items to look out for when checking into a CMS inclduing: templating, premissions, performance, and multiple instances. Of course, he compares these to Midgard in an effort show the robustness of the application.

The reuslts? If only a single functionality, say blogging, is required, a tool like WordPress wins the choice easily. [...] However, if more than one set of functionality is needed, or there are plans for growth, then Midgard is a better choice.