http://themeshaper.com/thematic/
http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid
http://carringtontheme.com/

http://themeshaper.com/thematic/
http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid
http://carringtontheme.com/

it's possible to use a plugin called "custom field template" that gives the ability to store some kind of metadata, retrivable via wordpress functions (get_post_meta). You can manually build some template pages that extract only the meta-data that fit the content type request. I'm stuck on wordpress admin manipulation in order to have different sets of "custom fields" to complete the need

please let me know if you got something on this subject

1. I don't think you quite understand the difference between a multi-blogger community and a blog with multiple users. WordPress is only good for the latter. WordPress MU is good for the former.

2. Automated image galleries is not the same as context-sensitive resizing of images. Both Drupal and WordPress have automated image galleries. However, only Drupal has context-sensitive resizing. You probably could do it in WordPress if you took the time to code but it still wouldn't be integrated in a SQL query builder like it can be done in Drupal. Drupal is a couple of intuitive leaps ahead of WordPress on this issue.

3. I strongly urge you to do an install of Drupal 6 and play around with CCK and Views. It will blow your mind.

4. Hmm I can't really evaluate this plugin as much of the homepage for it is in Japanese. However, the "some coding is required" issue is a problem for many nonprofits. They don't have custom coding resources.

6. Custom excerpts in WordPress are nice but that assumes users are going to write them in. Drupal does not. You don't have to ask bloggers to write a custom excerpt. Drupal (most of the time) just figures it out.

8. I doubt you could do a magazine layout in the context of a multi-user blogging community with WordPress alone. You would need WordPress MU and then you'd have to check if your custom plugins work properly with WPMU. That's a big issue. If you ever do a migration from WP to WPMU — come back here and tell how many of your plugins survived the migration.

please forgive my simpleness, i'll try to reply anyway:

1: still don't get it. WordPress has users with different privileges. you don't need to get to MU for that feat. If you need a multiple blog software that's MU.

2: from 2.6 you can insert an automated image gallery. That's not the state of the art, but it's an alternative to manual thumb insertion.

3: sorry for me even writing custom php is out of question. I simply install plugins and themes… (i'm not that cool)

4: I get it: you can do it using "custom fields template plugin" and building page templates. Then when you'll create a new page you can choose the template page that you need. (some coding is required here, i asked a friend)

5: we agree

6: this is true in most cases. anyway you can set up custom excerpts display and with a minimum of editing formatting you'll get to nice results (example: image must be at the beginning of the post it's enough to build custom homepage views for the posts)

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8: understand. agree. i'm doing what you describe with newsletter plugin, comments plugin, custom user management plugins and so on. (but never wrote a line of code, i think that's a plus)

Embedded media field does this pretty easily: http://drupal.org/project/emfield

Just put in the url of a video or audio hosted on dozens of service providers (ie youtube, hulu and the like).