Wordpress has a "sticky"

greg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:15:04 +0000

Wordpress has a "sticky" option sounding similar to how you described the Drupal one.

Stickied posts go to the front page.

Hello, welcome to the

Megan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:59:24 +0000

Hello, welcome to the forums!

Which way to go really depends on what else you have in mind for the site. Do you want to keep it as a simple news site? Or do you want to add more features and functionality in the future?

For simple needs Wordpress might be a good choice. THere is tons of information available about how to customize it for your needs. I've seen lots of sites do something similar to what you're describing using Wordpress.

For more complexity down the road, a more comprehensive CMS like Drupal would be a good choice. There you have tons of options for more functionality and can pick and choose the features that suit your site. There is also lots of information and free themes available, although it can be more difficult to sort through it all and figure out how to do what you want.

The ability to give some stories more preference than others is built-in to Drupal (either by making a post "sticky at top of lists" or "promoted to the front page")... You can then use a module called "views" to display that information any way you choose. I'm not sure how you would do this with Wordpress.