What membership script - Or wordpress?

[Rick Olsen]

I'm building a membership site. I own the Butterfly Marketing script and Simple Member Pro. I want the following:

A private forum
The ability for members to upload pictures, videos and articles
Links and ad pages
A download section
A Recommends and/or Bonus section

Which script would best suit this plan? Wordpress or Joomla?

Thank you for any response.

[wade_watson]

With WordPress, I thing you'll be lucky to have only the simplest forum.Type "forum" and a few other keywords in the WP plugin search box here (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/) to see what your options are. I haven't used Joomla, but from what I've heard, it could manage such a site. Just be ready for a lot more code tinkering and setup hassles than you'd have with a WordPress site.

[Rick Olsen]

I need a membership manager that integrates with aweber so I can use aweber for the mailing list. I don't think hostgator would let me mail to the number of members I'm planning for.

[Rick Olsen]

Thanks Quint. I'm setting up Joomla. Then I just have to learn how to use it.