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Phill Brown
September 29, 2011
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Drupal vs WordPress
Talk at Drupal North East 28-09-2011
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September 29, 2011
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Transcript
Drupal vs WordPress The ultimate CMS showdown!
SAME OLD STUFF • Function based PHP5 • Open source
/ GPL • Acquia / Automattic • Drupal Gardens / WordPress.com • Multi‐site • Unpronounceable surnames
JARGON Drupal WordPress Nodes Posts Content types Post types Blocks
Widgets Regions Sidebars Modules Plugins
USAGE Drupal WordPress Websites 500,000 4,500,000 Market share (overall) 6.2%
54.3% Market share (top 10k) 2.6% 5.3%
COMMUNITY
FORUM ACTIVITY 996,313 posts 673,485 users 1.48 posts/user
FORUM ACTIVITY 2,280,217 posts 4,500,000 users (approx) 0.50 posts/user
DRUPALCON • Twice a year • Mixed locations • 1750
attendees DrupalCon London
WORDCAMP • Once a year • Official event held in
San Francisco • 1000 attendees in 2011
RELEASES 08 December 2010 27 January 2011 18 March 2011
07 May 2011 26 June 2011 15 August 2011 Drupal 7 WordPress 3
PLUGINS 16,422
MODULES 8,689
MODULES/PLUGINS Drupal WordPress Views N/A Token Shortcode (core) CCK/fields More
fields Pathauto Core Core More types Core More taxonomies Meta tags WordPress SEO Ubercart/Drupal Commerce WP Commerce
PERFORMANCE Drupal WordPress Back end 0.6 0.7 Front end 2.0
1.5
WHAT’S GOOD... Drupal • Site building configuration • Flexibility •
Low supply, high demand • Modules • Code quality • Clean core WordPress • Content editing • Usability • Huge developer community • Documentation • Design quality • Core functionality
WHAT’S BAD... Drupal • Asset/media manager • Documentation • WYSIWYG
• ‘Polished’ modules WordPress • Login API • Views • Page structuring • Core content structuring
BEST FOR... • Larger‐scale web apps • Integrating with other
systems • Multi‐role sites
BEST FOR... • Brochure sites • Blogs • Small shops
DRUPAL IS
WORDPRESS IS...
ANY QUESTIONS? @Phill_Brown