Drupal and WordPress are the two most popular open-source content management systems. The document provides an overview and comparison of Drupal and WordPress, discussing their features including ease of use, community support, extensibility, custom content types, user roles, and more. Key differences are that Drupal typically requires more technical skills but allows for more complex, large-scale sites, while WordPress is very easy to use for small to medium sites through plugins and themes. The document aims to help libraries choose which system better fits their needs and capabilities.
Drupal is from Mars, Wordpress is from Venus: Finding your library's CMS soulmate
1. Drupal is from Mars, WordPress is from Venus: Finding your library’s CMS Soulmate Connecticut Library Association May 3, 2011 Sharon Clapp Polly-Alida Farrington
9. Content Management System A web content management system (WCMS) is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. A robust WCMS provides the foundation for collaboration, offering users the ability to manage documents and output for multiple author editing and participation. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system
83. Became part of Drupal 7’s “core” functionality (as “fields)
84. Many things we put on the web aren’t “pages” as much as they are listings of information
85. If we could take that information apart, then we could reassemble it and combine it with other information more easily
86.
87. 1 big list = 1 new or retired employee, you have to retype the whole list (web equivalent = 1 web page)
88. 1 entry for each staff member means that all you have to do is add a record or delete one (Drupal equivalent = custom content type “staffmember”)
89. The list is dynamically assembled (in Drupal, the Views contrib module allows you to display information however you want)
90. Custom Content Types can have different characteristics, different categories applied to them (taxonomies in Drupal)