More Related Content Similar to Drupal vs WordPress (20) More from Phill Brown (6) Drupal vs WordPress2. SAME OLD STUFF
• Function based PHP5
• Open source / GPL
• Acquia / Automattic
• Drupal Gardens / WordPress.com
• Multi‐site
• Unpronounceable surnames
3. JARGON
Drupal WordPress
Nodes Posts
Content types Post types
Blocks Widgets
Regions Sidebars
Modules Plugins
4. USAGE
Drupal WordPress
Websites 500,000 4,500,000
Market share (overall) 6.2% 54.3%
Market share (top 10k) 2.6% 5.3%
7. FORUM ACTIVITY
2,280,217 posts
4,500,000 users (approx)
0.50 posts/user
10. RELEASES
15 August 2011
26 June 2011
07 May 2011
18 March 2011
27 January 2011
08 December 2010
Drupal 7
WordPress 3
13. 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
14. PERFORMANCE
Drupal WordPress
Back end 0.6 0.7
Front end 2.0 1.5
15. WHAT’S GOOD...
Drupal WordPress
• Site building configuration • Content editing
• Flexibility • Usability
• Low supply, high demand • Huge developer community
• Modules • Documentation
• Code quality • Design quality
• Clean core • Core functionality
16. WHAT’S BAD...
Drupal WordPress
• Asset/media manager • Login API
• Documentation • Views
• WYSIWYG • Page structuring
• ‘Polished’ modules • Core content structuring
17. BEST FOR...
• Larger‐scale web apps
• Integrating with other systems
• Multi‐role sites
Editor's Notes Who’s a Drupal/WordPress developer? Hands and shouts Not OOPXHTML Websites – http://trends.builtwith.com/cms/topMarket share (overall) - http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/allMarket share (top 10k) - http://trends.builtwith.com/cms/top Members, Core contributors,Helpfulness, Drupal - http://drupal.org/node/3060/release?api_version[]=87WordPress - http://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/ WP Modules do the same thing Hello world, Bartek/2011 themes which includes1 block/widget, Logged out, After caching Out the box themesMultiple ways to solve a problem in Drupal Interoperates with other systems,Flexiblity Out the box – brilliant. The more you try and do, the harder it becomes Boy-racer car