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Drupal is from Mars, WordPress is from Venus: Finding your library’s CMS Soulmate<br />Connecticut Library Association<br />May 3, 2011<br />Sharon Clapp<br />Polly-Alida Farrington<br />

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Overview<br />

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What We Hope to Cover<br /><ul><li> What a web content management system is (& why your library can’t live without it)

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What open source software is (& why it’s best)

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Comparison of Wordpress & Drupal

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Currently, the 2 most popular open-source web CMS’

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Help in making decisions about which to choose</li></li></ul><li>Content Management System<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/atibens/4578260998/<br />

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Content Management System<br />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.<br />- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system<br />

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www.flickr.com/photos/subcircle/500995147/<br />Open Source is Unlocked<br />

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www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/170691672<br />Open Source is Community<br />

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Some WordPress Examples<br />

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Some Drupal Examples<br />

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WhiteHouse.Gov<br />

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A quick look inside WordPress<br />

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A quick look inside Drupal<br />

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Drupal Gardens Example: D7<br />

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Running Drupal & WordPress<br />

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“Out of the box” Hosted Versions<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>DrupalGardens.com</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>WordPress.com

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EduBlogs.org</li></li></ul><li>On your own in-house server <br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) "stack“ preferred

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WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack ok, not great

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WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP) doable, but a lot of extra work</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack preferred

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WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) ok

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WIMP doable, not ideal</li></li></ul><li>Commercial Hosting <br />Drupal<br /><ul><li>Available on many general shared commercial hosts, if using lots of modules (=memory), can run into problems

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Best solution = find a good "Drupal-friendly" host or a "Virtual private server"

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try Acquia, Hot Drupal, ANHosting, check Drupal.org forums)</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Available on many shared hosts

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Library-specific: LISHost </li></li></ul><li>Sandbox Site <br />Drupal<br /><ul><li>A good idea for Drupal learning/training, testing modules, etc.

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Easiest to run "local stack" on your own computer

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Download DAMP stack installer (Drupal, Apache, MySQL, PHP) from Acquia - Win/Mac/Linux OS

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WebEnabled.com</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Usually not needed

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WebEnabled.com – free test site for 1 month</li></li></ul><li>Compare: Themes<br />

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Themes in WordPress<br />

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Themes in Drupal: http://drupal.org/project/themes<br />

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Base Theme: Superstars = Zen, Fusion, AdaptiveThemes, 960<br />

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Comparing Features<br />

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Out of the box easy?<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>No

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Exceptions: Drupal Gardens.com, "Drupal distributions" like OpenPublic </li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Very easy

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Installs with some sample content to help novice get started.</li></li></ul><li>Community & Getting Help<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Community - Excellent

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Getting Help - Good</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Community – Excellent

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Getting Help - Good</li></li></ul><li>Size & Scope of Site<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Can run very large & complex sites</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Easy to run small to medium sized sites</li></li></ul><li>Accessibility (Section 508-compliantHandicapped accessible)<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Good - depending on modules, themes & how you add content</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Depends on modules, themes & how you add content

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Admin interface – plugins to make it accessible.</li></li></ul><li>Mobile Friendly<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Excellent</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Excellent

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Requires Plugins

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Examples

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WP Touch

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Mobile Press</li></li></ul><li>Extensible? Integration with other systems?<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Unlimited extensibility

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Excellent integration with other systems</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Extensible with plugins

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Not as easy to integrate with other systems</li></li></ul><li>Comments<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Excellent</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Flexible control

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Spam filtering

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Blocking by IP, email, language, etc. </li></li></ul><li>Events Calendars<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Lots of options

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Date module

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GCal Events / Agenda modules

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Evanced integration module

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Ubercart integration

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Whole conference website distribution (COD)</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Not included in core

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Many options via plugins

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The Events Calendar (free)

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Event Espresso (free & fee)</li></li></ul><li>Web Forms<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Webforms = any type of form you want to do</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Can construct basic HTML forms

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Better support via plugins

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Contact Forms 7 (Free)

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Gravity Forms (Fee) </li></li></ul><li>Slideshows, Images, Galleries<br />Drupal <br /><ul><li>Many, many options

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jQuery is part of Drupal</li></ul>WordPress<br /><ul><li>Core support is ok

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Plugins provide many options</li></li></ul><li>Compare: Building Navigation<br />

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WordPress: Custom Menus in 3.0<br />

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http://www.mobiledrupal.com/content/overview-mobile-modules-drupal<br />

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Drupal: Navigation by Menus<br />

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Drupal: Navigation by Taxonomy (Categories)<br />

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Compare: Custom Content Types<br />

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Drupal - Custom Content Types<br /><ul><li>1 of the most important & powerful concepts that was developed by the Drupal community

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CCK contributed module = “Content Construction Kit”

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Became part of Drupal 7’s “core” functionality (as “fields)

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Many things we put on the web aren’t “pages” as much as they are listings of information

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If we could take that information apart, then we could reassemble it and combine it with other information more easily

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Like giving webmasters Lego blocks</li></li></ul><li>Drupal - Custom Content Types<br /><ul><li>Example: Staff Directory

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1 big list = 1 new or retired employee, you have to retype the whole list (web equivalent = 1 web page)

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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”)

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The list is dynamically assembled (in Drupal, the Views contrib module allows you to display information however you want)

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Custom Content Types can have different characteristics, different categories applied to them (taxonomies in Drupal)

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Staff members can have departmental category terms applied to them, for example</li></li></ul><li>Drupal - Custom Content Types<br />

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Drupal - Custom Content Types<br />

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Compare: Managing User Roles<br />

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WordPress – Core & Plugin<br />Core Support<br /><ul><li>Support for multiple roles

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Admin, Editors, Authors & Contributors

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Adequate for many sites</li></ul>Role Scoper (Free)<br />http://goo.gl/nmlrm<br /><ul><li>Control individual user access

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Create & control groups of user

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Highly granular permissions</li></li></ul><li>Drupal– Core<br />Core<br /><ul><li>Create whatever roles you want

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Allow roles to do various functions (very granular)

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Assign users to roles</li></ul>Add-on modules:<br /><ul><li> Control access to subsections of site via content classification or individual nodes

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Get even more sophisticated & granular for collaborative teams, publishing workflows, etc. </li></li></ul><li>Picking the right tool for the job!<br />flickr.com/photos/robinson-rhora/<br />

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Thank you!<br />polly@pafa.net<br />Sharon.clapp@ct.gov<br />