The document compares Drupal and WordPress, noting that WordPress has significantly more active installations, plugins, themes, and larger community than Drupal. However, Drupal can do everything that WordPress can do plus more advanced features. The document suggests that Drupal needs to improve its usability, documentation, bundled features, and finish development work to close the gap with WordPress.

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4. Product will exceed market need. Mahalo to CH3’s @jenlampton for Drupal vs. WordPress data

5. Room for a lower-end product.

6. WordPress is that product. TWEET IT:

7. That’s a whole lot more market.

8. ait... Drupal can do everything WP can do! But

9. All things being equal , Drupal should have half that market…

10. ... plus the market for all the things Drupal can do that WordPress can’t.

11. All things aren’t equal... Drupal WordPress

12. ~50 x more Active Installations 11.8 Million 255 K

13. ~4k more plugins than modules 10,006 6,100

14. ~2 x more Themes 1,209 700

15. ~16 x larger community 20 Million 1.2 Million

16. hy ?

17. Dashboard. No set up.

18. YSIWYG. No set up.

19. Categorization. No set up.

20. hat it looks like

21. Example Designs

22. hat about upgrades?

23. hat’s Drupals problem?

24. we are developers. (developers like to build things)

25. we are developers. (developers like to solve hard problems)

26. we are developers. (developers do not care about looks)

27. we are developers. (developers don’t push buttons)

28. What you get with Drupal:

29. We build things with modules.

30. Lots of modules.

31. hat you get with WordPress:

32. e can do that! = + +work

33. e need to Improve Usability http://www.d7ux.org

34. e need to Document http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation

35. e need to Bundle. http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles http://groups.drupal.org/distributions http://drupal.org/node/647374

36. e need to Finish our Work “ It Works” is not enough anymore.

37. e need to keep talking. #drupal-usability #drupal-docs Mahalo to CH3’s @jenlampton for Drupal vs. WordPress data

38. Get Social!

39. http://HawaiiKlout.com

40. Social Media Club of Hawaii http://SMCHawaii.org

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