WordPress is better than

Drupal

by Jen Lampton, Chapter Three LLC

I <3Coding.

Helping.

Training.

I like you guys too!

Organizer:

Regular: g.d.o/berkeleyg.d.o/bay-area

Speaker:DCCO, DCSF, PNWDS, D4D

, DCCPH, DCParis, DCDC, BADCAMP,

etc

I 3.0ant you to be

afraid.

Who came to SF this year?

Remember this guy?

Product will exceed market need.

Room for a lower-end product.

WordPress is that product.

That’s a whole lot more market.

ait...

Drupal can do everything WP can do!

But

All things being equal, we should have half that market...

...plus the market for all the things Drupal can do that

WordPress can’t.

All things aren’t equal...

Drupal

WordPress

~50x more Active Installations

11.8 Million

255 K

~4k more plugins than modules

10,0066,100

~2x more Themes

1,209700

~16x larger community

20 Million

1.2 Million

hy?

Dashboard. No set up.

YSIWYG. No set up.

Categorization.

No set up.

hat it looks like

hat about upgrades?

ords!

hat’s our problem?

we are developers.

(developers like to build things)

we are developers.

(developers like to solve hard problems)

we are developers.

(developers do not care about looks)

we are developers.

(developers don’t push buttons)

hat you get with Drupal:

e build things with modules.

Lots of modules, hee!

hat you get with WordPress:

e can do that!

= ++work

Let’s turn this chase around!

Drupal

WordPress

hat do we need to do?

You tell ME!

e need to Improve Usability

http://www.d7ux.org

e need to get D7 out!

http://drupal.org/node/774926

e need to Document

http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation

e need to Bundle.

http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profileshttp://groups.drupal.org/distributions

http://drupal.org/node/647374

e need to Finish our Work

“It Works” is not enough

anymore.

e need to keep talking.

#drupal-usability#drupal-docs