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WordPress is better than Drupal by Jen Lampton, Chapter Three LLC

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WordPress gets some very important things right, and their hold on this market is proof. There are 11.4 million active installations of WordPress software, compared to only hundreds of thousands of Drupal installations. We need to get our act together, raise our standards, and lower the barrier to entry. Come join me in talking about what this community needs to do to ensure its survival. What should we really be focusing on in Drupal Core for D8? What should you do with your own modules to prevent our CMS from being abandoned in favor of something else?

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WordPress is better than

Drupal

by Jen Lampton, Chapter Three LLC

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I <3Coding.

Helping.

Training.

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I 3.0ant you to be

afraid.

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Who came to SF this year?

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Remember this guy?

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Product will exceed market need.

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Room for a lower-end product.

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WordPress is that product.

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That’s a whole lot more market.

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ait...

Drupal can do everything WP can do!

But

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

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

WordPress can’t.

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All things aren’t equal...

Drupal

WordPress

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~50x more Active Installations

11.8 Million

255 K

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~4k more plugins than modules

10,0066,100

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~2x more Themes

1,209700

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~16x larger community

20 Million

1.2 Million

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hy?

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Dashboard. No set up.

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YSIWYG. No set up.

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Categorization.

No set up.

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hat it looks like

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hat about upgrades?

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ords!

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hat’s our problem?

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we are developers.

(developers like to build things)

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we are developers.

(developers like to solve hard problems)

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we are developers.

(developers do not care about looks)

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we are developers.

(developers don’t push buttons)

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hat you get with Drupal:

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e build things with modules.

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Lots of modules, hee!

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hat you get with WordPress:

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e can do that!

= ++work

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Let’s turn this chase around!

Drupal

WordPress

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hat do we need to do?

You tell ME!

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e need to Improve Usability

http://www.d7ux.org

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e need to get D7 out!

http://drupal.org/node/774926

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e need to Document

http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation

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e need to Bundle.

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

http://drupal.org/node/647374

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e need to Finish our Work

“It Works” is not enough

anymore.

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e need to keep talking.

#drupal-usability#drupal-docs