why drupal should be more like wordpress
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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?TRANSCRIPT
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 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