Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Video: Drupal vs. WordPress. Presentation given at LUGRadio Live USA, 2008. San Francisco, CA
This weekend Selena and I spoke at the charming and hospitable LUG Radio Live USA, in San Francisco, CA. The topic was Choosing between Drupal and WordPress. It was very civil. A few people have asked for the video of our presentation, so I've uploaded it above with a Flash embed. More ambitious full-on video file to come later.
This weekend Selena and I spoke at the charming and hospitable LUG Radio Live USA, in San Francisco, CA. The topic was Choosing between Drupal and WordPress. It was very civil. A few people have asked for the video of our presentation, so I've uploaded it above with a Flash embed. More ambitious full-on video file to come later.
Labels: cms, drupal, lug radio live, lugradio, lugradiolive, lugradiolive2008, open source, usability, wordpress
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I want to build a larger community, but it seems like a really big step to go from WP to Drupal, maybe I'm dreaming.
WP is almost too easy to use:
1. Check for new sidebar widgets
2. Write
3. Publish
"No support requests here!" - if my site ever breaks, that's not the type of community I want to turn to when I'm on my knees begging for help.
Writing lots of content in Wordpress and waiting for bbPress to mature seems like the best thing to do... Automattic just got a cool 30 million in venture capital, bbPress should be really good soon, right?
I'll keep crying myself to sleep while I wait for something terrible to go wrong and force me over to Drupal.
Great presentation. I mean that. There were no bullets that I can recall, less than 10 words on each slide, and illustrations. Fantastic, really.
:)
WP is almost too easy to use:
1. Check for new sidebar widgets
2. Write
3. Publish
"No support requests here!" - if my site ever breaks, that's not the type of community I want to turn to when I'm on my knees begging for help.
Writing lots of content in Wordpress and waiting for bbPress to mature seems like the best thing to do... Automattic just got a cool 30 million in venture capital, bbPress should be really good soon, right?
I'll keep crying myself to sleep while I wait for something terrible to go wrong and force me over to Drupal.
Great presentation. I mean that. There were no bullets that I can recall, less than 10 words on each slide, and illustrations. Fantastic, really.
:)
Cool presentation. One comment about the search feature on drupal.org:
This is restricted because search is about the most massive resource hog in all of Drupal. In busy times, drupal.org had to disable search entirely so that the site doesn't collapse.
So while your analysis might be correct for Drupal at large, I'm sure that locking out the "pure user community" wasn't the intention behind disabling the search feature for anonymous users.
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This is restricted because search is about the most massive resource hog in all of Drupal. In busy times, drupal.org had to disable search entirely so that the site doesn't collapse.
So while your analysis might be correct for Drupal at large, I'm sure that locking out the "pure user community" wasn't the intention behind disabling the search feature for anonymous users.
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