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Drupal vs WordPress Smackdown!

posted on June 5, 2018

Alisa Herr + Ruby Sinreich

Filed Under: DYO 2018

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  1. Andrew Hunt says

    June 5, 2018 at 4:01 pm

    Notes from the session

    Ruby Sinreich – currently a Drupal developer, but has had jobs working with WordPress, and her er

    Alisa Herr – developer with WordPress, has used both but is a Drupal skeptic and likes to move people off Drupal

    Alisa looking to find ways to defend Drupal–she can’t come up with reasons to use Drupal now.

    Drupal has a Drupal way of doing things – need to accommodate that rather than try to do it yourself

    The two CMSes have been converging in what they do

    Round 1: getting started

    Getting a site up and running, WP is easier. “5-minute install”

    Round 2: blogging and commenting

    WP started as blogging platform, Drupal started as forum software

    Both like using Disqus as a way to outsource comment management and commenter authentication

    Both PHP-based software, (typically) MySQL databases.

    Basically a tie: commenting features are equivalent.

    Round 3: SEO

    Drupal themes come with semantic markup out of the box. WP markup depends upon the theme more heavily.

    Variety of SEO plugins for WP, some single-purpose, others for whole suite. Drupal is largely better out of the box.

    Round 4: Commerce

    WP: WooCommerce now owned by Automattic, has improved over time.

    Drupal: two options, Drupal Commerce, Ubercart

    If you’re just doing a store, you might use something else

    Round 5: Customizing appearance

    Drupal 8 now uses Twig as the templating engine, Ruby hasn’t worked with it yet. D7 uses PHPTemplate.

    WordPress core and plugins generate markup directly

    WP has “customizer” that allows configuration of many things through the UI with a frontend preview. Drupal allows many of the same things to be accomplished, but not as user-friendly.

    Both CMSes have child themes: you can use a base theme and then tweak it

    New directions: people using “headless” WP or Drupal to get data from API and render it using Javascript or something else.

    Summary: Drupal has more sophisticated theming but WP is easier for a site admin to make smaler changes

    Round 6: Building online community

    Again, WP started as blogging platform, Drupal started as forum software

    Drupal is much more flexible for assigning user fields, roles, displays.

    WP has plugins that allow defining roles and granting capabilities, but it’s available in Drupal out of the box

    Round 7: Data driven applications

    Both allow defining custom content types

    Drupal has Views module that allows display of nearly any combination of data

    Exposed filters: ability for visitors to filter on the fly
    Views Bulk Operations: module allows doing things to entities appearing in a view

    Facet WP plugin: frontend faceted filtering

    Round 8: User experience

    WP generally has an easier-to-understand user experience

    WP media library is very helpful for

    Round 9: Hosting and servers

    Same basics: LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), or both work with Nginx instead of Apache.

    Some specialized hosts: Acquia, Pantheon, WPEngine

    Managed hosts do some things for you but also prevent you from doing some things: what makes it work better can add limitations

    Round 10: Community

    Both have large conferences, extensive websites

    DrupalCamps and WordCamps all around the world.

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