A no-holds barred trash-talkin' smackdown between WordPress and Drupal. I was in the WordPress corner and James Schumann was in the Drupal corner as we duked it out, had some fun and compared two of the most popular open source CMS platforms available.

1. Drupal vs.
WordPress
Smackdown
kwdm – oct 21
@jschumann
@seanyo
vs

2. In the Drupal Corner
James Schumann
@jschumann

3. In the WordPress
Corner
Sean Yo

4. WTF is a Drupal?

5. Wordpress has 11, 706
Plug-Ins...
Just like your Mom...

6. Wordpress developers
are hipster, scriptkiddie
douchebags

7. Drupal developers are
sad, lonely virgins

8. Srsly...
WTF is a Drupal?

9. WP has a 98%
marketshare of
social media
douchebags

10. Wordpress can be
installed in less than 5
minutes…
…Drupal can be installed
by as few as 5 people

11. Dear WordPress, code is
allowed to not suck.
Your theme code makes
me throw up in my
mouth.

12. Dear Drupal, websites are
allowed to look good.
Your themes make me throw
up in my mouth.

13. Themes are code, not pictures. If
you want pretty themes, learn to
code a theme.
Patches welcome.
Tracer.

14. Wordpress developers
have girlfirends

15. Drupal developers have jobs

16. No. Rly.
WTF IS A DRUPAL!?

17. Wordpress is a Personal
Publishing Platform

18. Drupal is a Content
Management Framework

19. WordPress is becoming an
Enterprise CMS

20. Drupal is becoming a Web
Application Platform

21. Custom Content

22. Theming

24. Ease of Use

25. Usefulness

26. Simplicity

27. Ease of Hacking

28. Awesome Deployment Tools

29. Wicked Flexability

30. Blogging

31. Community Sites

32. Updating

33. Custom Content Mashups

34. Out Of The Box Ready

35. Centralized Stuff

36. Open Source

37. Awesome Community

38. Well Designed

39. Coding Standards

41. Will make your life
better

42. Has more developers
than you

43. You are not a beautiful and
unique snowflake

44. Lets Web Devs develop
the web

45. Lets Content Devs
develop content

46. Drupal = Unix
Flexibile, Powerful,
Complex

47. QP = OSX
Simplified,
Standardized, Pretty

48. DrupalCon CPH:
WordPress is Better Than Drupal
http://slidesha.re/wpIsBetterThanDrupal

49. When to use Drupal
•User Community
•Custom Content
•App Development
•Blog/Content per User

50. When to use Wordpress
•Out-of-the-box Ready
•Access to lots of themes
•Standard CMS usecase
•Content by team of authors

51. http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2010/10/13/wordpress-and-drupal-convergence
CMS Nirvana
EaseOfUse
Architecture