Drupal and WordPress are the two most popular open-source content management systems. The document provides an overview and comparison of Drupal and WordPress, discussing their features including ease of use, community support, extensibility, custom content types, user roles, and more. Key differences are that Drupal typically requires more technical skills but allows for more complex, large-scale sites, while WordPress is very easy to use for small to medium sites through plugins and themes. The document aims to help libraries choose which system better fits their needs and capabilities.

1. Drupal is from Mars, WordPress is from Venus: Finding your library’s CMS Soulmate Connecticut Library Association May 3, 2011 Sharon Clapp Polly-Alida Farrington

3. Overview

5. What open source software is (& why it’s best)

6. Comparison of Wordpress & Drupal

7. Currently, the 2 most popular open-source web CMS’

9. Content Management System A web content management system (WCMS) is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. A robust WCMS provides the foundation for collaboration, offering users the ability to manage documents and output for multiple author editing and participation. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

10. www.flickr.com/photos/subcircle/500995147/ Open Source is Unlocked

11. www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/170691672 Open Source is Community

12. Some WordPress Examples

17. Some Drupal Examples

18. WhiteHouse.Gov

22. A quick look inside WordPress

25. A quick look inside Drupal

26. Drupal Gardens Example: D7

29. Running Drupal & WordPress

32. WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack ok, not great

34. WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) ok

36. Best solution = find a good "Drupal-friendly" host or a "Virtual private server"

39. Easiest to run "local stack" on your own computer

40. Download DAMP stack installer (Drupal, Apache, MySQL, PHP) from Acquia - Win/Mac/Linux OS

43. Themes in WordPress

45. Themes in Drupal: http://drupal.org/project/themes

47. Base Theme: Superstars = Zen, Fusion, AdaptiveThemes, 960

48. Comparing Features

55. Requires Plugins

56. Examples

57. WP Touch

61. Spam filtering

63. Date module

64. GCal Events / Agenda modules

65. Evanced integration module

66. Ubercart integration

68. Many options via plugins

69. The Events Calendar (free)

71. Better support via plugins

72. Contact Forms 7 (Free)

76. WordPress: Custom Menus in 3.0

77. http://www.mobiledrupal.com/content/overview-mobile-modules-drupal

78. Drupal: Navigation by Menus

79. Drupal: Navigation by Taxonomy (Categories)

80. Compare: Custom Content Types

82. CCK contributed module = “Content Construction Kit”

83. Became part of Drupal 7’s “core” functionality (as “fields)

84. Many things we put on the web aren’t “pages” as much as they are listings of information

85. If we could take that information apart, then we could reassemble it and combine it with other information more easily

87. 1 big list = 1 new or retired employee, you have to retype the whole list (web equivalent = 1 web page)

88. 1 entry for each staff member means that all you have to do is add a record or delete one (Drupal equivalent = custom content type “staffmember”)

89. The list is dynamically assembled (in Drupal, the Views contrib module allows you to display information however you want)

90. Custom Content Types can have different characteristics, different categories applied to them (taxonomies in Drupal)

92. Drupal - Custom Content Types

93. Compare: Managing User Roles

95. Admin, Editors, Authors & Contributors

97. Create & control groups of user

99. Allow roles to do various functions (very granular)

102. Thank you! polly@pafa.net Sharon.clapp@ct.gov