How to choose between Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress - Is there a best choice? This is the second version of the presentation. First version is located here: http://www.slideshare.net/Webnific/cms-comparisson-3850088

1. How to Choose Between Joomla, Drupal and
Wordpress - Is There a Best Choice ?
v2
@MarcoBarbosa

2. ●
Joomla! ( jumla ) means “all together” or “as a whole”' (Swahili)
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Since 2005 (2000 for mambo)
[1]
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113.836 weekly downloads
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6.944+ extensions

3. ●
MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - (link)
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TNA Wrestling (link)
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Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible
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Linux.com (link)

4. ●
English rendering of the Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop” (as in “a
water droplet”).
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Since 2001
[1]
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33,671 weekly downloads
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7.471+ extensions

5. ●
The White House (link)
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Ubuntu (link)
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Le Figaro (link)
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OpenSource.com (link)

6. ●
Official successor of b2/cafelog
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Since 2003
[1]
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983,625 weekly downloads
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13,338+ plugins

7. ●
TechCrunch (link)
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IcanHasCheezBurger (link)
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PlayStation Official Blog (link)
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NASA’s Ames Research Center (link)

9. Popularity

10. Google trends

11. Wordpress
Sweden – All Years
Joomla
Drupal

12. Wordpress
Worldwide – Past 12 months
Joomla
Drupal

13. [3]
W3techs technology survey

14. Usage
Usage and Market Share
CMS Market Share
60
55.1
50
40
30
20
13.7
10.9
10
6
2.7 1.5
0
Wordpress Joomla Drupal

15. [2]
Open Source CMS Awards

16. Hall of Fame CMS 2010
1. Wordpress
2. Drupal
3. Joomla!
Best Open Source PHP CMS 2009
1. Drupal
2. Wordpress
3. Joomla!
2008
1. Drupal
2. Joomla!, CMS Made Simple

17. The Differences

18. User point of view

19. Frontend Backend
Admin
Login
Password
LOGIN
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Template System ●
Manage Content
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Displays Content ●
Install Extensions
Drupal supports multisites installation out of the box.
Wordpress from 3.0+ (or with MU).
Joomla must extend.

20. Joomla Drupal Wordpress
Content Articles Pages & Stories Pages & Posts
Categorization Categories Taxonomy Categories & Tags
Components,
Extensions Modules & Plugins
Modules & Blocks Plugins & Widgets
Design Positions Regions Widget areas

21. Designer point of view

22. css template.css
images
Template
html com_foobar
index.php
templateDetails.xml

24. css style.css
images
page.tpl.php
Template
block.tpl.php
node.tpl.php
template.php
template.info

26. css style.css
images
functions.php
Template
home.php
index.php
page.php
header.php
footer.php

28. Developer point of view

29. Joomla Drupal Wordpress
Model-View-Controller Presentation-Abstraction- Application Program
(MVC) Control (PAC) Interface (API)
Fair Documentation Good Documentation Great Documentation
MySQL, SQLServer,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite MySQL
SQLAzure and Oracle
PHP 5.2+ PHP 5.2+ PHP 4.3+
Apache, Microsoft IIS Apache, Microsoft IIS Apache, Microsoft IIS

30. Strengths comparison

31. Joomla Drupal Wordpress
Blogging
Social Network
E-commerce
Templates
Framework
SEO
Flexibility
Resources
Community
Learning Curve

32. Wordpress
S F
I L
M E
P X
L
I
C
Joomla! I
B
I
I L
T I
Y T
Y
Drupal

33. The CMS Showdown
[4]
http://www.cmsshowdown.com
March 2009

35. Results

36. Joomla Drupal Wordpress
Total Hours 57.25 79.25 90.5
Hours spent on
15 21.75 36.5
front end
Html validation Yes No (8 errors) No (8 errors)
CSS Validation No (1 error) No (7 errors) No (21 errors)
Page weight 140K 180K 154K
Lines of custom
30 220 1,808
JS/PHP code

37. Joomla Drupal Wordpress
Total Hours 57.25 79.25 90.5
Hours spent on
15 21.75 36.5
front end
Html validation Yes No (8 errors) No (8 errors)
CSS Validation No (1 error) No (7 errors) No (21 errors)
Page weight 140K 180K 154K
Lines of custom
30 220 1,808
JS/PHP code

38. So..Is there a best choice?

39. Or, it's just a matter of taste

40. If a CMS would be a celebrity..

41. Wordpress
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Very Popular.
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Suitable for anyone.
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Stylish.

43. Joomla
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Large variety of extensions
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Great core as a starting point
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Could use some UX improvements

44. Linus Torvalds

45. Drupal
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Drupal knows best.
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Deeper learning curve.
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No problems it can't solve.

46. Dr. House

47. Thank you!
iam@marcobarbosa.com
marcobarbosa.com
@MarcoBarbosa

48. References
[1] Open Source CMS Market Share Report 2010
[2] Open CMS Awards
[3] W3 Techs
[4] The CMS Showdown
Idealware - Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems
Survey Analysis Part 1: Developers and Documentation
Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal
Joomla and Drupal - Which One is Right for You? Version 2
What everybody ought to know about Joomla
Why running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster waiting to happen