[Nfb-web] Druple vs WordPress

Thu Aug 6 00:29:00 UTC 2015

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I'm going to reply to this because I strongly dislike wordpress.
1. I work for Acquia; we are one of the leading companies behind
Drupal; our CTO owns Drupal itself. We have been working on Drupal 8,
and part of my job is to look at accessibility. Everyone is really
interested in making things better. Drupal is 100% accessible,
straight out of the box--no extra themes. I recommend turning off
overlay for yourself, but everyone has this special weird wordpress
theme that's for accessibility.

Drupal also has a cool little project called Drush, which basically
allows you to do really neat stuff through the command line. Anything
from updating the actual site, to updating user accounts, installing,
enabling modules, etc.

I have a huge issue with Gabe's third point, because I've seen way
better drupal sites than he is apparently looking at. I get paid each
and every day to work on Drupal, so I'm not a hobbyist or volunteer. I
think there's better ways to push your prefered platform than saying
everyone who uses X is just a kid in a basement. But while we're on
this page, I'm going to look at his site:
The first graphic I see has an alt text that says screenshot with a
date. Not super accessible. The rest of the pages look about the same,
just short info with "write or visit" and an address, so there's not a
lot here to even really go through. Services is just a big list of
graphics with screenshot alt text.

With all of this aside, I'm going to give you some reasons why I
myself love drupal.
1. Out of the gate, Drupal feels like a website, not a blog. It is
really easy to set a lot of stuff up that takes a bit more effort in
wordpress. For example, with the views module, you can have an
announcements page up in minutes and start publishing announcements.
2. You can order and configure blocks to customize exactly how your
page looks. I had a lot of trouble with this when I tried to use
Wordpress.
3. Drupal itself in 7.x and most notably in 8.x includes a lot of
really awesome caching stuff (plug, I'm working on some of this). This
makes your site a lot faster and handles some of what something like
wp-supercache will do for you.
4. I've found that I like both communities, but there's just an extra
bit of awesome in the Drupal community.

As I said, I'm not a hobbiest and I know there are a lot of web
developers who are not. I think what you choose as a CMS (or in
Drupal's case, a CMF) is ultimately up to you; please let me know if
you have any questions and I'll do what I can to help you.

- From your basement drupal hobbyist,
Ty
On 8/6/2015 1:14 AM, Gabe Vega (Personal) via Nfb-web wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am a wordpress developer who actually makes money and a living
> off what I do and let me tell you why and what the differences
> are.
> 
> 1. I think wordpress provides me as a blind developer visual tools
> and themes and visual appeal to a site that no other cms offers. 2.
> I think that wordpress gives me the flexibility, accessibility and
> the customization via plugins to make my sites as fun, professional
> or as enterprise as I need them to be. 3. I believe another big
> difference between wordpress and drupal developers on this list is
> the wordpress developers on this list actually use wordpress as a
> job platform, and the drupal developers are just hobby or
> volinteers who really have no real world experience. Gabe
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Nfb-web
> [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Feysa, III.
> via Nfb-web Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 2:57 PM To: NFB
> Webmaster <nfb-web at nfbnet.org> Cc: Peter Feysa, III.
> <pfmcse2001 at att.net> Subject: [Nfb-web] Druple vs WordPress
> 
> 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> 
> 
> I have been reading the latest email messages from this list and it
> seems like you favor Druple over WordPress. Please tell me the pros
> and cons. I am trying to decide which is best. Alsok, which screen
> reader works best with the two? NVDA or JAWS?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Peter Michael Feysa, III.
> 
> Executor Director of Emerald Coast Lighthouse
> 
> MCSE, MCP, CIW, A+ CompTIA
> 
> Bachelor of Arts International Studies / Computer Science
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> <http://www.eclfb.org/> Emerald Coast Lighthouse for the Blind,
> Inc.
> 
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