A presentation I did with @lgladdy back in June 2012 for BathCamp (http://bathcamp.org/events/cms-smackdown). Before you start commenting like a crazy-assed loon, please remember the title is entirely designed to provoke. Like anything else in this entire universe, I'm long enough in the tooth to know this: "IT DEPENDS". So: No. I don't think Wordpress shits on all CMS's in every situation* Peace, out x * Just most of them ** ** kidding

1. CAUTION: ZEALOT ALERT!
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2. Why Wordpress
shits on your CMS
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3. 5 [small] things we don’t like much
• there are moments [not many] when it isn’t
appropriate
• if you use too many plugins, something
*will* go wrong
• there are lots of updates
• rogue / spam themes are horrid
• routing is a clusterfuck of doom
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4. Why it rocks
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5. 1. content management systems
are for normal people, not geeks
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6. blindingly obvious interface
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11. 2. everyone uses it
[apart from those people insane enough to use Drupal]
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12. size of community
• 72. 4 million websites use Wordpress
• at end 2011, 20-25% of all new websites
were built using Wordpress
• 48% of the top 100 blogs use Wordpress
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13. • average rate of a Wordpress job is $50
(£32) per hour
• oDesk has an average of 6,725 Wordpress
jobs each month
• Wordpress is the 5th most requested skill
size of community #2
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14. • 19,000 plugins available
• (together, these have been downloaded
more than 285 million times)
size of community #2
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15. 3. “It’s just a blog”. WRONG.
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16. Custom post types
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17. Advanced custom fields...
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18. per-template fields...
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19. ..repeaters, flexible content..
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20. 4. Outstanding documentation
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21. Documentation
• Codex is blinding, and community powered
• Thousands of tutorials given size of the
supporting developer network
• Very quick response to bug reports
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22. 5. Insanely brilliant framework
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23. a closing thought
wordpress: 53.8%
joomla: 9.2%
drupal: 6.7%
others: 30.3%
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