![]() ![]() This is hard to argue if you have ever tried Drupal and WordPress. And since most webmasters don’t need all the power anyway, guess who will keep getting more users long term. While the complication probably makes Drupal more powerful it comes with the cost of ease of use. Drupal Is More Complicated and Harder To Work With But how is this developer friendly and how is this strictness going to attract more developers to build extensions for Drupal? Don’t forget we are discussing the things entirely from popularity point of view here. Insisting on good coding style is probably good. If you want to publish a Drupal extension you have to follow their coding style (to the level of where curly braces are placed) and you have to use their APIs even when you have easier ways to do things. Some bloggers say that Drupal is developer-friendly because of… I could never understand what. I expect to get some hate for this but it’s what I think. If you have to bet which will be the most known CMS in 5 years from now what will be your bet? Drupal Is Less Developer-Friendly WordPress is not just popular – its popularity is absolutely huge and probably unseen so far in the CMS world. Because when you ask a random fellow what CMS to use, chances that you’ll get the answer “WordPress” are 4-5 times better in favor of WP vs Drupal. Until something major changes, the popularity of one CMS guarantees its further popularity. What an argument is this? A good one actually. Why is this? WordPress is Already Insanely Popular ![]() ![]() Drupal – and Joomla by the way – had their pick in 2009 and since then are in almost constant decline. WordPress is growing and will keep growing. If you plan to invest in Drupal for your new site, or in creating Drupal extensions for sale, or to grow a career in Drupal development, and so on, popularity is important thing to consider. It’s only to explain why it will be never as popular. The point is not to bash Drupal vs WordPress. I admit I don’t like it too much but this is not the point of the post. ![]()
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