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Aim for the Wordpress CMS market
August 12, 2013, 12:04:02 pm
CiviCRM is strongly linked to the Drupal website content management system although Joomla and Wordpress also have interfaces.
But Wordpress is the most popular CMS worldwide by a long way.

For the statistics see link webnethosting dot net folder "wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal-cms-popularity-war".
Eg of the top million websites 14.7% use Wordpress, 2.7% use Joomla! and 1.6% use Drupal.

Anyone who has tried CiviCRM with Wordpress must have noticed that it lacks the usual simplicity of other Wordpress add-ons, such as one-click upgrade, and lacks the Drupal-only features such as webforms. Therefore it does not attract the typical Wordpress user, and recommendations are sparse.

The marketing suggestion is to really try to make CiviCRM Wordpress-friendly, so it gets recommended by more and more Wordpress users. Then it will automatically take off in a self-sustaining manner, in a much larger target market. Which benefits every other CiviCRM user.


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Re: Aim for the Wordpress CMS market
August 12, 2013, 05:21:11 pm
Few thoughts and comments

1. I do agree that our goal should always be to make Civi as cms friendly as possible for all cms'es including WordPress.

2. This to a large extent depends on the involvement of the developer community of that cms. We are building this wp developer base but still have ways to go

3. Integrating with other wp plugins similar to web form and views is crucial -i.e. plugins like gravity forms maybe

Can u help with the above and help make Civi more wp friendly?

Thanx

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Re: Aim for the Wordpress CMS market
August 13, 2013, 07:13:15 am
I'm a WordPress developer and open source advocate who is just getting into CiviPress having created one site and starting work on my next.

How can I help make Civi more WP friendly?

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Re: Aim for the Wordpress CMS market
August 13, 2013, 07:18:48 am
The one-click upgrade idea mentioned above is not practical at present due to technical reasons, but adding integration for web forms would be great. For Drupal we have https://drupal.org/project/webform_civicrm which integrates Drupal's Webform module with CiviCRM allowing you to create custom forms which feed into CiviCRM.

As Lobo wrote, a great too to build for CiviCRM in WordPress would be a bridge to integrate some type of form builder, such as gravity forms, into CiviCRM. First step would be to read up and see how the webform_civicrm module works to understand what the goal is--this module is very complete and well done and is very popular.
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Re: Aim for the Wordpress CMS market
December 30, 2013, 04:02:35 pm
I just want to echo minfo's original point. After spending hundreds of hours trying very hard to learn Drupal, I've just decided to abandon it and focus exclusively on Wordpress, which I already know. As Drupal 8 rolls out, I suspect there will be other refugees like me. I am not a developer but will be exploring CiviCRM + Wordpress in coming months and will try to share what I learn.

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Re: Aim for the Wordpress CMS market
December 31, 2013, 12:19:43 am

All of us are in strong agreement with the statement of building stronger ties with WP plugins and make CiviPress even better. However, the project needs a lot more folks from the WP + Civi community to contribute code and/or $$$ back to make the ecosystem stronger. Agreements / wishes / hope are a great first step, but ultimately someone needs to spend time and contribute code to improve things

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