[support] What makes WP sites popular as compared to drupal sites ?

[Scott]

Drupal does have ping "right out of the box".  There is a core module
that notifies pingomatic.  Apparently there is no configuration involved
but cron must be running.

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 08:06 +0530, raj wrote:
> May I know what led you to think that wordpress sites are more popular 
> than drupal?
> 
> It is not that wordpress sites are more popular by the virtue of them 
> being driven by wordpress. You can achieve the same success  with a 
> drupal driven site.Wordpress has trackbacks, blog and ping right out of 
> the box. There may be plugins for those features in Drupal.
> 
> A Drupal driven site is not the same as a Wordpress driven blog. A 
> Drupal driven site may be anything - a shopping cart, a 10 page content 
> websites, anything. Wordpress websites are.. well blogs. You can make a 
> blog out of Drupal and add the features that Wordpress has and achieve 
> the same results. One good example is Performancing (www.performancing.com)
> 
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