Drupal

Drupal

379 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Drupal	Score6.9 out of 10	N/A	Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.	N/A

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Drupal

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Drupal
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	Drupal
Considered Both Products	Drupal.org Jeff Montgomery CTO in Manufacturing at Animal Necessity (Veterinary, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal excels at allowing seasoned programmers to really get creative with marketing initiatives in terms of working with a theme and the core code. That being said, it is definitely much more challenging for average developers and front-end builders to use, especially at … Incentivized Helpful? Leslie Ornelas CEO in Corporate at United Way Galveston County Mainland (Non-profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal has some advantages and disadvantages when stacked up against WordPress,, including that WordPress is easier to user for beginners and requires less training to get started. I noticed that while using Drupal, more help and assistance was needed from developers to make … Incentivized Helpful? Dustin Day Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM in Marketing at DFT (a number of local companies under one umbrella) (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, … Incentivized Helpful? Rae Carson Communications Strategist in Marketing at Institute for Cultural Communicators (Non-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal I inherited Drupal from a developer who made the website for our nonprofit many years ago. It was increasingly obvious that it wasn't a fit for our organization, which has multiple staff and volunteers who need to edit or update the website but don't have coding experience. Wix … Incentivized Helpful? Anirban Das Software Engineer in Engineering at Onetrust (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal requires less to no coding abilities to spin up sites. Even if someone is preparing to develop sites that require technical know how then Drupal provides role based systems to seperate developers from content writers. Drupal 8 and 9 now have a vast array of plugins. Now … Incentivized Helpful? Sohail Lajevardi Drupal Front-end Engineer in Engineering at Ramsalt (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal WordPress for sure has a bigger community, a lot of paid extensions which sometimes is easier to purchase and get started, a lot of pre-designed templates to get you going, but nowadays with the scale of the projects we've been working with, and the need for custom-tailored … Incentivized Helpful? Dominik Ras Senior Project Manager in Information Technology at Polcode (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal's commerce module features custom e-commerce functionality, allowing for customization that fits our commercial enterprise model. Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial in Information Technology at SENAI-DN (Non-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Drupal We use both, for different projects (Joomla and Drupal). Drupal proved to be more robust, more secure and more integrable with PHP applications. Drupal requires a more senior technical team but allows for more complex activities. It's great if you have a medium to a large … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal We first had a WordPress-based website, that evolved to a custom third-party developed content management system. In both cases, that involved additional costs for any change request, any security or any scalability need. WordPress didn't meet enterprise requirements. That also … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Kerry Application Developer in Information Technology at Kansas State Historical Society (Museums & Institutions, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is community-backed making it more accessible and growing at a faster rate than Sitefinity which is a proprietary product built on .NET. Drupal is PHP-based using some but not all Symphony codebase. Updates for Drupal are frequent and so are feature adds. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal Drupal is far more usable and stable than Joomla!, and the developer community support is significantly stronger. While Drupal is often compared to WordPress, they are fundamentally different platforms, and in most projects, it's very clear when the requirements are beyond what … Incentivized Helpful? Fred Bals Senior Content Strategist in Marketing at Black Duck Software (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Drupal We were looking for an open source CMS. WordPress wasn't powerful enough for our needs. Joomla was too difficult for our team to use. Incentivized Helpful? Lindsay Halsey Co-Founder in Marketing at webShine (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal We have used many content management systems — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, ExpressionEngine, and more. Drupal is more powerful and flexible than most. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal We did a comparison of Drupal against Joomla, WordPress, and Ingeniux. We found that its multiple themes available for web pages, user management, comment management, and form generation stands apart from its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Bobby Donohue Principal and Creative Director in Marketing at Fuelblue (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal I've used WordPress sparingly when helping a client with an existing website. I find it much less powerful and robust, and frankly confusing. The way WordPress websites are set up in the backend doesn't make sense to me after getting used to how Drupal is set up. They're … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Davies Senior Web Application Developer in Information Technology at City of Portland (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is really the only well-supported open-source CMS that is designed for large, data-rich websites. There just really weren't any good alternatives. There are plenty of CMSs that excel at small to medium-sized websites. But for a large website with lots of structured data, … Incentivized Helpful? Rose M. Warner Software Developer in Information Technology at SunDevs (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal Although Drupal is not the most used, it has great performance and is more used in professional projects. It allows us to expand without starting from scratch. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Howe Web Producer II in Marketing at Rocket Software (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Drupal Security-wise and traffic-wise Drupal is built to handle a lot. While the other platforms mentioned ( mainly WordPress ) are great and have a large community, I would only use Drupal for an Enterprise level platform to build a website on. I first learned about Drupal about 10 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal Drupal supports lots of devices like Mac, Windows, Linux etc. easily, and it is an open source product so there's no cost required. Lots of other products require purchasing, costing a high amount. The support system of Drupal is also good in comparison to other products. The … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Reichelt Senior Project Manager in Information Technology at OnMetric (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal is certainly a more complex animal, comparatively. But its power lies in its flexibility, extensibility, and stability. And the API is fantastic. There's really nothing else like it. Incentivized Helpful? Dr. C. Michael Sturgeon Research Coach at Lee University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Drupal I selected Drupal because of the simplicity upon going live. "Simple" is not the word I would use prior to the site going live though. I have used Jumla (which I believe was part of Drupal as one CMS about 12 or 15 years ago). Jumla is almost identical in capabilities to … Incentivized Helpful? Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Drupal In my mind, Drupal and WordPress are the top open source CMSes, and I rarely recommend not going with an open source CMS. WordPress can be great, especially for single developers, but I find that the code structure and extensibility of Drupal makes it superior for many use … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Deakyne Academic Services Manager in Information Technology at The University of Kansas (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Drupal I've used Squarespace and WordPress for other businesses, and Drupal was honestly selected due to cost. It does a good job of scaling across our organization - and many units have benefited from having a space to provide content. Squarespace is more modern, and WordPress may … Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas De Salvo Founder, Creative Director in Marketing at Edge One Media (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Drupal Drupal has strong role-based permissions for users, powerful content blocks for editing, and granular customizing options in their views. For a company or organization requiring a lot of customization, Drupal can be a really powerful tool. However, Drupal does require … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Drupal We've used ION and WordPress. However, Drupal tends to be more customizable, secure, and overall more professional in the website-building business. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Drupal

Comparison of Security features of Drupal
Feature	Drupal 2.0 66 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	2.066 Ratings

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal
Feature	Drupal 7.7 63 Ratings
API	9.358 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	6.054 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal
Feature	Drupal 5.3 69 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	1.062 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	9.366 Ratings
Admin section	3.069 Ratings
Page templates	4.068 Ratings
Library of website themes	3.059 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	10.063 Ratings
Publishing workflow	9.367 Ratings
Form generator	3.064 Ratings

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal
Feature	Drupal 5.0 68 Ratings
Content taxonomy	10.063 Ratings
SEO support	1.063 Ratings
Bulk management	10.059 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	2.062 Ratings
Community / comment management	2.062 Ratings

User Ratings
	Drupal
Likelihood to Recommend	2.0 (78 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (18 ratings)
Usability	3.0 (10 ratings)
Availability	9.7 (3 ratings)
Performance	8.9 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (4 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	6.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.1 (4 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (2 ratings)