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Drupal

379 Reviews and Ratings

Movable Type

16 Reviews and Ratings

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drupal

    Score6.9 out of 10
    		N/ADrupal 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

    Movable Type

    Score8 out of 10
    		N/AMovable Type is a Perl-based content management system from Six Apart, featuring the capability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files and user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links.N/A
    Pricing
    DrupalMovable Type
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DrupalMovable Type
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DrupalMovable Type
    Considered Both Products
    Drupal.org
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    Six Apart
    Sophia Ahn
    Web Producer at AIGA (Media Production, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Movable Type
    WordPress and Movable Type are the go to CMS for a reason - they are by far the easiest to navigate, learn, and use for daily blogging/content management. And now with more plug-ins available, these CMS products are getting more responsive and are offering capabilities (even …
    Incentivized
    Jean Louis
    Web Designer/Developer in Information Technology at eVariant (Internet, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Movable Type
    I've used Joomla! and Drupal. Both are power CMSs but I found it easier to work with Movable Type. Every CMS has its positive and negative points, but I found more benefits to using Movable Type compared to Joomla! and Drupal.
    Dennis Dewey
    Web Developer in Professional Services at Digital Designs (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Movable Type
    Movable Type is better than Wordpress because it generates static sites that cannot be broken by losing your database connection. The custom fields in MT are superior to Wordpress because of the way the fields are presented in the new content form. You need to get paid plugins …
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DrupalMovable Type
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Drupal and Movable Type
    Feature
    Drupal
    2.0
    66 Ratings
    Movable Type
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions2.066 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal and Movable Type
    Feature
    Drupal
    7.7
    63 Ratings
    Movable Type
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    API9.358 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.054 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal and Movable Type
    Feature
    Drupal
    5.3
    69 Ratings
    Movable Type
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor1.062 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.366 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Admin section3.069 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Page templates4.068 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Library of website themes3.059 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design10.063 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.367 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Form generator3.064 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal and Movable Type
    Feature
    Drupal
    5.0
    68 Ratings
    Movable Type
    5.6
    1 Ratings
    Content taxonomy10.063 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO support1.063 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Bulk management10.059 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions2.062 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Community / comment management2.062 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    DrupalMovable Type
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.0
    (78 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (18 ratings)
    5.4
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    3.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)