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Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

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Programmer

Drupal offers a wealth of themes and modules that make it possible to create almost any type of website, all backed by its robust and secure security system.

webmaster

I heard about CMS in the early 2000"s and in 2004 about Drupal. It's more powerful than other CMS, beacuse not so fancy but powerful, secure and stable.

Director of Digital Communications

Super customizable, love the features available, love the development community overall, and I really enjoy the updates in Drupal 8.

Drupal is a powerful, secure CMS for fast and secure websites. It is simple and easy to use - if you have a basic knowledge about HTML, SQL, etc.

Manager Operations

They are really happy with the performance of the website including front-end and back-end. I am really satisfied with the features of Drupal.

Product Owner

One being no visibility on the road map of the product that makes it difficult to take investment decisions and second is lack of customer support on the go.

Owner

Drupal is a powerful open source CMS with enterprise level functionalities. Best suited for higher level projects.

Pastor

We have a comprehensive back catalog of sermons and songs and Drupal has the best data storage and organisation system of the open source CMS systems.

Director Of Technical Services

The community support for this product is incredible. There are no licensing fees and the number of modules available to accomplish tasks is very good.

myself

Overall, my experience with Drupal was terrible.

Senior Systems Engineer

Durpal is a powerful and easy to use platform. It has a fairly easy to understand GUI that can be used by users of various levels of technical skills for content and website management.

Sales Associate

Positive experience overall. If you like getting your hands dirty and setting up your own website Drupal is a great way to get started with no cost.

Sr Quality Analyst

Lack of development knowledge to the resources. It lacks in the marketing.

Drupal is the worst website platform I've ever used.

Business Consultant

Once you build the website, there is not much you can do to change the layout as it is fixed. It limits your creativity and can be frustrating.

Information Technology Major

It is pretty hard to learn and not easy to customize. Partially because the shortage of new integrations and new developers joining the community.

Events and Media Manager

This software was not too difficult to integrate from our previous website software. It provides multiple page templates.

It can take some time to get used to the sheer amount of options and settings within Drupal, which can be overwhelming and difficult to navigate.

TYPO3

Best product for content management

Drupal has been useful in my day by day work, when I needed to work with complex websites hosting a great amount of data. In this scenario, it is a valuable solution.

A serious and well supported alternative to Wordpress as a Content Management System

This is a Drupal reivew

Overall, Drupal has been a valuable tool for our company. Its scalability, robust content modeling capabilities, and wide range of modules and themes have made it easy for us to create and manage our content and documents. While the software requires some technical expertise to fully set it up and customize it, the benefits of Drupal far outweigh the cons for our business.

Managing your content like a pro with Drupal

Drupal offers more advanced Content management facilities which in my opinion are very suitable for larger businesses with large content management needs and it's a nice work tool for professional developers too.

Overall we’ve had a good experience with Durpal.  Once we have a site published our marketing teams who aren’t technical users can self serve and manage their content.  This feels up our IT staff to focus on more complex issues and gives marketing full control of their content.

Good Content Management Platform

Drupal is the most flexible, secure, and enterprise-ready CMS. Its meant for mid-tier+ businesses where SEO, content management, integration, and digital capability are critical. We use Drupal extensively for Government, Post-Secondary Education, Pharmaceutical and Multi-brand enterprises extensively, it minimizes GTM time, satisfies compliance requirements and its modular nature makes it possible for businesses to quickly re-use functionality across their ecosystem (with the appropriate build strategies).

If you need a brochureware website, it might not be the best solution (equivalent of taking out a mosquito with a bazooka). 

The SEO and security capabilities OOTB are second to none, and integration capabilities are extensive. This is why its the gold standard for university platforms (71 of top 100 universities), and used in many government projects where security is a priority.

Drupal - CMS for Enterprise

Rich with features and Highly Secure 

Drupal has been an excellent CMS and has helped us greatly in implementing and maintaining a data driven website.

Very well engineered CMS

Overall, it gives me the peace of mind that I don't need to learn coding to update my website.

Great for multiple teams in different Regions

Drupal is very different. It tries and tries to be better than WP but nevertheless it is still the tool for the specific people who are fed up with WordPress and want to try anything but doing "another wordpress website"

The rival to Wordpress that does not want to win the fight

Painful at least. There are several times where we have been affected by bugs that, after digging in a little, we found that had been there for 5 or 6 years with no solution. If you are starting out a new project, I don't recommend using it unless you require some specific feature. For example, drupal permissions management is excellent.
If you don't require something that you know only drupal can provide, go with something else. You will save a lot of frustration.

Want to use an unnecessarily complex CMS? Drupal is for you

One of the most significant of business problems that I am solving by using this software for my consulting business is being able to provide a secure and stable website. The software itself informs me of when updates to the software or modules are available and those updates have always been painless and easy to implement.

Similarly, creating websites for clients has also been easier with use of the Drupal 8 software as it reduces the need for repetitive tasks that tend to be associated with either creating websites file by file or the use of some of the other CMS software solutions that are available. I have also found that installing and setting up client websites using the Drupal 8 software is much easier than some of the other CMS software solutions that I have used in the past.

Drupal 8 is my go to for Website Development

Great software made by a great community that uses and enforces best practices

Drupal worked well in the past, but it just seems outdated now.

Better Products Out There...

Drupal is great! It's best-in-class when it comes to an open source web CMS. I'm a huge fan!

Great CMS  - highly customizable


I have generated multiple content management systems with DRUPAL, it is a great ally for the developer because of its easy connection with thousands and thousands of plugins, it also allows the generation and creation of them from native php

DRUPAL DEPLOYMENT

In my previous job, I used Drupal daily for about two years and managed 10 websites in 4 languages. I had admin rights on some and helped build and configure custom blocks as well as launch new sites. However, most admin work was done by developers.

More Powerful than WordPress but Only if you have a Developer, not for DIY

Drupal is easy to maintain by non technical person. The theme customization is one of the best feature as it provide the flexibility of editing the website as per your need. The Open-Source code help in to understand and audit the code of the Drupal. My overall experience is good with this CMS as it becomes the administrator or site owner first choice as it's easy to maintain once setup.

The new era Content Management System.

Hopefully the new decoupled admin built in react will make for a better UX experience that will draw more attention to the system's strengths versus it's downfalls

Drupal - a CMS that could use an UX upgrade

We have created multimillion-dollar Enterprise level sites on a platform is Rock Solid reliable fast I'm downright amazing. You can build something as a simple blog can International multi-level site with Drupal.

Drupal Rocks. for the serious user

I've used a few CMS such as Joomla before, but Drupal is the one that my team and I consistently go back to. For some of our key sites,  this is a great tool to use. I have members on the team that are well versed in PHP and CSS so this is relatively easy for them to work with.

We've used Drupal for a few in house websites ranging from relatively simple blogs to enterprise level business sites. The team has been using Drupal since Drupal6 and we're now at Drupal8. Drupal's best selling point over many CMS is in its flexibility and the multitude of options available for the users. 

Easy to Use, Hard to master CMS

In my work I managed to complete the development of a project with this software, our team was congratulated by our bosses and the board of directors is very happy with the results, we are currently in the quality testing phase, I hope that soon Drupal can be launched in the production environment On a personal level, I see it as an option to do independent work, so I can obtain many benefits.

Powerful but difficult for the user, it can be improved


this CMS is very flexible, and the inclusion of modules you can do different things in the portals

Peace of mind, in regard to security.

With a bit of customization, it makes managing web development projects much simpler and more productive.

Releases like Thunder and Lightning hold the potential to become ever-better 'jump starts' toward the ideal CMS for publishing collaboratively.

Drupal has Evolved into a Great CMS

Linda R.:                                              My name is Linda. I'm a director of digital communications, and I give Drupal five stars. For more reviews like this, click below. Before using Drupal, I was primarily using WordPress, and as I got to know the capabilities of Drupal a little bit better, I could see that my sites could scale to a greater degree and with greater customization and functionality than WordPress and that's why I switched. 
                                                       I chose Drupal because given the vertical that I work in and given the amount of content on the site I was managing, Drupal was really the best solution for us to be able to have a robust content management system with a variety of user permission settings. Then we would really be able to scale the site and increase our functionality iteratively with Drupal much more easily. 
                                                       Integrating and onboarding Drupal was partially easy and partially complex. Drupal is the type of thing where you're going to want some support, you're going to want either a developer in-house or some sort of long-term agreement with the development shop. It's not complicated to use, but as you want to increase functionality, it really would benefit you to have that sort of external support or internal support that's truly dedicated just to Drupal development and nothing else, because it really has so many capabilities that it's not the type of thing you can dabble in and really maximize its potential. 
                                                       If you're considering using Drupal, make sure that you speak to Drupal development shops, get to know how they work, get to know how they approach monthly development work for you, get to understand their project management process. Take a look at sites that are managed on Drupal and look at what they're doing, take a look at sites in your industry and see if you can find out if they're being managed on Drupal, because then you can start to see some of the customizations that are available to you and you don't really have to reinvent the wheel. So do your homework. 

Head of Client Services

Powerful open source alternative to WCMS monoliths 

Luke A.:                                               I'm Luke, Head of Client Services. I give Drupal five star. For more reviews like this, click below. Before we started using Drupal, we were using WordPress, which was very intuitive, easy to use, but from a developer point of view had more of a ceiling to it. We needed something that could scale anything from small websites up to really big applications that needed to have lots of different sort of channels to them. Drupal was able to do that and was able to do it easily and cost effectively.
                                                       We chose Drupal in part because of its security credentials. Our clients, in some cases, are large corporates. They've got IT and compliance teams, and so their requirements are really rigorous around security of data. Drupal ticks all of those boxes. We also needed a content management system that was really powerful, but really flexible as well, something that had no technical ceiling to it. We needed something that was API ready right out of the box, and we needed something that was easy to use. Older versions of Drupal weren't so intuitive, but Drupal 9 is very intuitive and very easy for non-technical users to pick up.
                                                       Drupal takes a little bit of a learning curve for developers. It's not as ubiquitous as WordPress is, so there is a little bit more to learn. However, it is just another PHP framework as well, so a lot of developers use it. There's a massive open source community out there of people who are contributing to it. So if you can get over that initial hurdle of learning how to use the platform, you very quickly get to grips with it and never really look back. I thought at the time, when we started using Drupal, that it would be too difficult to get our heads around and WordPress was so much easier. Over time, having used Drupal, I now can't imagine using WordPress for almost anything. Drupal's our natural go-to choice for anything from small marketing, sales-led things to big applications, doing some really complex work.
                                                       If you're considering Drupal, things to think about are from a user point of view... For admin users, it is well worth looking at community-built themes. Out of the box, Drupal is quite vanilla. It's not the most engaging of interfaces, so themes like Gin are really useful. They layer over the top and give it a really fresh and modern feel. Also, when you're using Drupal, it's very much a blank canvas. In contrast to something like WordPress, where you've got very common elements like posts and pages, in Drupal, the component parts are much more flexible. You need to do a bit more planning. Whenever you're starting a project, you've got to think a little bit further ahead as to how you want to structure and architect everything. But if you can do that, then it's super powerful and there's really nothing that you can't do with it.

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