Drupal Reviews

The most valuable are the security features and a wide array of available modules, or extensions, that can be used to add functionality to a Drupal website.

Our website, debugacademy.com, was built in Drupal. We use it to review student applications to our Drupal Development Course.

It needs better and more themes available for download, like you have in WordPress.

I have used this for 16 months.

We have not had any stability issues. Another good thing about Drupal is that it gets a lot of updates.

We have not had scalability issues. Drupal is designed for complex and large websites.

I would give technical support a rating of 5/5. The Drupal community is a very passionate and helpful one.

We did not have a previous solution.

The setup is definitely complex. In order to develop a Drupal website, you have to set up a local development environment or server.

Drupal is free to use since it is open source software. However, Drupal developers are expensive.

We didn’t look at any alternatives.

Make sure you know Drupal before getting into it. Take a Drupal course like the one we have.

- Ease of Customization

- Expandability

- Company website build in Drupal

- Drupal Community and Forums not as easy and straightforward as Wordpress

- The number of areas covered by existing plugins should be larger

- Resource Hungry, compared to Wordpress

2 years

No issues

No issues

No issues

Not needed

Not needed

Joomla, Wordpress. I typically use Wordpress for smaller websites, with less customization required and Drupal for larger websites that may need to expand in the future.

Straightforward

In house

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Drupal is Free.

Joomla, Wordpress

Make sure you know what kind of website you want to build and who will be using it.

It is good to note the following:

- Drupal has enterprise level security. Numerous government websites are build on Drupal so if security is a number one priority Drupal is your CMS

- As far as SEO is concerned, things can go really bad for Drupal if the developer does not know what he/she is doing, or does not understand customer needs. If SEO is done correctly Drupal is as good for SEO as any other CMS

- Use Drupal if expandability is a must or if you are building a large website with various kinds of functionality. For smaller websites and blogs, Wordpress is king.

I work with it.

It is good for big projects.

Module system.

It is a little bit simplified.

We are an agency so we created a Drupal website for our customers. Our primary use case is to put a Drupal website on our hosting web. So we use the solution on the cloud and then we also have one customer that uses it on-premise. 

The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS. And I like that it's a good product to manage complex digital solutions.

I would like to see better pricing because Drupal is an open-source technology. And then I also think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems. Translation management should also improve.

The solution is very stable.

I believe the solution is scalable. 

We haven't used this solution's technical support yet. I do, however, think that it is good. Whenever I need technical support from Drupal due to a bug issue or some other problem, I will always ask the community first before bothering the Drupal team. I understand that Acquia has a service level agreement to contact the supporter when we have a website in the mission-critical context. But I have never used it, until now.

The initial setup was easy and straightforward. It took us about an hour to deploy the program, but customization took a little longer.

My advice to others would be that Drupal is not only a CMS, you need to learn the Drupal fundamentals before to start the project. Drupal is a handy tool whenever you work on a digital infrastructure broad project and not only a simple website. So if you have a big project, you can use Drupal. But if you have a small website, like a blog or simple website, my advice would be not to use Drupal, because Drupal is too complex and the cost to maintain the platform can be too high, related to the value of your website, for example. If you have a website with a big product catalog, for example, in many languages and in many countries in the world, then Drupal is good. But if you have a simple website, like a portfolio or five page-website, you can use many other technologies that'd be simple to maintain and implement.

On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Drupal an eight. In the next release, I would like to see basic page buttons and better integration with the analytics platform. A drag and drop function to create simple pages will also be handy. For example, if a customer wants to create a landing page, it should be easy for him or her to do so. I would also like to see better translation management.

• It's extensible with so many modules.
• The environment allows for rapid prototyping.
• It provides security updates more often.
• It has a huge community and support from all over the web.

• It needs a shorter learning curve.
• It needs to improve resources usage.

The themes and modules are valuable features of this product. We can easily enhance the application's performance.

The modules need to be improved. It would be great if we could add custom PHP codes to some regions on the template. This would be used for adding and retrieving data from the database.

I have used this solution for about one year.

We did not encounter any stability issues.

We did encounter some scalability issues when I tried to add custom PHP codes. I searched Google for a solution, but I couldn't find anything.

I would give technical support a rating of 8/10.

I was not using any other product previously. I started web development with Drupal, Version 7.

I encourage others to use this product. It is a very powerful CMS tool with a lot of themes and modules. It is great for enterprise use.

• Content management: It helps the end user to input/update the content on his own without approaching the developer, once the site is built.
• Awesome community.
• A large number of modules which help in extending the functionality.
• An open-source solution.
• It is a secure solution.
• There is a constant development of new core features.

Since Drupal is not developed for any specific use cases, it has some learning curve and requires effort to learn. Thus, there is a need for good documentation.

I have used this solution for more than three years.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scalability issues.

If you purchase Drupal-specific hosting vendors like Acquia/Pantheon/Platform.sh, then you get Premium Support or else you need to go for IRC, Drupal Slack or forums.

The initial setup is easy and straightforward.

It is an open-source product, so there are no licensing fees, vendor lock-in, etc. involved.

If you need an open-source, scalable and secure CMS, then go for Drupal.

The Drupal project is an open-source solution and is supported by an awesome community of developers. It doesn't belong to any specific vendor.

Views, terms, panels, and entity conception. It is a very useful and fast solution to build successful web applications.

We built a few powerful applications on D7 and it was very fast.

It requires a lot of server resources. It should be optimized.

We have been using this solution for seven years.

We had stability issues. I have a lot of 'Out of memory' issues.

We had issues with scalability.

Drupal has a very cool community, so the technical support is pretty high.

To build more powerful apps, we switched to Symfony 3.0.

The setup was easy.

It's free.

There are a lot of solutions 'in the sea'. At the time, we choose Drupal because of its flexibility.

Try it! It's free and fun.