Drupal 7 Pros and Cons

The feature of Drupal 7 is its flexibility, in customizing modules through hooks. It requires some know how so having developer support is crucial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Drupal 7 has its strengths one major drawback is its approaching end of life status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal is one of the PHP-based CMS. Drupal 7 is one of the versions with enough features like content organization, integration, and user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal 7 is less secure compared to drupal 10 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since its an open source,it makes easier for developers to build scalable enterprise applications.comes with custom and inbuilt themes where user ca n modify the design as per requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

requires additional programmming to customize drupal modules,if any file contains broken paths, it leads to slower page loading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a very powerful CMS, ideal for "heavy lifting" jobs that other CMSs can't really do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you actually want to do any of that "heavy lifting", you'll need an engineer who is familiar with building code for Drupal. Additionally, Drupal 7 will be EOL in November 2023. The migration to latest & greatest Drupal (9) is not a simple ask. Again, you'll need engineering support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal 7 handles the database very efficiently, and the security it provides for the data is unmatchable. It is very lightweight and fast to view the data using the views module. It provides a modular approach, making it easy to manage large-scale products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For the naive user, it is very complex to understand. Sometimes the cache creates problems on the large-scale systems developed in drupal. The revision tables created take more spaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal 7 as said has a lot of customisable options to manage your website content to create your customisable website as per you or your clients requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is too much complex to understand for any person who doesn't have any technical background or not familiar with the technology, so you will need a developers help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing I like about Drupal 7 is how it manages the content, and we can create our content types based on our requirements. It also creates backups by default of our content which makes us retrieve the deleted nodes and their data. The watchdog feature is excellent, which logs the desired PHP variables and makes the code easy to debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we try to customize Drupal 7 based on our requirements is easy as it provides various hooks, but the DB tables it creates are a lot which makes the site slow, and the redundant data get logged on to DB tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal is very scalable for small or large scale websites and applications. It's functionality can be extended by various modules available. Drupal has a very large community support. Workflow, views and various important modules makes Drupal very strong CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The web application built using Drupal runs a bit slow because of alot of queries from a number of DB tables. Clearing cache all the time when we change anything from code or adding menu item makes it complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal 7 provided a large number of modules like workflow, rules, permissions, content, fields. And we also customize the modules as per client requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal 7 has no dislike, but I have seen one issue it create a table for every field, so the database has a large number of tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The CMS interface loads fast. It's a great platform for sites that rely on taxonomy and search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can't use all the module updates because there is too much risk it will break something. We never succeeded at implementing a content approval workflow within the system and ended up resorting to email. Cannot upgrade directly to version 8 or 9: would have to rebuild the whole site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.