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At this point, there are so many modules (add-ons) that you can add whatever functionality you want to your website. Design is relatively easy, as well. Because it's open source, a huge, active community of users contributes to its constant improvement. I've been especially impressed with its security features, which for me is often the easiest element to overlook when developing a website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal's basic functionality isn't particularly thrilling. Without modules, your website will look and feel very basic. It also has a relatively steep learning curve for those without coding experience, which some may find counterproductive to the purpose of CMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to input data once your website is built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bit hard to change HTML coding if you aren't super experienced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its custom design and support for modules. It has a lot of new features added to it. I cant wait to work with Drupal 8 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The architecture or you can call it a transition from Drupal 6 - 7 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you can dream up a use case, you can probably build it in Drupal. This CMS is a powerhouse that allows you to create custom data entry templates (called content types) to capture all your data. Then you can use Views to sort, filter, and search your textual content. Views is also powerful enough to handle some layout options. However, I would recommend using Display Suite for building layouts based upon content types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve for Drupal can be steep. It's important that you figure out exactly you are seeking to accomplish by building a website in Drupal. The other main negative is that it can years before versions, so if you get stuck on a version due to dependence on a module/plugin/extension. Finally, theming the site to look a specific way can be difficult since there are so many parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From my experience, Drupal is very versatile. My team works on more than 30 sites built in Drupal and they offer a wide range of user experiences. I would also say that global elements are great for quickly customizing sites. I also like the fact that content can be delineated into so many different content types and you can specify elements for each type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While I like the way the content on our sites is broken out into content types, it can still be challenging to find certain elements on older sites that have a lot of content (and perhaps are broken down into so many content types). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The functioanlity of drupal is user friendly and can do almost everything and anything I wanted it to using modules. Drupal has all these new features and I could add as many features as I wanted and see if it worked for the functionality of the website. Many of the modules are used by professional developers but I liked that I could get them for free and look as professional as those of their larger clients. It helps if you have had experience developing websites, but I did it without having the experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had to really learn how to use Drupal before their new release. It was a lot of trial and error for me because before I didn't have any experience with CMS's and I didn't have a developer background, but the new release of Drupal 7 is said to have improved the experience for non-developer users. It isn't as easy as Wordpress or Joomla and it might seem cumbersome as to how it looks unlike WordPress but it is still great to check out and try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a very very cool platform, which has the highest level of flexibility if you know what you want to do and how to do it. You can basically achieve anything with the countless modules, and everything is for free. Moreover, it has a very strong and established community, where you can always get help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an amateur user, I found Drupal very hard to start and maintain. It took me a while to understand where and how to do every basic things. And in the end, I still couldn't understand how to solve certain safety issues. And as compared, WordPress is much easier to start using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drupal's best asset is the open source software in which it is built upon. This allows you access to a plethora of modules that are customizable and free (or near free). With the Drupal community, you can customize your website with any amount of cool widgets and add-ons... don't create anything, someone already did... all you have to do is search for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open source software is only as strong as it's community. For example, you may have used a wonderful new module or theme. Great! However, if Drupal changes, it's up to the original software designer who created your module to update it. And, that software designer, may or may not want to. With that, you may be forced to replace it or live with what is currently used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is a very robust CMS system. One of the best features is that it is easy to install, and has LOTS of options. It's one of those things where for the experienced person, having tons of options is better, but if you are a beginner, it might not be for you.

Good:

Has one of the most features for a FREE CMS

Good anti-spam features

The ogranic group module is great

Has great tag clouds

Powerful permission system

Good community (as one of the largest CMS communities, there are tons of people on and willing to help you with any questions you might have) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is obviously not as easy to use as Wordpress.

Don't use Drupal for a web shop or fot s specific web application.

Word to the wise: if you are just starting out, take the time to get to know WordPress before you dive into Drupal. You'll be happy you did, and you'll enjoy the features it has to offer much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't know anything about the open-source system drupal uses, but I would imagine this is the main selling point. Many users talk about flexibility and ease of use. From a content perspective with limited coding experience and years of work with wordpress, I can't say Drupal is easy or flexible, but it is different and provides a more current/modern flavor to the content I produce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's impossible to find articles. Tagging and searching for tags is a disaster, you have the main categories and that's it. There's no way of navigating the blog effectively, you must go page by page unless you know the blog by name and can find it through search. This cuts off all content older than 6 months to readers on the blog homepage. Eek! Also SEO tagging is terrible. After writing a post I must switch to plain text editor to add my image and link tags. Huge waste of time.

Worst of all is the saving / publishing option. I must be doing something wrong but I'll be nearly finished an article, I'll be adding in the hyperlinks and the links pop up box just dies, freezing my page and never reloading. There's no autosave like in wordpress and my article is gone. I'm forced to start over, hoping the hyperlink box doesn't crash again. Oh and if you save every so often while creating content, I have no idea where to find my drafts unless I've scheduled them for another date and they're under the scheduled tab. So if I start writing a post I better finish it before I close the editing window or else it's gone into some unknown vortex.

Worst of all, Drupal is not intuitive - that's really the summary of my experience. Maybe I've just worked with Wordpress longer and am more used to it, but I feel like it's more difficult to add plugins, to build content, to tag, and to save. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.