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Overview

Drupal

4.2

(453)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Drupal

Drupal is cloud-based open source content management system for content authoring and content publishing websites. The platform offers functionalities such as merchandising, content creation, reporting and content sharing.

Drupal’s content architecture feature allows professionals to create content workflows to manage the content creation process. Further, the platforms enables content marketers to tag relevant keywords which increases content visibility across search engines.

Multisite management features enable users to customize a website’s content according to geography, brand and marketing campaigns. Drupal also enables website designers to display content in different formats, such as PDF, video, HTML and Flash. Also, the platform helps marketers to launch promotion campaigns and offers tools to help with search engine optimization (SEO) management.

Drupal allows users to create web applications that can be viewed on mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. The solution integrates with Facebook, LinkedIn, MailChimp, Twitter, Zendesk and Box.

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Drupal Features

Popular features found in Content Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Audio File Management
Content Library
Customizable Templates
Image Editing
Search/Filter
SEO Management
Text Editing
Version Control
Video Support
More features of Drupal
API
Collaboration Tools
Content Management
Content Publishing Options
Document Management
Electronic Forms
Website Management

Drupal Integrations

Mailchimp

Smartling

Meta for Business

Twitter/X

Google Analytics 360

Instagram

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Drupal User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

45%

38%

15%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.5

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.2

Kavindu Githsara K.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Managing your content like a pro with Drupal

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As a user of Drupal in our company, I have found it to be a powerful and flexible content management and document management system. One of the biggest advantages of this software is its scalability. Drupal can handle a large number of users and a large volume of content, which is essential for our company as we have many different departments and teams that need to access and manage their own content. Additionally, Drupal's robust content modeling capabilities have made it easy for us to create and manage structured content types, such as documents and articles. Another great feature of Drupal is the wide range of modules and themes available. These have allowed us to add additional functionality to our content management system, such as document version control, advanced search and tagging, and improved user permissions. Additionally, the module repository is vast, and it has been very easy for us to find and install the modules we need to improve the functionality of our content management system.

Cons:

One of the downsides of Drupal is that it can be complex to set up and customize. Other than that, there is nothing to complain.

Verified

Reviewer

Internet

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Always Flexible

I have solved various business use cases with Drupal. I've been able to build standard marketing web sites, real estate sites, work order system, online calendar scheduling, and a multitude of other types of sites. This is all possible via the modules available and the software being open source.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The most impactful feature of Drupal is that the software is open source. This means it is full extendable and allows new features to be created to enhance the product by end users. The flexibility this provides to continue growing a web site makes it priceless. The community around the project is amazing and has provided excellent modules to get a site up and running easily.

Cons:

The product does not lack features. There is a learning curve to get started, but every new product has a learning curve. The hook system allows integrating to the site, but does have a learning curve to understand the various hooks that are available.

Reasons for choosing Drupal

Drupal provided more features than those that were available with Joomla or WordPress. The user permission system and editing system was much more robust.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Stop using this

Created a small free website to demo look&feel to people. Not worth the work though.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Previously 1

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is free and there are templates to choose from. A decent number of people/website were built using Drupal so there are people who you can hire to build a website using it.

Cons:

It is very outdated. Runs on PHP which no one who is up to date with the modern world still uses. Javascript is the way to go.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Drupal is difficult but worth it

It was very difficult to get started with the product but I find the flexibility more than rewarding as I perceive an unlimited ceiling in developing with the product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Drupal's ability to fit every potential need is what originally drew me to the platform and keeps me developing in it's rich environment.

Cons:

It's very challenging to get started in Drupal. Naming conventions concerning views, nodes, taxonomy, menu items, panels, modules and tokens can be confusing and particularly overwhelming to a beginner.

Reasons for choosing Drupal

Drupal appeared to have the most professional large-company client base.

Reasons for switching to Drupal

Wordpress's core product was too simple and full of frustrating "gotchas". It seemed that to get anything setup except a basic site would require the purchasing of multiple plugins.

Verified

Reviewer

Religious Institutions

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Very well engineered CMS

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

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

We've been using Drupal for our websites for many years and have found it to be a very well engineered Content Management System (CMS). 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. It has been a pleasure to work with Drupal and how it has been designed from the ground up to handle all manner of complicated scenarios seamlessly.

Cons:

With the transition to Drupal 8 and beyond, a lot of contributed modules that we were using on Drupal 7 became unusable and there seems to be no plan to update these modules from the contributors. We've had to look into paying extra for custom module programming to update to Drupal 8.

Reasons for choosing Drupal

The superior data management system of Drupal.

Reasons for switching to Drupal

It was becoming unwieldy to use static HTML.

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Reviewer

Telecommunications

201-500 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Drupal will get you there, but it will be painful in the process...

Somewhat positive. Had I a chance to do it over, I probably would've just rolled a Wordpress site.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It was easy to deliver content to our thousands of resellers, capture leads and form data, roll out branded features in record time and host media blogs and video content. Most of the functionality was either baked in, or was available via 3rd party module install. Permissions and user accounts were managed via oAuth. There were very few things we couldn't accomplish with Drupal. The community around it is astoundingly good.

Cons:

Half-baked modules powered our sites; sometimes a module's creator would abandon the effort and it would cost us thousands of dollars in lost revenue. Bugs were everywhere when we tried to do something as simple as backup/migrate. Database issues galore. Multi-language websites (internationalization) were painful and confusing. Very few folks on the team knew enough to explain how to do things, and the Drupal foundation didn't do a great job of answering the phone--they overrcharged us for support through their commercial company, Acquia instead.

Reasons for switching to Drupal

More people said Drupal could handle roles and permissions better, and we could write our own modules around subscriptions for our user community. They won the battle so the company used Drupal.

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Drupal is still in the top 10 website platforms

Setup is kind of ruff if you are not a Drupal website developer. I recommend hiring a pro from the get-go. However, once the setup was complete and I found everything I needed, the website was very secure and also works perfectly every time I use it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The business directory platform on Drupal is one of the easiest and most reliable I have used. I have way fewer issues with the business directory module than I have with my other website platforms overall.

Cons:

Setup is very time-consuming and difficult. I ended up hiring an expert to finish the job because I couldn't get everything up and running on my own.

Reasons for switching to Drupal

I was unhappy with Joomla overall and wanted to try a different platform. I was having issues with the Joomla site and instead of investing back into that site, I tried Drupal. Drupal is a little bit better overall.

Verified

Reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Better Products Out There...

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

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This product has been around for a long time so we've used it for awhile and it's worked for us.

Cons:

As time passed, much better products came out that were easier to use. Drupal became an out-dated product that didn't work very well. It cost us more money to make changes to our website versus changing to something more streamlined.

Reasons for choosing Drupal

We ended up using the other product - Wordpress.

George Rex A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Drupal is a Tough CMS

My overall experience with Drupal is not rosy. I have barely used Drupal for up to 6 months, and the experience has been tough.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Drupal is secured, very secured. This is one thing I love about it. Unlike most CMSes in the market where their core could be easily affected by malware, Drupal ensures that the security of its core is seriously handled without compromise. And that is a big plus for them.

Cons:

Drupal is too difficult to use, especially in its deployment. I started loosing interest in the application when the installation was becoming cumbersome and taking longer than normal.

Reasons for choosing Drupal

I read about its security strengths and inbuilt integrations, which are major considerations for me in choosing applications.

Reasons for switching to Drupal

I wanted to try a CMS with less bloats.