Drupal- How does it stack against the competition?
February 23, 2016

Drupal- How does it stack against the competition?

Thomas Ongeri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Drupal

Drupal use is project based. Since we are an agency we use Drupal to add on to existing sites or suggest a build on Drupal if our clients need [to] match what the system can do.
  • Displays content effortlessly.
  • Has a huge community that supports the platform.
  • Easy to transport database features from one environment to the next.
  • Resource intensive.
  • Learning curve isn't easy for beginners.
  • Takes a long time to set up. Everything isn't out of the box.
  • Positive: Content editors are able to edit content on the site where before they would need engineers to edit, test and deploy.
  • Positive: Promotional campaign pages were easy to design and deploy within drupal themes.
  • Positive: Setting up and translating Drupal multi-language sites was easy to create and deploy.
Drupal is highly customizable unlike WordPress and Joomla. It may take a longer time to set up but it works well for the needs of the organizations it is set up for.
Drupal is well suited for government agencies and universities. It is also well suite in a place where you have a lot of users or need to highly customize a section of a site. It is not suited for small organizations where maintenance is a problem or a blog site with a few writers.

Drupal Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
10
Code quality / cleanliness
9
Admin section
6
Page templates
6
Library of website themes
2
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8
Publishing workflow
9
Form generator
9
Content taxonomy
9
SEO support
6
Bulk management
5
Availability / breadth of extensions
7
Community / comment management
8
API
9
Internationalization / multi-language
9
Role-based user permissions
10