Drupal User, but not Drupal Lover
July 25, 2016
Drupal User, but not Drupal Lover

Score 3 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Drupal
We utilize Drupal as the backend CMS for a website. It was implemented by the website design firm and handed over to us once the design process was completed, so we manage it ourselves now. It was basically implemented as a way to update the site without directly editing the HTML and to provide some additional functionality, such as user account management (website logins) and some basic scheduling.
Pros
- Drupal has a wide range of plugins, allowing for a huge amount of customization within the platform.
- Being that there is a free version, it's very affordable.
Cons
- The platform is not easy to upgrade in order to keep up with security updates.
- The large number of plugins makes the product a bit complex to deal with without some kind of outside consulting or significant programming experience.
- We've had to contract outside consultants to implement some recent security updates due to the complexity of the Drupal code-base. Most other changes we handled in-house.
We went with Drupal due to prior experience with Drupal as a CMS, however, the previous site was not as complex.
Drupal Feature Ratings
Evaluating Drupal and Competitors
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
The main reasons for selecting Drupal were the price and our web designers' familiarity with the platform. We'd also used it with another previous website and had some familiarity ourselves, though the complexity of that site was much less than current.
We'd probably still go with Drupal, but we would push more of the management off onto the webdesigner - at least in terms of long-term maintenance.
Using Drupal
Pros | Cons |
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Easy to use | Do not like to use Unnecessarily complex Requires technical support Inconsistent Slow to learn Feel nervous using Lots to learn |
- Basic page updates are very easy.
- Adding in plugins is very easy and many can be selected and enabled with just a few clicks from the admin console.
- Software/security updates are complex and can be difficult to perform for regular users.
- Wrapping a site template around the CMS can be difficult, we ended up contracting this out to a third party.
Yes, but I don't use it
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