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Drupal: Titan of Open Source
March 03, 2018

Drupal: Titan of Open Source

Charles Hogan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Drupal

The global education services division is driven by websites designed to market and recruit online degree programs for prospective students and consumers. 95 percent of those websites are built with Drupal. Through these websites we gather information vital to the company's business strategies.
  • Drupal is an open source CMS and has a vibrant community supporting it.
  • Drupal's core package offers a great out-of-box product that can easily be modified to meet any business need.
  • The community dedication to contrib modules is second to none. There's a module for just about everything you could imagine, want, or need on a website.
  • Excellent administrative framework and user-based interface allows for custom role creation and specific access levels based on credentials.
  • Being open source, there isn't a company solely dedicated to it, which can sometimes represent challenges for bugs associated with specific modules.
  • Frequent releases require upgrading to maintain support for active components.
  • Flexibility and options are vast, but not necessarily intuitive for the non-experienced or web novices.
  • Requires a developer.
  • Our business is dependent on the consumers we attract through our websites. Drupal allows us to meet the demands of our various partners on one platform. This is a huge factor in terms of maintaining an able workforce.
  • Drupal provides us the flexibility in terms of customizable elements and scalable entities to grow our client base and confidently display our portfolio to potential new business partners.
  • Each of our Drupal environments is handcrafted to provide a consistent, informative, and unique user experience, which makes an easier decision the investment of our product.
Drupal is more robust in every way than these other CMS options. The module library, the vast theme options, and the user defined roles make this the CMS for any job.
Drupal is suited for every web-based scenario my company has thrown at it. It's produced a reliable, quality product for many years, and it's only getting better with time.

Drupal Feature Ratings

10.0
WYSIWYG editor
10
Code quality / cleanliness
10
Admin section
10
Page templates
10
Library of website themes
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
10
Publishing workflow
10
Form generator
10
10.0
Content taxonomy
10
SEO support
10
Bulk management
10
Availability / breadth of extensions
10
Community / comment management
10
10.0
API
10
Internationalization / multi-language
10
10.0
Role-based user permissions
10
CMS programming language or framework ()
Not Rated

Using Drupal

It has everything I want in a CMS Aand offers an array of opportunities for things I didn't know I needed that make my life and my job a lot easier and more pleasurable.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Convenient
Feel confident using
Slow to learn
  • Navigating the user interface
  • Creating and maintaining content
  • Menu settings and site navigation
  • Launching a website can be tedious and may take longer than it would with a template-heavy, all-in-one website builder. But, there's a serious downside to using those options instead of Drupal.
  • Setting up your webforms to export the data gathered from users can be difficult at first, but one example can easily be scaled.
  • Creating a custom theme requires more advanced knowledge than having an artistic eye.
Yes - It's pretty similar to the desktop experience in terms of available options and interface layout.