--- title: Drupal Reviews meta_title: 'Drupal Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 424 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Drupal works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 424 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Drupal Reviews **Vendor:** Drupal **Category:** [Web Content Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 424 ## About Drupal Decoupled Drupal, also known as headless Drupal, is an architectural approach that separates Drupal's backend content management system from its frontend presentation layer. This separation allows developers to use Drupal as a robust content repository while building dynamic, interactive frontends with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue.js, or Angular. By decoupling, organizations can deliver content seamlessly across multiple channels, including websites, mobile applications, and IoT devices. Key Features and Functionality: - Content API: Drupal provides APIs such as JSON:API and GraphQL, enabling efficient content retrieval and manipulation for frontend applications. - Frontend Flexibility: Developers can choose any frontend technology, allowing for the creation of highly interactive and customized user interfaces. - Omnichannel Delivery: Content can be distributed across various platforms, ensuring a consistent user experience on web, mobile, and other digital channels. - Performance Optimization: Decoupled architectures can enhance performance by leveraging client-side rendering and integrating with content delivery networks (CDNs) for faster content delivery. - Scalability: The separation of concerns allows for independent scaling of the backend and frontend, accommodating growing user demands and traffic. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Decoupled Drupal empowers organizations to future-proof their digital presence by enabling design refreshes without overhauling the entire CMS. It facilitates the delivery of content across multiple devices and platforms, ensuring a cohesive and engaging user experience. By leveraging Drupal's built-in caching and rendering technologies, decoupled architectures can achieve faster content delivery, enhancing overall site performance. This approach also allows development teams to work in parallel, with frontend and backend developers focusing on their respective areas, leading to more efficient development cycles and quicker time-to-market for new features. ## Drupal Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find **customer support to be abundant** , with numerous resources and knowledgeable users ready to assist. (2 reviews) - Users value the **customizability** of Drupal, enabling tailored solutions for diverse web projects and marketing needs. (2 reviews) - Users love the **customization capabilities** of Drupal, enabling tailored solutions and flexible workflows that enhance functionality. (2 reviews) - Users value the **easy setup** of Drupal, facilitating quick website launches and effective content management. (2 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Drupal, enabling tailored solutions for diverse multisite and multilingual applications. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility and power** of Drupal, enabling efficient website management and seamless integrations. (2 reviews) - Users value the **scalability** of Drupal, enabling powerful solutions for diverse website and ecommerce needs. (2 reviews) - Adaptability (1 reviews) - API Integration (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Drupal, enabling efficient management of diverse web pages and content effortlessly. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find that **learning difficulty** arises from Drupal's complexity, especially during setup and custom module creation. (2 reviews) - Users often face **upgrade difficulties** with Drupal, complicating the maintenance of their sites over time. (2 reviews) - Users find that **complex coding** significantly hampers Drupal's accessibility for new site builders and developers. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** of Drupal challenging, particularly for newcomers and those unfamiliar with coding practices. (1 reviews) - Users find Drupal to be **expensive** due to high hosting costs and resource requirements for building and maintaining sites. (1 reviews) - Users find the **installation issues** challenging, especially new users struggling with complexity during setup and updates. (1 reviews) - Lack of Features (1 reviews) - Learning Curve (1 reviews) - Limited Customization (1 reviews) - Limited Features (1 reviews) ## Drupal Reviews ### 1. Drupal for the win! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The ease of use for end users is my favorite function, but also the ability to customize so specifically to clients needs from small sites such as one page portfolios to large mutlimedia sites such as weather.com is awesome for any developer. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** There is a steep learning curve for development on Drupal. It is not impossible, but it takes some time to learn how things work together and how to make sites function as needed. Once you have some experience under your belt, this problem is less and less. I do still have some frustrations daily when I can't figure out simple problems and I have been at it for over 6 years. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** I would recommend doing research between different CMS's to find the one that will best suit individual needs. From my perspective Drupal is amazing for end-users. If will be an end-user, Drupal is great! If you are a freelance developer looking to make quick money, Drupal might not be your first option considering how easy some other CMS's may be to get spun up, however, if you are looking for long term higher income, Drupal is a specialization that is highly marketable. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in higher education and Drupal has become a great way for our users, who are mostly administrative staff who might not always be familiar with working with websites. Being able to point and click to make edits within a browser has helped them keep sites up to date easily. ### 2. Drupal capable but messy **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mikko T. | Chief Innovation Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Active developer community and plugins for almost everything **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Things get messy really fast on the admin side of things **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Make sure to plan well, and only use well documented and tested plugins. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building brand visibly to a client in China ### 3. Look elsewhere, unless you have no choice. **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Think Tanks | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal has been around for such a long time, finding a consultant or firm who specializes in Drupal is a breeze. On the other hand, the quality of the work will vary drastically. You really need technical person on hand to vet the coding practices of the team who will work on your Drupal site. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The open-source and community-driven nature of the software means it is very difficult to debug. If you're working with Drupal yourself, expect to spend hours Googling and reading forum posts. Modules (like plugins) are often abandoned. Modules will frequently have obscure conflicts with certain versions of Drupal or other modules. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Hire an experienced consultant or firm to work on your Drupal site. Make sure to get recommendations and look at the sites they've built before hiring them. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some large organizations have no choice but to use Drupal. In those cases, it can be a great tool. It can be a robust, mature content management system, in the right hands. It allows site-builders and non-technical folks to manage their websites and do fairly complex operations (see: Views) without touching code. ### 4. Come for the software, stay for the community **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal is an extremely modular system that can do whatever you need it to do (with enough modules and code). If your client needs "XYZ" - you can do it. Drupal is "free" as in puppies. You don't pay anything to get it, but you should expect to take it to the vet, buy food for it, etc. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Because of what I like best (you can do anything you want), Drupal has historically been complicated to learn and write code for. The latest version, Drupal 8, is a step in the right direction, but still more complicated than other systems. As a result, Drupal websites tend to take longer to build and cost more money to implement. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** At the time of writing (May 31st, 2016) Drupal 8 is the best place to start. Not all contributed modules are ready for showtime, but the average website is going to do just fine starting in Drupal 8. The benefits (increased performance, user experience, security, etc) are worth the wait. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to engage more users in more ways. We can build complex systems for our endusers, while only exposing the to the parts of the website that they need to concern themselves with. Are you endusers laymen who don't know code? No problem! Give them a WYSIWYG interface and use the Paragraphs module or Panels to drag and drop various page elements into place. Our clients tend to be very happy with their Drupal websites after a little training. ### 5. Fine for what it is **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Flexible. Can bring in modules others have created easily. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Not very intuitive for non-technical users who are trying to use the CMS. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content management systems for publishers that are scaleable and flexible. ### 6. Not easy to use for the common user **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I am not sure. It's so difficult to navigate and set up. I prefer WordPress. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Everything, the UI is not very easy to follow, there are hidden capabilities that are difficult to find and figure out how to use. We have become so dependent on an agency because of these challenges. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** The website is nice, however has required a lot of customization and therefore we are not happy with the product. ### 7. 6 Plus Years of Drupal Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew D. | Full Stack Developer, International Affairs, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Ease of use for non-programmers. Handles a lot of the grunt work for user authentication and security. Vibrant community with a good amount of contributed code that allows you to build a pretty advanced CMS. With Drupal it now integrates well with the rest of the PHP world. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Pretty steep learning curve. While there's a lot of great contributed modules, sometimes they will only get you 90% of what you want and you find yourself pulling teeth to get that last 10% of functionality. Sometimes it's best just to write it all your self. It can also be difficult to find and hire quality Drupal developers. All the talent seems to end up in agencies which end up being quite expensive and favors large enterprise projects. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Find a great developer with at least 2+ years working in Drupal. Drupal has it's own best practices and syntax so just knowing PHP well doesn't always cut it (although this is changing with Drupal where knowing Symfony is very helpful). **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're solving a simple issue of managing a lot of content and users (a CMS!) and more of our team is non-technical. Drupal solves this need very well. ### 8. Drupal is ready for the futur **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sylvain G. | Directeur Technique, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I do like the embrace of Symfony2 component in Drupal8, the cimmunity is very active. Most component of drupal is as simple as possible. Node, Block, Page, User, Comment, Menu, Form, Cache etc... and integrate with each others. It is mainy a developper oriented CMS. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** On first install it is quite an empty shell which give a "bad" first impression. Media management is not feature full. WYSIWYG is not build-in (done in D8) Menu management is a bit too simple for some application, like multi-positionning content in menus. In d7 and less content localisation is quite a pain. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** lot's of online references drupal.org api.drupal.org some knowledge of OOP and Symfony framework will help alot with Drupal 8 **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We build communication websites quite fast and reliably. We build some web app projecr from a Drupal backend with REST WebServices interaction with some pure front end applications. ### 9. Drupal is an open source CMS and PHP framework, which sums it up completely **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas G. | WordPress Marketing Tech, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal is extremely flexible and scalable. It attracts one of the best open source communities around, and its contributed module library is expansive and equally powerful. It takes some of the best concepts of using a PHP framework while also adding on significant ready-to-use features. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Drupal's strength and greatest weakness is its flexibility. While other systems make assumptions regarding use, Drupal allows you, or rather your developer, to make those choices. This generally leads to longer setup times that make it ill-suited for small deployments and brochure sites. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** As with most open source software, Drupal requires an investment over time that can have a very good return. That investment comes down to having in-house staff that are involved in the Drupal community or paying for those expertise in a consultancy. Involvement in the community is the only way to fully leverage the work of the thousands of contributors to the project. It should be noted that while the number of Drupal developers is higher than other frameworks, the high demand can mean higher rates for contracted developers. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company deploys hundreds of sites each year. Drupal makes up a small portion of that whole, but is our go-to solution for large-scale highly interactive sites with unique feature-sets. Other open source web projects may feature many all-in-one plugins/modules as well as options for specific tasks, but Drupal tends to offer more generalized options. Rather than offering something like a "Paypal subscriptions" module, Drupal offers a "recurring payments" module that can then be leveraged by a number of different payment processors. This approach requires more development time, but is invaluable in larger projects with specific and/or shifting needs. In this particular case, a client switching from Paypal to Authorize.net need not re-engineer their entire payment process, but rather simply swap in their new credit processor. This approach carries over to other aspects such as content editing and administration. While the stock reports and interface are useful, but the real value comes from their customizability. Most of these changes can be made with the click of a mouse, but knowing where to click can be intimidating. All of this makes Drupal excellently fit for larger projects with a long lifespan, but not suited for microsites and other small-scale projects. ### 10. Drupal 7 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richarded W. | Computer Programmer Analyst II, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Hooks system in Drupal 7 makes it easier for Developer to interact both with core modules and community modules. It's basically following a observer design pattern. From development stand point, it speeds things up, and allowing better collaboration between the team members. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The hook system if not used efficiently could bog down the application. Since any module could implement their own hook, the more modules implement a specific hook, the more time the system will take bootstrapping. Another issue with Drupal 7 is when it comes to continuous delivery, things get a little muddy. The complexity increases as more and more developers are involved in the project. Since quite a bit of development can/may actually be done from admin UI, that leaves most of these settings outside of version control system. Makes it repetitive going from one environment to the other, e.g DEV to QA to UAT to PROD. And really there is no telling who or what changes on these UI as more and more developers are involved in the project. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** One major benefit is development turn around time. It is more obvious on the early phase of development with small number of developers. We use Drupal for government projects with millions of visitors each month, so performance, scalability and security are important factors to clients and our end users. ### 11. It is powerful and allows you to build solution for simple to complex applications with less effort **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** deepesh r. | Manager Consulting, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The best part is the architecture. Its plugin architecture allows me to use different combinations of modules to build solutions for a variety of complex problems. Also, Drupal community is known to be one of the best in providing support. We have built custom modules to provide business specific solutions for a variety of clients engaged in businesses ranging from Healthcare to Fashion, with maximum reuse of code base, which is only possible because of the well designed modular architecture. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The one thing that i dislike about Drupal is that it can be frustrating to debug the app. A comparatively less use of client side technologies causes the portals built in Drupal to be generally slower as compared to the newer products in the market. Apart from that some of the modules that aren't used a lot by the community can have very outdated documentation which makes it time consuming to navigate your way around a problem, but then again, it is an open source community contributed CMS, so i am just as much part of the problem as i am part of the solution. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** If you want to make it happen in less time more efficiently with reduced cost, this should be your first stop. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used D7 in a variety of applications. A few of the examples: 1. One of our customers is a health-care startups and we take care of their tech stack for them. We have built up their sever side technology on top of Drupal and compliment the client side stack in Android / iOS. 2. For another startup, we have again used Drupal to build up their portal for internal training and management of their sales force. 3. We have so far built custom solutions for Customer-Delight Measurement and Analytics for 7 different Enterprise Clients in varied fields ranging from Manufacturing, Retail, Finance to Textile and Fashion and have been able to re-use most of our code base with delta changes, which was only possible because of an efficient architecture. This has helped us save a lot of overhead and allowed us to deliver good quality product much ahead in time and at a lower cost compared to competition. ### 12. Drupal: a view from the cutting edge of web development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Organizer and Founding Member, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** You can create websites with Drupal more rapidly than you can by hand coding, when the website properly fits the Drupal work flow paradigm. While it was not a dedicated blogging system, Drupal was a blog like website frame work and CMS combination. Today it has evolved into is a general framework for building many kinds of sites. It is this flexibility that is its main strength. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** For any non-trivial website a large number of add-on modules are mandatory. Many times such critical modules are abandoned by their maintainers or nor ported to the next major version of Drupal. This means that a website that depends upon a critical but abandoned module will either: remain online running on an obsolete version of the software; be rebuilt with another module that can do the work (possibly loosing the data that had been used by the old module); or the site will be upgraded while abandoning the features the needed that module to operate. Due to the nature of websites built with Drupal as well as Drupal's lack of a solid upgrade path between major versions, there is very little chance for any non-trivial website to simply be "upgraded" from one major release to the next. For this reason an add-on module for data migration was added to the core modules for Drupal 8.x With the migration module, data from a Drupal 7.x or older could be extracted, converted and added to a Drupal 8.x site with minimal data and context loss. Drupal has a large memory footprint. Drupal requires PHP to be configured to provide from 128Megs up to more practical minimum of 256Megs of memory per page load instance in order to deliver the performance that site visitors would expect from a modern website. Drupal's ( 7.x) general infrastructure and module API are not suited to support the the cutting edge features of the modern web. With add-on modules it is possible to add in some of these, but it is not a good choice for anything that would use WebGL, WebRTC, custom elements etc. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** If it fits the style of site that you wish to build, then use it; but do not try to force it to go beyond its limits. Avoid sub-views when creating a complex view with the views module, that can be a real performance killer. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has always served as a viable platform for the more classic sites used for web presence and store fronts etc, quite well. For simple websites that for various reasons, do not fit well into the niches of the more specialized website software such as Zencart and WordPress, Drupal is the goto tool to get a site up and running in a short time compared to hand coding. ### 13. Drupal rocks, or why you should use the world's best CMS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelly B. | Founder, CTO and Lead Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal CMS provides unparalleled flexibility, robustness, security, value, internationalization, performance, community support and longevity compared to any other CMS. My personal favorite attribute of Drupal is that it's open source. "Come for the code, stay for the community" is the Drupal motto, for good reason. Drupal has a rich, diverse, international community of well over 750,000 programmers, designers, business users and devops specialists who are devoted to building the best CMS in the world. The open source movement is much more than a software-production method. It's a philosophy about sharing and community solutions. Above all, the open source movement is about changing the world from a scarcity model to one of abundance, and that's very important to me. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Compared to other available CMS', absolutely nothing.. Drupal 8, especially, (released late 2015) is so clearly superior to every other CMS available for the vast majority of applications, there's little chance I'd use anything else at this time. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Contact sigint AT GothamCityDrupal DOT com for a free consultation to discuss what Drupal can do for your business. Visit Drupal.org to learn more about Drupal CMS. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since I'm a developer, that list is very long indeed. Just for a start: - superior ecommerce performance - responsive, mobile-first presentation layer - integration with anything with an API, including such popular applications as lead generation (SilverPop, Eloqua, etc), email marketing (MailChimp, etc), - internationalization (many hundreds of languages supported, with an easy-to-use and innovative translation contribution system designed to make incorporating even rarely-spoken languages easy. - highly-performant (super fast page views, especially in conjunction with Varnish, Nginx, Redis, and with the use of CDNs - expense - Drupal is an open source CMS, which means it's free. You can pay for customization and professional set up by choosing from a massive community (over 750,000 developers), but you don't have to. Coupled with reasonably-priced, high-value hosting on Drupal-specific platforms (especially Pantheon (https://pantheon.io) Drupal is a no-brainer CMS solution. - maintenance and support: with a truly huge community of professional programmers and robustly-enforced best practices, business users get the best of both worlds (open source and proprietary) Note that the following question about company size is irrelevant in this case. Drupal is suitable for ALL sizes of users, both internally and online. And that wasn't a choice given in the list. My company builds Drupal sites for every size company, from personal to the largest Enterprise-level ### 14. Most flexible CMS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean-Maxime C. | Co-fondateur et directeur technique / Cofounder and technical director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Flexibility of the product is amazing. Hooks and alters make it possible to achieve mostly anything we want to. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Learning curve is hard, so it is hard to find people to collaborate on a project or to train people to our development strategies. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** It might be hard to sell Drupal to your clients since Wordpress is well-known these days. But they will be grateful after a while. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drupal allowed us to develop high-end website without recoding a complete CMS. ### 15. Great platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Interface, easy to use, free (can't beat that!) **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Upgrading security patches is a bit of a pain, and the number of available plugins is staggering. And backwards compatibility can be a bit of a challenge to deal with. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Make sure you start with Drupal 8's most updated iteration, and be prepared for a lot of patches before implementation. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Website development. Being free definitely helps with the price point, and using it with PHP has been great. ### 16. Easy for a big company, but not always the most user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal is easy enough to be incorporated into a large company with multiple users of various IT backgrounds. The final products look professional and give a consistent look during a webpage overhaul. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Some of the interfaces are not the most user-friendly and addressing customization issues sometimes had people with webpage design opting for direct coding. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Worth the learning curve in many situations, but helpful to have an experienced user/consultant to deal with company wide troubleshooting. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We underwent a complete brand shift and update after many years. The final product was definitely a huge upgrade and it was great that the platform enabled a lot of collaboration. ### 17. Drupal Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua W. | CEO & Co Founder, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The modular structure of Drupal and the ability to 'hook' in and alter functionality as low as the core components, without having to modify those core files, makes Drupal really stand out versus alternative software. Drupal and its community are also very engineer-minded, versus a designer-oriented software which has proven itself in the type of tools available for Drupal project building & management. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** I dislike the old theming engine from Drupal 7 and below. This has been replaced by Twig in D8. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Can be a steeper learning curve. If you need something ultra-basic, Drupal can do it, but it is more catered to large scale, enterprise projects. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** CRUD, Services (Web services / APIs - both as endpoint or receiver/puller), DevOps, E-commerce. Drupal makes iterative development easy. The ability to version control (e.g. Git) the MySQL database (via Features or Config Management)! ### 18. Drupal site administrator **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jake K. | Sr Graphic Designer, Education Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Other people that don't know web coding can help update content so it's not entirely on me. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Overly complicated UI and not intuitive to make layout changes or edit CSS. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Try something different **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are other people that can assist managing the website. Translation of pages is also more manageable than a standard HTML site and server file structure. ### 19. Very Difficult Setup **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter K. | Help Desk Analyst, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** It's versatility (CMS, intranet, web-site) **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The setup of sql, php, apache seemed a bit cumbersome. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Give yourself at least a week to setup and get comfortable with it. Once you are familiar it is an amazing product. Before you get familiar it can be a real headache. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing users with an all in one solution for CMS, workflow, and collaboration. ### 20. Durpal in Higher Education **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric J. | Web Developer, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The ability to customize the Drupal install to fit my institution's needs. In addition, the robust community and widespread use allows me easily reach out to colleagues in order to address problems. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The learning curve is rather steep with Drupal. Getting a new developer up to speed with all of the different systems used to create a theme, a module or a site can be cumbersome. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Download it, install it and give it a try. There's almost nothing it can't do. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drupal is the primary CMS for my university. It replaced a commercial CMS 6 years ago and has done an outstanding job of adapting to the university's needs and providing a secure and stable platform for delivering the university's message. ### 21. I've made a career for myself with the knowledge gained from Drupal. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy M. | Drupal Developer, Professional Training & Coaching, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The best thing about Drupal is the flexibility and complex functionality available for developing a site without necessarily knowing advanced PHP and Javascript. Major projects can be accomplished with Drupal where other CMS's could not even come close to achieving. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The most difficult part of Drupal is the learning curve for developing with the API. Basic websites are a little more complicated to create with Drupal out of the box due to the level of functionality provided. Luckily, my projects are all larger in scope and additionally the new version Drupal 8 is going to make developing any site 10 times easier. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Embrace the API, learn to develop simple modules by exploring code from others. Become an expert in the Views Module which is now a core module in Drupal 8. Complex queries are a snap with Views. Embrace the power and flexibility of the field api but understand how data is stored and related before building a long questionaire type form with hundreds of fields which would impact performance. Be active in the community by answering questions to help others and submitting patches to make Drupal better. The community recognizes those who contribute back and the knowledge gained in return is huge for your career. Just try it... you'll love it! **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to tackle virtually any project with the vast number of modules available through drupal and a well documented API that allows for custom functionality over and above. The benefits I've realized are primarily that with Drupal, I've never had to turn down any project regardless of the requirements since the large number of module contributors have likely already accomplished a similar task and shared back to the community. The ability to leverage the skillsets of other more experienced developers has transitioned my role as "web designer" to "web developer" which has made me considerably more marketable and increased my income. I have quadrupled my income with Drupal over a 6 year period. ### 22. Drupal is a great and accessible website tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elizabeth L. | Publications Coordinator and Program Operations Specialist, Publishing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Important for our job, it can be used accessibly and design accessible websites. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** While I don't do all of the backend work, I do think having more instruction and ease of use could be helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** I think more resources to work with would be nice. Searching could be a lot better. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Drupal for all of our website needs. Drupal really helps us create an accessible website and interact more with the public. ### 23. Drupal is maturing, but not quite there yet. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Capital Markets | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The Symfony 2 integration. The roles system. The integration of popular community modules into Drupal 8 (e.g. Chaos Tools). **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Horrible developer experience, despite being advertised as having a better developer experience than Drupal 7. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Drupal 8 is a step in the right direction. I once asked the drupal community how they expected new developers, those coming from MVC backgrounds, to learn their system. I was met with a response of (paraphrasing) "Drupal 8 is Symfony2, with a lot of historical 'drupalisms'". Unfortunately, if you don't have the time to learn these various "drupalisms", I'd suggest steering clear of Drupal until Drupal 9, or a very mature Drupal 8, in about 3 - 4 years. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was attempting to leverage the community. Unfortunately, while drupal may have a community - it's not a very mature one. You can leverage far more from the mature Node.js community, for instance. The community's tooling was getting there (e.g. Drupal Console), but was still underdeveloped and buggy. The biggest benefit I realized during use was the ability to easily communicate with members of the community on IRC, drupal.org or other common areas. Unfortunately, it was almost always to get clarification on poorly documented APIs. ### 24. Drupal: A Powerful Framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob M. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I liken Drupal to a Lego kit. At the outset all you have is a pile of pieces. But given time and know-how you can build pretty much anything with it. So, it's a great tool for creating customized solutions for specific needs. Drupal core is well structured and the 30,000+ contributed modules provide a powerful resource for adding functionality and extending features. I've been working with Drupal since version 4.7 (Drupal 8 is set to be released on November 19) and have found a huge strength in the platform is the community of contributors. This makes finding help when needed a snap. Everyone I have worked with in the community has been gracious and understanding. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Drupal's approach, which is to provide a framework rather than a monolithic solution means that getting started can be daunting. It took us quite a while to really begin to understand the best approach. Now we create our own install profiles that are pre-configured with a core set of modules and settings that let us ramp up a new project quickly. The other aspect that is both a strength and problem with Drupal is that every major release undergoes a thorough review process that leads to the rewriting of core code and systems. This means that the cycle of releases can take many years to complete and that many features are not backward compatible. Module have to be rewritten to fit the new system and older sites often take a lot of work to move from one version to another. While this is frustrating it does mean newer version are not just piled on top of older versions but are new visions with new code and new approaches. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Talk to people who have used it and learn the benefits and pain points. But if you are comfortable with PHP/MySQL, Javascript and CSS you can build pretty much anything. If you only need a quick site solution with quick and easy solutions, I would look elsewhere. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our biggest successes with Drupal have been with larger sites that require unique solutions and types of content. Because of the granularity of the system we can build the sites up from the ground up. We've also written a few modules ourselves in order to solve specific problems and those have found their way into our install profiles and have been contributed back to the community. ### 25. Excellent for complex solution & when development & maintance team are big enough **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The Drupal community is excellent. Many friendly people and an overall helpful community. So whatever your expertise is at when you start with Drupal, the community will help you on your learning curve. If you use Drupal for the right purpose with an appropriate team behind it, I believe it is one of the best CMS, because it can do pretty much anything CMS related. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Drupal is high maintenance. It scales well and is very capable, & very easy to modify. The price you pay for this kind of flexibility is that it requires an a rather large skill set to run it professionally and/or considerable (wo)manpower to keep it fast and secure. Just one example: All of my drupal sites were hacked eventually because I wasn't able to play in updates in time, i.e. on an almost daily basis. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to use drupal for internal communication in international projects and for representing the project online. ### 26. A Technical Architect who build Drupal Sites for clients. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I like the flexibility and customization provided by Drupal to make it work for my particular needs and workflow. This is due impart to it being an open source project with a very active community, whom continue to contribute to Drupal. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** I dislike the initial learning curve required to learn the Drupal admin interface and development paradigms. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Drupal is open source, that means there is no direct "vendor" or license. However, there are service companies who offer enterprise support for Drupal. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Drupal to solve business problems for many clients across multiple verticals. I have used Drupal as a CMS for small scale brochure ware websites, to global multi-language complex user platforms. I have realized that the biggest benefit provided by using Drupal is the flexibility it provides as a CMS. You can truly customize the workflow and experience to fit your particular needs. ### 27. It's an amazing product developed from collaboration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David Francisco L. | Desarrollador Web Sr., Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The best of drupal are all modules, plugins, themes and aggregate code by a lot of developers from wide world, and a lot of contribution are open source. Anyone can start from kernel for drupal, and build some amazing, more fast and powerful. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** It's so hard the learning curve, the power of Drupal is at the same time his worst enemy. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Drupal is always developed by a lot of people in wide world, constant bug fixes and continually updates with security fixes, that convert a Drupal into a powerful system, always at day and secure. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster develop: ecommerce, forums, websites and custom requirements for management into small companies. ### 28. Needs a bit of learning and then you can do anything **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rastislav . | Drupal Specialist, Broadcast Media, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Easy setup, great module base and large community is good start. When you get to know drupal well, you can do almost everything in there. It's nice framework not only CMS. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Some things don't work out-of-the box and nee a bit of tweaking. Some modules doesn't work as expected, but almost everything can be fixed. Coding standards are not very standard. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Online eshop - user registration, authenticated users cache Convetion website Fan page different microsites system for quizes system for simple communication with radio guest and listeners (answes and questions) - administration, UI for guests and json + js embeddable output ### 29. CMS Refresh **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Museums and Institutions | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Speed at which content can be edited, previewed, and published improves workflow. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Limitations on page layout and design to predetermined templates. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Be very clear on your needs and vision for a website using Drupal, particularly if another company will be building the website framework for you to work within. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better communicating our organization's products and services sigh improved responsiveness. ### 30. Developer with multiple drupal distributions **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** The flexible data model was nice for building out different objects within a website, more than just Posts. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Every distribution, plugin, etc is done differently. There is little standardization that I've seen across the drupal community. Each part I pick up I have to figure out how they did X and Y because its different. Dependency resolution is a big one. Even for the site admins, you become a specialist in one particular distribution Also I would constantly run into problems in larger distributions, getting everything to work on newer versions of php, there would always be some plugin or extension that has compatibility problems. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Start with Drupal 8, skip everything before that. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consistency among multiple websites (look, feel, and functionality), maintaining lots of websites under a common framework for minimal work. ### 31. Administrator and developer for Drupal 6.37 **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I like flexibility to create content and different type of content to adapt my site to what I need. Also I love and at the same time I hate the hook system. I like the huge community around Drupal and the quantity and quality of modules. Documentation is so good. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** I think that It has to be improved in order to be easy the upgrade system from core and modules. I think it's quite difficult to upgrade major versions. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** My recommendation is about downloading and using modules from Drupal: Only use modules really important for your bussiness, fewer modules better because it will difficult upgrade. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Drupal together with Kaltura as a commenting system for our audience for images, audio, video and text user generated content. ### 32. It has a great community! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal is really easy to use, appealing, inviting. Every time I want to try something new, the module is already there, when I have a bug, someone had my exact problem already, everything gets fixed in notime, or else, someone helps you out. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Sometimes I have to settle for a module that i dont completely like or understand... I guess that's until i get to make my own! **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thanks to Drupal I've configurated over 10 different websites. I like creating my own administration dashboards with panels and quickviews. I find it easy to make them really intuitive and easy to use. (I know there is a module for that, I prefer doing it like this) ### 33. Drupal : As flexible as your requirements **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** 1. Flexibility. 2. Power in the hands of site Admin 3. Plethora of contributed modules. 4. Community Support. 5. Security. 6. Open Source **What do you dislike about Drupal?** When the contributed modules doesn't meet your need it might be difficult alter the behaviour. The learning curve is huge. For big projects with many fields the architecture may not be suitable. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Please check out the latest version of Drupal . If you are looking at lots of fields and large content Drupal may not be a right choice for you. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editorial Websites - Easy to create workflows, intuitive content editing screens. Marketing Automation - Creating Unified interface using existing drupal modules. Commerce - Very less time to market. Can create a store and add products very easily. ### 34. Provides a very powerful API and content management experiace to build robust web app. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal have a robust API that covers everything you do using the admin interface, and that make it highly customizable and well integrated for web applications. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** There are two things in Drupal that make it not faverable to work with: - The learning curve of Drupal. - Drupalism, Drupal have its own terminology and glossary that make it really hard to understand (some times you miss-understand things just because of the term used to describe it). **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked with Drupal to solve a lot of problems for vary and wide set of clients: - News papers. - Media satellite channels/networks. - ICT providers. - Profile and companies identity. - Social media applications. - Mobile Application and APIs. ### 35. Drupal - User-friendly website management. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Ease of use. Adding and removing content from the website is pretty simple. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Customization is tricky. As with many WISIWYG type editors, you have to know some HTML to really get what you want. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content posting. ### 36. Powerful CMS, but requires a lot of expertise to be used effectively **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Valerio D. | IT Infrastructure Manager, Automotive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Powerful, extensible and heavily customizable, a lot of extensions available **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Too complex for a beginner, requires too much work for simple sites. For expert developers and not for occasional users **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** A CMS with the possibility to implement extensions for a specific application. The possibility to write extensions was feasible thanks to the very good Drupal architecture. ### 37. Great system for rapid website launches **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** You can use Drupal to get a basic membership and content website online in a couple of hours. The learning curve is steeper than WordPress, but there are more features. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** It can be very difficult to customize and upgrade in some situations. You will need to know PHP and Drupal's ways of doing things if you want to do much customization outside of the contributed modules. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Definitely include it in your considered software if you're building a content based website with membership. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've build many online communities and content websites with it. ### 38. Drupal is pretty great. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** OPEN SOURCE. As a developer, I love how I can just dive in and feel at home. Some of the sites can be highly advanced. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** I feel like there is a high barrier to entry with Drupal. I didn't have any problems since I am familiar with development, but if I weren't it would be difficult. Also, installation was a little bit annoying. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm building a rental service for common household items, such as gardening tools. I use Drupal for blogging, and it has sped up content delivery. ### 39. Drupaltastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I love that Drupal is built and powered by an active open-source community. Instead of working on your site alone, you have thousands of other people helping keep your site in tip-top shape. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** There is a bit of a learning curve, but that's true for just about anything in the field of web development. The reward is worth the effort of learning Drupal. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drupal is great for replacing large, complex, outdated sites in large organizations with many users and stakeholders. When you've finished setting your site up, you give control back to the editors and website administrators. Drupal's ecosystem is built to give them the flexibility they need without being overwhelming, thus returning a sense of ownership to content creators. ### 40. Experienced developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitriy G. | Senior Web Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Modularity. Rich API. Core API documentation. Form API. Admin pages. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Speed, hook API. AHAH API. Ajax API. Database API. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Do not overuse modules, plan forward. Write your own modules for your own stuff. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** E-commerce, news, blogs, gallery, portfolio. ### 41. Drupal Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I love that Drupal is open source, I like working with a open minded community and drupal is all about that ! **What do you dislike about Drupal?** Sometime drupal can be very hard to use, if you have to do something specific you have to cut corners.. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Use is if you are really sure what drupal is and what it can do. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work for a company that help scientific publish their work online. ### 42. Out of the available choices for CMS's, Drupal is my goto CMS when architecting sites and platforms. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal is flexible for use in developing larger scale applications. The core functionality and api allow for strong custom tailoring of functionality to fit specific content and business needs. The CMS is geared towards users of all skill levels from the point-and-clink "armchair" developer to the more experienced coder. As well, the system is very scalable with the right attention to detail. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The CMS can be quite heavy when developing a small scale site and requires a more experienced developer to understand such and accommodate. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Make considerations for the size, scale and complexity of your data and/or content and choose what fits best. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of the solutions that were implemented using Drupal were large scale publishing platforms and government entities that had more intricate data structures and requirements. Benefits realized were that Drupal was flexible to fit the requirements and scale along with the traffic. ### 43. Droom with Drupal **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Software Engineer, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** You Don't really have to code much. you just click click and click you ll get your result. Drupal saves you from hassle task and its fun doing that. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** No Proper tutorial's for the beginner's. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a Admin you may feel that it is too easy to handle the admin panel without a Tech guy. ### 44. Drupal Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** I really like the Framework which Drupal provide to developers. And Drupal have a good user interface to manager the content. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** In Drupal Market is difficult to search programmers because the learning curve is big **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drupal is very good to use in Portals and have some modules to do it. ### 45. Drupal (D7 & D8) is the most powerful CMS in the planet - simply awesome. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Drupal Views and Drupal Features, Drupal custom entity type. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** In web application performance is really matter. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** I do recommend to use drupal to use. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** youth1.com (large CMS), familybusinessmagazine.com, directorsandboards.com, privatecompanydirector.com, exhaustsystemsdirect.com and so on...(50+ other site I developed using drupal 7) ### 46. Poweful, but user experience lacking **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Large pool of cheap developers available. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** As a general purpose tool Drupal often leads to mediocre results. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Drupal does not solve all the problems and many of the free modules are of bad quality. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** eCommerce and Content Management ### 47. Highly customizable, but less usable for non-developers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2015 **What do you like best about Drupal?** 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. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** Drupal's strength is its versatility. If you have some coding background, you'll be pleased with how easy it is to make your website look and function the way you'd like it to. If you don't have coding background, or you don't have the resources to hire a developer, you should consider a more user-friendly CMS like WordPress or Joomla. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** When it comes down to it, making a site with Drupal is much easier than designing something from scratch using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. The greatest benefit I've found is not having to worry (as much) about security. Easy maintenance, design, and extensibility are icing on the cake. ### 48. Drupal Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristen L. | Digital Marcom Specialist - Global Marketing Strategy, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Drupal?** Easy to input data once your website is built. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** A bit hard to change HTML coding if you aren't super experienced. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it to manage several of our microsites. ### 49. Drupal is Awesome **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Drupal?** 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 **What do you dislike about Drupal?** The architecture or you can call it a transition from Drupal 6 - 7 **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating custom websites have been easy because of Drupal. ### 50. Perfect for Complex Information **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amanda L. G. | User Experience Librarian, Libraries, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2015 **What do you like best about Drupal?** 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. **What do you dislike about Drupal?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Drupal:** If you have a complex problem that you are seeking to solve, Drupal is the best open source and free solution for website construction. However, you will need to learn its ins and outs in order to use the software to its full advantage. I cannot stress enough how important it is to understand your business needs to the tiniest degree and have the big picture of what Drupal is capable of handling. **What problems is Drupal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have built multiple sites using Drupal. One in particular is an international site to help library science instructors collaborate on their syllabi. The site was built in Drupal 6. I had multiple content types to capture standardized data entry on bibliographic records like a specific version of a book that was used in the classroom. Feeds were utilized to pull in data from related websites. Finally, the site was meant to be used with international editors. So a system was in place to allow for multiple levels of editors. The site used a Google Translate module to do a general translation. 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