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Drupal 7.14
Category: CMS / PortalsStable Release: 7.14
Started In: 2000
Updated: May 11 2012
Native Language: English
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
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jl
Apr 20 2012, 3:20 pm
Apr 20 2012, 3:20 pm
THE issue for me in using Drupal is that it is god awful to update - it is a multistep process that takes a long time. For this reason alone I shy away from Drupal.
user who
Mar 28 2012, 2:25 pm
Mar 28 2012, 2:25 pm
Drupal is not for contributor developers. New modules, forks and their developers are hunted down with no mercy.
If you want to become a contributor developer, please think twice.
One reason is that the core architecture is a fast changing one. Updating your modules to fit the Drupal changes is a nightmare. Today you are satisfied with your knowledge on Drupal, and tomorrow you will feel a dumb.
Second reason? You won't be able to fix existing and unmaintained modules and you are not allowed to fork them (against GPL but Drupal policy). Exactly: you are, but you have to keep for yourself.
Last reason: See the demo here. Somehow Drupal took a direction leading to the obscurity. This is unfortunate ... but expected.
If you want to become a contributor developer, please think twice.
One reason is that the core architecture is a fast changing one. Updating your modules to fit the Drupal changes is a nightmare. Today you are satisfied with your knowledge on Drupal, and tomorrow you will feel a dumb.
Second reason? You won't be able to fix existing and unmaintained modules and you are not allowed to fork them (against GPL but Drupal policy). Exactly: you are, but you have to keep for yourself.
Last reason: See the demo here. Somehow Drupal took a direction leading to the obscurity. This is unfortunate ... but expected.
GT
Mar 22 2012, 3:14 pm
Mar 22 2012, 3:14 pm
Totally agree what Mark said on Feb 20 2012, 7:09 am. Drupal is for developers, Drupal is best for developers.
Robert
Feb 20 2012, 11:14 pm
Feb 20 2012, 11:14 pm
It looks like you have Drupal fans and Wordpress fans.
I belong to the second ones. Actually I started to develop many sites with Drupal, but then preferred Wordpress. It is simply awesome.
For instance flexibility: there is no better CMS regarding flexibility.
But what made me change was performance. I find Drupal's performances not good enough on larger projects.
I belong to the second ones. Actually I started to develop many sites with Drupal, but then preferred Wordpress. It is simply awesome.
For instance flexibility: there is no better CMS regarding flexibility.
But what made me change was performance. I find Drupal's performances not good enough on larger projects.
Sarah
Feb 20 2012, 7:51 pm
Feb 20 2012, 7:51 pm
I hate Drupal 7 because its really hard to develop on (good) shared hosts- I keep running into memory errors with a 64M limit. This should not happen! Back to drupal 6.
Mark
Feb 20 2012, 7:09 am
Feb 20 2012, 7:09 am
Drupal, Is by far the best CMS ever. I am a PHP developer and developing additional functionality to drupal is better than any other platform. At first I found it complex and hard to understand but as a developer once you learn the important things, CCK, theming, hooks, and module development basics, it makes other platforms seem stupid.
There are alot of modules that need to be installed to make it manageable, I have an installation that is cloned for new developments with at least 20 modules preinstalled that I cant live without. Wordpress is great for simple sites, and it still has drupal beat in administration. Alot of my development goes towards making administration better. Wordpress is a good choice if it fits your needs. But if you want flexibility drupal is king. Not sure why joomla exists because it is not as flexible as drupal or as easy as wordpress.
There are alot of modules that need to be installed to make it manageable, I have an installation that is cloned for new developments with at least 20 modules preinstalled that I cant live without. Wordpress is great for simple sites, and it still has drupal beat in administration. Alot of my development goes towards making administration better. Wordpress is a good choice if it fits your needs. But if you want flexibility drupal is king. Not sure why joomla exists because it is not as flexible as drupal or as easy as wordpress.
lechugas
Feb 3 2012, 6:41 pm
Feb 3 2012, 6:41 pm
Wordpress has all the features Drupal has, and much more. Wordpress has over 12 000 plugins. There is no way that Drupal will come close to that.
In the past Drupal could claim it has CCK and views modules. But these nice modules are now also available for Wordpress.
In the past Drupal could claim it has CCK and views modules. But these nice modules are now also available for Wordpress.
Henry
Jan 31 2012, 5:55 pm
Jan 31 2012, 5:55 pm
Wordpress has become a real killer.
No wonder why it was awarded best CMS over Drupal and Joomla.
Wordpress has all the features Drupal has, and much more. Wordpress has over 12 000 plugins. There is no way that Drupal will come close to that.
In the past Drupal could claim it has CCK and views modules. But these nice modules are now also available for Wordpress.
I don’t say that Drupal is bad. You can do good stuff with it. But why work with a CMS when you can find a much better one and much easier to use?
I had to build several website with Drupal (also Drupal 7.x) because of customers’ requirements. But everytime I can, I push another CMS (Wordpress very often).
This said, Drupal has several flaws.
- Drupal is very poor on many important features that are common with Wordpress. To name just a few: forum, picture gallery, social site.
- Next, the more you install modules on Drupal, the worse are the performances of your site. Compare Drupal with any other CMS with equal features, and you’ll see the difference in performance.
So if you plan to use Drupal on a shared hosting, just forget it.
Drupal is certainly the worst CMS regarding performances.
- Next, Drupal admin is crap. But I think many others have already written about that. So I won’t extend the issue. But it is always a nightmare to train customer on that one.
- Last, Drupal is unfriendly to use. Not intuitive and desperately confused.
So what’s the reason to use Drupal (or Joomla) when you have Wordpress that solve (almost) all your needs in a much better way? And that is a breeze to use.
No wonder why it was awarded best CMS over Drupal and Joomla.
Wordpress has all the features Drupal has, and much more. Wordpress has over 12 000 plugins. There is no way that Drupal will come close to that.
In the past Drupal could claim it has CCK and views modules. But these nice modules are now also available for Wordpress.
I don’t say that Drupal is bad. You can do good stuff with it. But why work with a CMS when you can find a much better one and much easier to use?
I had to build several website with Drupal (also Drupal 7.x) because of customers’ requirements. But everytime I can, I push another CMS (Wordpress very often).
This said, Drupal has several flaws.
- Drupal is very poor on many important features that are common with Wordpress. To name just a few: forum, picture gallery, social site.
- Next, the more you install modules on Drupal, the worse are the performances of your site. Compare Drupal with any other CMS with equal features, and you’ll see the difference in performance.
So if you plan to use Drupal on a shared hosting, just forget it.
Drupal is certainly the worst CMS regarding performances.
- Next, Drupal admin is crap. But I think many others have already written about that. So I won’t extend the issue. But it is always a nightmare to train customer on that one.
- Last, Drupal is unfriendly to use. Not intuitive and desperately confused.
So what’s the reason to use Drupal (or Joomla) when you have Wordpress that solve (almost) all your needs in a much better way? And that is a breeze to use.
Lowell Montgomery
Jan 24 2012, 8:40 am
Jan 24 2012, 8:40 am
Drupal is awesome, with a dynamic and fun-loving community of developers and themers behind it. If you are building a complex site and have the time to get over the learning curve, it's hard to go wrong with Drupal. OTOH, if you already have a Drupal 6 site, as Cassady said, migrating to Drupal 7 may be more trouble than it's worth. For the same effort (assuming you are even successful with getting your desired features all working), you could probably make significant improvements to a Drupal 6 site that might be more worthwhile than the migration to Drupal 7. I would only suggest upgrading a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 if you really need some features which are impossible to add with Drupal 6 (but even mobile support and a lot of things that might be easier to implement on a fresh Drupal 7 site are still possible with Drupal 6). Of course it depends on the complexity of your site and when you attempt to upgrade, but my assessment, at this time (and at least for the site I was working on) is that the upgrade path for many contributed modules is a bumpy road better left untraveled…
Jovelyn
Jan 5 2012, 11:58 pm
Jan 5 2012, 11:58 pm
i need this version of Drupal...
Cassady
Oct 3 2011, 6:50 am
Oct 3 2011, 6:50 am
I upgraded to Drupal 7, and after upgrading all of the modules that were upgradable, I had SQL errors with my views. Given that a few of the modules my site uses are not available for Drupal 7 (several of them dev or beta) as well as the prospect of having to re-do all my views, I'm going back to Drupal 6.19. I didn't like the look and feel of Drupal 7, and it was extremely slow. To me, Drupal is going backwards. After reading the reviews of Drupal 7 and my experimentation, I will not try to migrate to version 7 until version 6 is no longer supported. And there's a good chance that I'll end up converting it to something else. The reputation of Drupal is that of a has-been. Only the Drupal fanatics will argue that point. Drupal has become a bloated mess. Drupal is most likely to be left in the dust by another up-and-coming CMS.
Niels
Sep 30 2011, 3:42 am
Sep 30 2011, 3:42 am
Please do not believe all te negative stuff in the other comments, i work for 3 years now with drupal and build many sites/portals i can say it is the BEST effer.
Kirk
Sep 24 2011, 8:27 am
Sep 24 2011, 8:27 am
To the person who mentioned Adaptivetheme:
http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme
Adaptivetheme is now a MOBILE theme based on responsive design. That's another plus for Drupal as mobile sites are a hot trend.
The Web has gone mobile crazy. Drupal is well-equipped for mobility thanks to its many mobile themes.
http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme
Adaptivetheme is now a MOBILE theme based on responsive design. That's another plus for Drupal as mobile sites are a hot trend.
The Web has gone mobile crazy. Drupal is well-equipped for mobility thanks to its many mobile themes.
Gert
Aug 25 2011, 5:09 pm
Aug 25 2011, 5:09 pm
Very disapointing...
I wanted to build a social website for our community using Drupal. Forget it.
Elgg is 1000 time more powerful, and free of course.
I wanted to build a social website for our community using Drupal. Forget it.
Elgg is 1000 time more powerful, and free of course.
Stu Ducklow
Aug 24 2011, 2:00 pm
Aug 24 2011, 2:00 pm
I spent six months trying to learn Drupal with the help of three books and tutorials from Linda.com
I can't honestly understand why anyone would use it. It's slow, extremely difficult to learn and demands such a high level of PHP expertise that you might as well code your own CMS.
I can't honestly understand why anyone would use it. It's slow, extremely difficult to learn and demands such a high level of PHP expertise that you might as well code your own CMS.