Drupal is a content management system (CMS), which is enabled as open source software for free. It was originally developed in 1999 by Dries Buytaert as a forum and transformed into an open source project within a year due to its great interest. Similar well-known providers are WordPress, Joomla, and TYPO3.
Using these frameworks, you can develop virtually any Internet project without programming knowledge, be it a website, a forum, a wiki, a blog or an online store. The official English website of Drupal can be found at Drupal.org .
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Drupal special features
Drupal works in a modular way. The CMS provides many enhancements, which can also be combined, and a large developer community continually provides new plug-ins, themes, and modules. In addition, the software is said to have great flexibility, since the content can be changed regardless of the design. At the same time as text, you can also use other media, such as images or videos in your project with Drupal. This software also supports multiple languages (including left to right).
Advantage
While TYPO3 and Joomla are used primarily as a Web CMS and WordPress primarily as blogging software, Drupal tries to connect simple web content management and a social community linking solution. For this, special tools are made available for the social community, such as a blog or forum system. In this way, it seems reasonable to use Drupal with a focus on social software and simple CMS capabilities.
Disadvantages
The extensions, also called modules, with which a project is made in Drupal, are not compatible with the different versions of Drupal. This means that a automatic core update is not workable because whatever extension is in use must first be checked in terms of availability and stability in the new version and then individually adapted. At the same time, all modules must be installed and activated manually before they can be used. This limits the use of Drupal for business-critical businesses.
