Drupal Reviews & Insights

Score6.7 out of 10

379 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Drupal are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Extensibility and Customization: Users highly appreciate the extensibility and customization options provided by Drupal's wide range of contributed modules. Many reviewers have stated that this flexibility allows them to tailor the software to their specific needs, enhancing the overall value of the platform.

Cost-effectiveness: The open-source nature of Drupal is seen as a major advantage by users, with many stating that it eliminates ongoing licensing costs. Reviewers mention that this cost-effectiveness makes Drupal an attractive option for those on a tight budget.

Strong Community Support: Users highly value the fantastic open-source community surrounding Drupal. Several reviewers have mentioned that they appreciate the community's readiness to help and provide solutions to any problems encountered. This support system is seen as invaluable, ensuring users have necessary assistance and resources to overcome challenges while using the software.

Drupal Reviews

6 Reviews

Information Technology

DSMM Guru

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The program that I manage within the school of medicine uses Drupal to maintain our individual website. I manage and maintain all edits, updates, and links on our web page. We use our webpage to provide knowledge to potential students who are interested in participating in our 9-month training program.

Pros

Easy access and more often than not, our student's are able to navigate through our webpage and find exactly what information they need.
Drupal Customer Service agents are extremely helpful, polite and knowledgeable.

Cons

Direct communication on edits/updates to software to the customer (myself, etc.) rather than our IT department that doesn't always relay information.

Likelihood to Recommend

Elizabeth Foust

Program Coordinator in Research & Development at Duke University (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Drupal - the things that it does well

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 20, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our entire business is not centered around Drupal support; DOOR3 has made a considerable commitment to Drupal development but we use other platforms as specific to the needs of our clients' business needs.

Functionality that Drupal excels with:

Analytics
Localization / translation
Commerce
Publishing
Customized Workflows
Social network integration
Content feeds

Pros

Workflow: Drupal's permission system is very effective. That, in conjunction with Workbench moderation and organic groups can handle most workflow needs; from the most basic to the very complicated. There is also a distribution available that helps with this (Open Atrium).
Analytics: Drupal's robust, field-able taxonomy terms can readily implement any number of tags to help your business understand what your viewers are doing and how to help them do it better.

Cons

Developer workflow: Pushing configurations to environments, better diff tools.

Likelihood to Recommend

How many stakeholders are in the Business Analysis process?
How long do you need the website to run (is it a short term marketing site or a true web presence)?
What does your internal development like like (if they even have one)?
Who is the web host?

Antonio Estevez

Senior Drupal Architect in Engineering at DOOR3 (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

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How Drupal will make YOU and your users happy.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 17, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Drupal CMS for almost all our websites including a big portal that consists of 5 different sites from variety of areas. The site is used by our organization and our members (around 5 000 people) across the US. We are covering all aspects of bankruptcy related things and providing accurate information to our clients through journal articles, law reviews, conferences, materials, recordings and etc.

Pros

Drupal is a stable, well built Content Management System that allows users to enjoy the website. It's regularly maintained and updated. That's what makes it a reliable tool for creating websites.
Drupal works with thousands of themes that could be customized according to your requirements. Also, layout of pages could be changed without any problems.
Drupal handles users' roles and permission assignment without any problems and allows administrators configure them at any point. Creating, changing and deleting users' accounts is a pleasant and easy to handle process.

Cons

The only thing I would recommend is more control on custom modules. The problem with those is bugs that are not addressed sometimes.

Likelihood to Recommend

Drupal is a perfect system for a big sites that work with a massive amount of data and requires many different things combined together and in one place. Also, Drupal is perfect for handling many users with different roles and permissions. Also, the work with content is a nice, pleasant and smooth process that is easy to maintain.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Non-Profit Organization Management company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Drupal Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

February 28, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Drupal is used to create Web sites for clients. We have a group of developers who specialize in Drupal. Drupal meets the need to get a site up and running quickly.

Pros

Drupal is easy to extend with additional functionality.
Drupal has add-on modules available for most tasks.
Drupal is easy to customize.

Cons

New versions of Drupal are not backwards compatible with older versions.
Uses AJAX rather than COMET, so response can be slow.
Some customization requires writing PHP functions.

Likelihood to Recommend

Drupal is well suited to any multiple user, data driven application. It could be overkill for single user applications or static sites.

Darren Oh

Drupal Engineer in Engineering at Double Prime, Inc. (Internet, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Drupal for the win

Rating: 8 out of 10

February 18, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Drupal for making websites for my customers. Via this way they're able to manage their website themselves.

Pros

Very flexible and easy way of managing content on a website for a webmaster.
For PHP developers, there are a lot of modules in the community which solve a general problem or connect to third party systems.
Good management of users and roles in the backend.

Cons

For developers: it is not written in MVC which should make it even more logical. Version 8 will be in MVC.

Likelihood to Recommend

To make a web shop or specific web application, don't use Drupal. But if you want to make a great website with lots of content, user interactivity and flexibility for the webmaster: use Drupal.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

2 years of experience

Why use Drupal

Rating: 10 out of 10

October 1, 2013

Pros

iPhorex, a forex trading platform built using Drupal, we consumed Drupal as Platform, layered with web-services which were consumed by iOS application.

Cons

Deploying the solution in third party server, it's not possible to protect the code like java and other enterprise level application deployment scenarios.

Likelihood to Recommend

- Provides great functionality out of the box.
- Huge list of modules 23,000 odd reusable code samples available.
- Standards based.

Rachit Gupta

Engineering Manager / Drupal Architect in Engineering at Blisstering Solutions (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience