Advantages of Drupal

 Drupal is not just a CMS. It's CMF (Content Management Framework). CMS is a derivative of CMF, a particular use case implemented by default to help beginners (Article and Simple Page content types, used on most pages).

Over the years, Drupal has become one of the most powerful open source CMS’s and the standard choice for thousands of large web projects. It offers up-to-date digital solutions and is backed by active community members and teams of seasoned developers all over the globe. Such popularity is justified by its flexibility, scalability, and high security. The latest version of Drupal is proof of how far it has come. Drupal 8 & 9 comes with more than 200 new enhancements and great features to meet your business goals.

Advantages of Drupal

There are many reasons why Drupal is the top three most used CMS, and why many small to big complex systems have made it their options. Here are those.

Community

Drupal is an open source CMS. Aside from being a licensing option, open source is really a culture and an approach to technology that revolves around the free exchange of ideas and innovation. The open source community offers extensive public documentation, well-developed discussion boards, chat and mailing lists, alongside an air of approachable online culture.

For every new Drupal release, individuals and organizations around the globe contribute their time and resources to reviewing code, creating documentation, testing and incorporating feedback directly from the users themselves to deliver the best experience possible. 

Flexibility

It’s not a chance that Drupal is considered the most flexible CMS. We have always thought that if you have an idea about any functions, contents, you can certainly create it with Drupal. Seriously. You can create any content on site. You can customize anything to fit your taste. You can create any website type that you want.

Scalability

By scalability, we mean that you can extend your Drupal core to a higher level with a variety of contributed Drupal modules. What’s great with the Drupal modules is that they integrate perfectly well with Drupal core. They also connect absolutely efficiently with the modules. This is regardless of the fact many modules are totally different. It is due to the natural structure & built in system of Drupal. This thereby enhances the power of extending your Drupal website. It is also a core strength of Drupal compared with other CMS. Meanwhile, Drupal is an open source. So suppose the modules you want don’t exist, you can create one, edit an existing module.

Security

The Drupal Security Team is made up of security experts from around the world who are dedicated to analyzing and identifying potential risks in both Drupal core and contributed Drupal modules. Every new contributed model must undergo stringent review by a team of Drupal core maintainers before it is released publicly. Despite the common misconception that open source software is more vulnerable than proprietary models, Drupal’s large, dedicated open source community gives it an advantage by empowering millions of developers to detect issues in the code and submit bug reports.

Mobile capabilities

Recent trends show that the browsing experience through some sort of mobile device is increasing exponentially. Drupal 8 puts mobile users at its core and is built for mobile-first and PC second. It includes a new, fully mobile administrative toolbar with responsive themes. This is extremely helpful for editors to quickly create and edit content, easily make any other changes to it from any mobile device, and build APIs that can be used for mobile apps. You can apply all this by using a handy, purpose-built interface on a small screen. The result is responsive and suitable for any device design.

Multilingual features

The translation was never as easy as it is now. Businesses with a target global audience can benefit from Drupal multilingual capabilities. The translation systems of Drupal 8 have been completely rewritten and are fully integrated into the CMS making it possible to install it in one of 100 languages right out of the box. The latest version is configured with a powerful translation module with content translation, interface translation, and configuration translation to provide an excellent experience across multiple devices. You can easily translate any component of the software (taxonomy, comments, image styles, and more) and even get software translation updates from the community. It saves a large amount of time and money.

Configuration Management

In Drupal 8, it has a new user “Export Configuration” function that helps you export either the full site configuration or a single configuration file. The whole configuration is presented in the form of text files in the YAML format. There is no longer a need to use additional modules (e.g. the Features module) to deploy a configuration from one environment to another.

Web Services

Drupal 8 makes things easier than ever for mobile app developers. Businesses can build high-quality mobile apps by using Drupal 8 as the data source. Furthermore, backend developers are able to leverage Hypertext Application Language (HAL), provide your content in the format of JSON or XML, display views-generated lists as services, and much more.

Fast Theming

Designing beautiful websites with beautiful themes is becoming much easier. Drupal 8 has one more powerful tool called Twig, a template engine that replaces Drupal’s default PHPTemplate engine. Being a part of the Symfony2 framework, Twig provides a greater separation between logic and display (PHP code is no longer embedded in templates). It is fast, flexible, and secure.