Last Updated on October 18, 2023
Drupal is a free and open-source platform and content management system written in PHP for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes.
Equipped with a powerful blend of features and configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites.
The software is released under an open source license.
Features include:
- Polls – enables admins and/or users to create polls and show them on various pages.
- Templating – separates content from presentation allowing you to control the look and feel of your Drupal site.
- Threaded comments which provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling discussion on published content.
- Version control – tracks the details of content updates including who changed it, what was changed, the date and time of changes made to your content and more.
- Access statistics and logging.
- Advanced search functions.
- Caching and feature throttling for improved performance under load.
- Comments, forums, and polls
- Descriptive URLs – uses Apache’s mod_rewrite to enable custo.mizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly.
- Modules.
- Multi-level menu system.
- Multi-site support.
- Multi-user content creation and editing.
- OpenID support.
- RSS Feed and Feed Aggregator.
- Security/new release update notification.
- User authentication.
- User profiles.
- Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email).
- Workflow tools (Triggers and Actions).
- Online help.
- Personalization.
Website: www.drupal.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: Dries Buytaert
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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