When it comes to open-source content management systems, they just don’t get any better than Drupal.\u00a0 This award-winning CMS has been responsible for creating a number of sites including those powered by The Discovery Channel, The New York Observer and Yahoo.\u00a0 If you’re considering open-source solutions, this article will give you seven reasons why Drupal makes the best choice.<\/p>\n
1. Search Engine Friendly<\/strong> – Drupal offers enhanced control over URL structure, making this CMS search engine friendly right out of the box.\u00a0 Each piece of content can become customized with clean URLs that better your chances of ranking well in the search engines.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 Custom Content <\/strong>– The CCK (Content Construction Kit) in Drupal allows you to easily create various types of content.\u00a0 Common examples include news stories, blog posts and tutorials.\u00a0 With the Views Modules feature, you can display these content types in numerous ways.\u00a0 While the average CMS requires complex coding to enable these tasks, Drupal makes it all simple as no programming experience is required.<\/p>\n 3. Revision Control<\/strong> – Drupal allows you to save new versions of your web pages every time they are edited.\u00a0 This gives you the ability to revert back to your old versions at any time.<\/p>\n 4. Advanced Categorization<\/strong> – Drupal’s taxonomy system lets you organize and tag content with ease.\u00a0 Known as vocabularies, each set of categories can be organized as certain types of content.\u00a0 For instance, you could have blog content that permits free tagging while other sections can be limited to different list of categories.\u00a0 When combined with the CCK and View Modules feature, this functionality makes it easy to target keywords you want to implement into your site.<\/p>\n 5. User Management <\/strong>– The Drupal CMS was designed to support community-based sites, proven by the enhanced user and access control functionality it offers. \u00a0There are no limits to the user roles and access levels you can create and customize.\u00a0 The best thing about Drupal is that it lets you keep advanced management features disabled and then enable them when your site grows and requires more community features.<\/p>\n 6. PHP-based<\/strong> – By default, Drupal uses a PHP template theme engine, allowing you to instantly enhance the presentation of your site.\u00a0 Applying themes in Drupal is easier than the WordPress environment and as long as the they are completely scripted, you don’t have to know anything about PHP to install them.<\/p>\n 7. Excellent Community Support<\/strong> – Of all open-source content management systems, Drupal has one of the largest and most active communities.\u00a0 You will understand how well supported the CMS is when taking a look at the long scroll of modules that have been contributed to the project.\u00a0 There are many ways to get support including Drupal forums along with a number of video tutorials, podcasts and online documentation.\u00a0 Drupal’s popularity gives you the assurance that this CMS will be around for a long time.<\/p>\n Joomla is highly functional yet lacks out of the box search engine friendliness.\u00a0 WordPress is easy to use but can’t handle larger websites.\u00a0 Where these systems and other platforms fail, Drupal picks up the slack with instant functionality able to satisfy a wide range of needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to open-source content management systems, they just don’t get any better than Drupal.\u00a0 This award-winning CMS has been responsible for creating a number of sites including those…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[399,7382,54,50,58,68,117,400,401],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","tag-cck","tag-cms","tag-drupal","tag-joomla","tag-open-source","tag-php","tag-seo","tag-taxonomy","tag-template-theme"],"views":175,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}