{"id":2930,"date":"2021-09-01T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exafutures.com\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:24:30","slug":"wordpress-vs-drupal-open-source-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exafutures.com\/en\/wordpress-vs-drupal-open-source-comparison","title":{"rendered":"WordPress vs Drupal: Open Source in comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we continue our journey into the world of Content Management Systems (or CMS) with a comparison between two of the biggest open source CMS: WordPress and Drupal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are two excellent tools with many similarities: both are open source<\/strong>, available for free<\/strong> and with a large community that works constantly to improve them in order to make them always up-to-date, efficient and as secure as possible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created for different needs, the first as a tool for publishing blogs, the second as an instrument for creating communities, today they are two CMS well-known to the general public, although in different manners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to research performed by W3TECH<\/a><\/strong>, it seems that more than 40% of the websites on the internet were created in WordPress, while Drupal was chosen by a much smaller percentage (i.e., 1.4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Differences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WordPress has focused on the simplicity of its use <\/strong>and its management capabilities; although not all management<\/strong> and maintenance<\/strong> activities are simple, many of the operations provided by this CMS have been developed in such a way as to be easily manageable even by a person with little technical experience, especially if we talk about websites with basic functionality, such as a blog<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side, Drupal’s approach is different, as it has a more sophisticated structure that requires higher technical skills, both for management and maintenance activities. This higher complexity in carrying out the setting activities in the backend reflects a CMS that, compared to other competitors, has made flexibility one of its strong points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drupal is mainly used for corporate and public institutions sites (where it may be necessary to handle a large number of documents).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the tools available to the WordPress community are more extensive (with more plugins and templates made available both for free and for a fee) the basic version of Drupal seems to be more adaptable to the needs of a more elaborate site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this makes Drupal more versatile and preferable for creating and managing sites with private areas where users can receive personalized communications and documentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, it is clear that Drupal, at the cost of higher difficulty in the set-up process, has a greater capacity though in terms of managing the roles of users and visitors, which can be advantageous when dealing with projects that require a high number of profiles to manage (whether these are collaborators or customers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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