Why I Like Drupal

In my humble opinion, CMS Drupal has come the most close to the concept of "ideal CMS". A lot of functions in Drupal are done to make life easier for developers. In this article I want to tell the main points that make me being fond of Drupal. The material is intended for users unfamiliar with Drupal. Sometimes may say very simple things, but precisely because of these simple little things a very favorable impression of Drupal will be formed eventually.

I should warn you at once that Drupal is not a complete solution. After installation, you will not get configured and running a social network, online store, etc. Drupal works with the principle of "providing opportunities of necessity". That is why Drupal does not do the satellites and bad for users sites on a commercial scale, and perhaps that is why the number of working sites on Drupal concedes such CMS as Joomla, Wordpress, that remain favorite ones for satellites and bad for users sites builders.

Drupal provides convenient tools for the development of the site, which is needed for you. Drupal creators understand that every site is unique and providing of a ready solution would be wrong, but instead they provide the tools for development. All Drupal modules are impregnated with this idea. No restrictions and a plenty of settings allow to develop a site for a specific task quickly and easily.

Drupal is a modular structure of core modules and developers' third-party modules. A simple conclusion of all this is: you can turn off the options you don't need, and they will never be used and referenced. Including the core functions. For example you are developing a site for business and you do not want your content to be commented. In Drupal you just unplug the standard comments module and any reference to comments and disappears from admin of the site. Compare it with other CMS, in which unnecessary (in the context of this example) comments will remain standing in the admin, and you will have to cut out all references to comments from the public section of the site.

In terms of creating categories, tags, etc. Drupal does not lag behind its principles to give you tools that are necessary to create your own solutions instead of providing ready solutions. In Drupal separation of materials by different categories is called with a terrible word taxonomy which, in fact, means nothing complicated. Conventional CMS allows you to create one set of categories, tags. For example in a set of categories you can create additional categories and subcategories including a special category that allows you to add a lot of arbitrary tags. Drupal, as usual, stands over these decisions, providing tools for creating an unlimited number of sets of categories and their components with unlimited nesting (in Drupal concepts these are a Glossary and a Term). Each set of categories can be selected as tags. Of course, each category can be assigned to any (several or even all, Drupal gives no limit to the developer) type of materials.