Drupal vs. WordPress: what to choose?

Most modern websites use content management systems (CMS). The most popular of them are WordPress and Drupal.

These engines offer many settings and additional features that allow you to change the structure of the site without writing special code. Which system to choose to create a new site?

WordPress positions itself as a universal platform for launching fast and simple sites (informational, commercial, with some diligence — even corporate), and Drupal announces the rapid development of corporate fintech solutions.

The target audience of WordPress is a mass user who needs to make a site quickly and easily. But Drupal is a corporate sector that wants to accelerate the development of complex projects. Drupal is also liked by small teams of developers who accept orders to create diverse sites (this engine will "unify" the development). That's why Drupal calls itself an "enterprise open source content management system." And in fact — it is an advanced platform for developing sites and web-services.

These CMSs are freely distributed and open source, which can be edited if you have the necessary skills.

What common parameters are present in WordPress and Drupal?

• These engines are built on PHP.
• All of them allow you to use MySQL as a built-in database management system. In addition to MySQL, Drupal can work with other databases.
• Technical support is available for each of the engines — official communities, blogs and developer forums on this engine.
• These CMS use templates to display sites, as well as modules or plug-ins to increase functionality.

Each engine has many additional tools to add unique features to the site.

Although there are many similarities between these CMSs, they differ in some respects.

Let's talk about system security. WordPress regularly closes the "holes" in security, but it still remains a real anti-leader, as it accounts for the most hacked sites. This is partly due to its prevalence, partly - with problems in architecture.

Drupal does not have such problems — it is a corporate solution with good built-in protection.

Having paid applications for WordPress is the norm. Average prices are $ 20-90. Some developers even use a subscription model (with write-offs on a regular basis). The Drupal catalog contains a huge number of add-ons, and they are all free. Paid modules can be found only at individual developers on third-party sites. The main income — for donations and the provision of services for the completion / maintenance of sites.

Drupal sites have improved performance — pages load faster and show less response time than resources developed on WordPress.

If we are talking about a small online project, which will present several hundred products, the choice is obvious — WordPress. However, our team is taking full advantage of Drupal. We develop sites of any complexity: from landings to giant sites, portals, news sites and, of course, online stores with many additional features.

If you have large-scale plans, if you need a growth engine, and you are ready to keep the staff of developers, you understand the scope of individual development and implementation, so you are ready to use framework or CMF, then you will definitely like Drupal. Here you can find ready-made solutions for most complex tasks, the launch of the project will be significantly accelerated, and you will get a ready-made backend and the ability to refine at any stage of growth. Drupal is well scalable and suitable even for heavy-duty online stores.

Drupal is a special engine that cannot be compared to mass CMS. It is rather CMF (symbiosis of framework and content management system). It can be used in small teams as well as in powerful organizations. This is primarily a tool for developers, which is suitable for launching projects with non-standard functionality. It positions itself as an affordable corporate tool.

Our team of professionals has been using Drupal for many years. This work has culminated in excellent results in the form of many developed and successful sites. If you decide to break into the Internet business loudly and for a long time - we will help you with this! There are no problems that we cannot solve.