The CMS that runs governments, universities and large editorial newsrooms. Powerful content modeling, granular permissions, and multi-author workflows that WordPress simply can't match, at the cost of a steeper learning curve.
Where Drupal earns its keep. WCAG AA+ accessibility, audit trails and granular role permissions are in core, not bolted on with plugins. Public-sector sites run on it for that reason.
University portals live on structured content: course catalogs, faculty directories, department sites under one install with per-department editing rights. Drupal handles that hierarchy without custom hacks.
Editorial newsrooms with dozens of authors, real moderation workflows and deep taxonomies. Drupal's revision control beats WordPress once you pass a handful of writers.
Enterprise marketing sites with 5+ languages and translation governance. Multilingual is core in Drupal, so a 12-language site isn't 12 plugin licenses.
Most Drupal sites do not get hacked because Drupal core is weak. They get hacked because a contributed module went two years without a security update, or someone left user/1 on a guessable password, or the site skipped a SA-CORE advisory. A Drupal security audit finds those gaps before someone else does. We run the […]
Search “Drupal module development” and you get tutorials. The drupal.org docs, a Zend guide, a few YouTube courses, all teaching you to write a module yourself. Useful if you have a developer with a free month. Not useful if you have a business that needs a feature shipped and tested. This page is the other […]
Drupal support is one of those things nobody thinks about until a security advisory drops on a Wednesday afternoon and the site needs patching before someone exploits it. We run monthly Drupal support and maintenance for organizations that can’t afford to wing it: government sites, universities, nonprofits, and companies on Drupal 9, 10, or 11 […]
Drupal 7 reached end of life in January 2025. If you are still on it, you are running an unsupported CMS with no security coverage, and every month you wait makes the move harder. We migrate Drupal 7 sites to Drupal 10 and 11 as fixed-scope projects, and we start with the part most guides […]
The most popular plugins we work with daily. We can install, configure, or customize any of them.
Drupal vs Joomla in 2026, decided by an agency that builds both: when each wins, the Joomla 3 end-of-life trap, real costs, and which to pick for your project.
A practical guide to headless (decoupled) Drupal in 2026: JSON:API vs GraphQL, the Next.js stack, the real costs, and when a traditional build is smarter.
The Drupal modules we install on almost every build in 2026, the few that are overrated, and which ones are finally Drupal 11 ready.
Short answer: no, but the question is fair, and most of the people answering it have a reason to lie to you. The Drupal agencies say it is thriving. The folks who got burned by a complex build say it is finished. We sit in an odd spot. We build on WordPress, OpenCart, Magento, and […]
Module ecosystem at drupal.org/project/project_module, ~50,000 contrib modules, vetted via Drupal’s Security Advisory program. Custom modules are namespaced Symfony-style PHP under modules/custom/, with services declared via YAML, hook implementations, and event subscribers.
Drupal 10/11 ships modern Symfony 6.4+ components, Twig templates, a JSON:API and GraphQL endpoints (via contrib), plus Decoupled Drupal patterns for headless architectures. Composer-managed dependencies; Configuration Management API for environment-portable site config.
WordPress for: blogs, marketing sites, small ecommerce (WooCommerce), agencies with non-technical editorial teams. Drupal for: complex content modeling with 5+ custom content types, multi-author workflows with role-based permissions, government/university sites with strict accessibility and security requirements, multilingual sites with 5+ languages and translation workflow, headless architectures where the CMS is a content backend for a separate frontend. The break-even is roughly: simple content + simple permissions → WordPress; complex content + complex permissions → Drupal.
Drupal is most commonly used for: government websites (70%+ of US Federal sites run Drupal), university and education portals, large editorial newsrooms (Economist, NBA.com historically, BBC), enterprise marketing sites with multi-region multilingual content, healthcare and finance sites with strict access-control requirements, and headless CMS backends where Drupal serves content via API to a Next.js or Nuxt frontend.
Yes, Drupal is GPL-2, fully free to download, install and modify. You only pay for hosting (typically $30-300/month depending on traffic and content size) and any commercial themes or modules you choose (most contrib modules on drupal.org are free). No platform fees, no licensing costs.
Drupal 11 (released 2024) is the current major version, it’s where new development is happening, and it’s what we ship new builds on. Drupal 10 is still supported and will receive security updates until 2026; if you have an existing D10 site, no rush to migrate, but plan the D11 upgrade in your 2026 maintenance budget. We don’t recommend starting new projects on Drupal 10 unless you have a specific module that hasn’t been ported yet.
Yes. Custom Drupal modules are one of our specialties, particularly for clients who need integrations the contrib ecosystem doesn’t cover: legacy ERP/CRM sync, custom workflow rules, specialized content access logic, integrations with niche third-party APIs. We follow Drupal coding standards, use Composer for dependencies, and ship modules with PHPUnit and Behat tests.
Yes, Drupal 7 → 10/11 is one of our most-requested migrations in 2026, since Drupal 7 reached end-of-life in January 2025. We use the Migrate API to port content, configuration, users and files, rebuild the theme on the modern Twig+Symfony stack, audit legacy contrib modules for D10/11 equivalents, and ship a URL-preserving launch with 301 redirects for any URL changes.
A small Drupal site with custom theme, 5-10 content types and basic editorial workflow: $12K-$30K. A mid-sized editorial Drupal newsroom with multi-author workflow, multi-language content and faceted search: $40K-$100K. A government or enterprise build with strict accessibility, multi-region content, JSON:API frontend integration: $80K-$300K+. Drupal’s minimum project size is meaningfully higher than WordPress’s, but at the right scale, the platform pays back in editorial productivity.
Drupal Commerce is a respectable ecommerce module, particularly for content-led ecommerce where editorial and product pages need to share a content model (publishers selling subscriptions, museums selling tickets, universities selling course access). For pure-commerce, we usually recommend Magento, Shopify or WooCommerce instead, their ecommerce ecosystems are deeper than Drupal’s.
Yes, Drupal runs sites with millions of monthly visitors comfortably (NBC, Tesla, Twitter’s investor relations site, many of the .gov sites you visit). Beyond ~5M monthly visits you need proper infrastructure: Memcached or Redis caching, Varnish reverse proxy, a CDN, and database read replicas. We’ve shipped Drupal sites at 20M+ monthly pageviews.
Yes, better than WordPress in our experience. The Drupal Security Team handles coordinated vulnerability disclosure with weekly Security Advisories. Critical patches ship within 24 hours. The bigger risk on Drupal sites is the same as on any CMS: outdated modules, weak admin passwords, shared hosting without isolation. Our maintenance retainer includes weekly security patching, module audits, and 2FA enforcement.
Drupal is what you reach for when WordPress runs out of headroom. Complex content modeling, granular role-based permissions, mature multilingual workflows, and a security track record that’s measurably better than other PHP CMSes, that’s why governments, universities and large editorial newsrooms keep choosing it after 24 years of continuous development.
We pitch Drupal for: government and public-sector sites where accessibility (WCAG AA+) and audit trails are mandatory; university portals with course catalogs, faculty directories and granular role permissions; large editorial newsrooms with multi-author workflows and complex content taxonomies; enterprise marketing sites with 5+ languages and translation governance; and headless CMS projects where Drupal serves content via JSON:API or GraphQL to a separate Next.js, Nuxt or Astro frontend.
We don’t pitch Drupal for: small business marketing sites under 50 pages (WordPress is faster to launch and cheaper to maintain); pure-commerce stores (Magento, Shopify or WooCommerce ecosystems are deeper); blog-heavy content sites with simple permissions (WordPress’s editorial UX is genuinely better for non-technical authors); or projects with sub-$15K budgets (Drupal’s minimum project size to do well is around $20K).
Custom Drupal 10/11 builds with bespoke Twig themes, custom modules with PHPUnit and Behat coverage, Drupal 7 → 10/11 migrations using the Migrate API, headless Drupal architectures (JSON:API + Next.js / Astro frontends), accessibility audits to WCAG AA+, multilingual setups via Drupal core’s translation API, performance audits and infrastructure tuning for high-traffic sites, and flat-fee maintenance retainers with weekly security patching.
Drupal projects work best when both sides know what they’re getting into. If you’re choosing between WordPress and Drupal, that’s a 30-minute discovery call, free of charge, with the engineer who’d lead the project. We’ve recommended WordPress over Drupal more times than we can count, and we’ll tell you honestly which one fits.
Ready to scope a project? See our Drupal development services for builds, Drupal 7 migrations, security and accessibility work, with fixed scope and real pricing.
Selling on Drupal? Our guide to Drupal Commerce covers when it’s the right store engine and when it isn’t.
Thinking about selling online with Drupal? Read our practical guide to Drupal Commerce, including when it beats WooCommerce or Magento and what a build really costs.
Already running Drupal? See our monthly Drupal support and maintenance plans with fixed, published pricing.
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