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Drupal is typically called a CMS (content management system) - somewhere you add and edit the content for your website.<\/p>\n\n
However, unlike some other CMSes, unless a Drupal website uses only the default page and article content type, no Drupal websites are the same. Each will have its specific content model with different content types and fields.<\/p>\n\n
Instead of being a content management system, Drupal can be described as a content management framework (CMF) - a framework for building a content management system specific to each application.<\/p>\n\n
But as well as a content management framework, Drupal could also be considered an application framework like Symfony or Laravel.<\/p>\n\n
As well as building the content model, you can extend Drupal's functionality with custom modules and add custom themes to make it visually different.<\/p>\n\n
But, there's a lot of functionality in Drupal core itself - such as user accounts, authentication, a query builder (Views), JSON:API endpoints, and a visual page editor (Layout Builder) - to name a few things!<\/p>\n\n
Drupal offers much more than just managing content.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n
Drupal is typically called a CMS (content management system) - somewhere you add and edit the content for your website.<\/p>\n\n
However, unlike some other CMSes, unless a Drupal website uses only the default page and article content type, no Drupal websites are the same. Each will have its specific content model with different content types and fields.<\/p>\n\n
Instead of being a content management system, Drupal can be described as a content management framework (CMF) - a framework for building a content management system specific to each application.<\/p>\n\n
But as well as a content management framework, Drupal could also be considered an application framework like Symfony or Laravel.<\/p>\n\n
As well as building the content model, you can extend Drupal's functionality with custom modules and add custom themes to make it visually different.<\/p>\n\n
But, there's a lot of functionality in Drupal core itself - such as user accounts, authentication, a query builder (Views), JSON:API endpoints, and a visual page editor (Layout Builder) - to name a few things!<\/p>\n\n
Drupal offers much more than just managing content.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-05-11T09:00:28+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "868ebc7b4844fbd04025c16a9cfb16e9", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }