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Drupal

Drupal (/ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide and 1.2% of the top 10 million websites—ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and…

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Developer
Drupal community
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
Operating system
Unix-like, Windows
Original author
Dries Buytaert
Platform
Web platform
Release
January 15, 2001; 25 years ago (2001-01-15)

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Drupal Core

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Community

Security

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Drupal

Nodes108
Edges107
Triples205
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018519
Components1

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Drupal

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related to Further reading · 58
Drupal → Abbott/Jones, APress, April, August, Beighley, Berkeley, Bhavin, Birmingham, Brian, Butcher, Canada, Commerce, CS1, David, Designing, Dummies, Emma Hogbin, England, For Dummies, Front End Drupal
related to Community · 23
Drupal → As, Asia, Attendance, August, Austin, Camp, Cause, Coders, Coding, Drupal Camps, DrupalCamp, DrupalCon, Europe, Florida DrupalCamp, GLADCamp, Greater Los Angeles Drupal, January, June, North America, Smaller
related to history · 13
Drupal → After, Antwerp, Between, Buytaert, Dries Buytaert, Drop, Dutch, English, Ghent University, Master's, PhD, The, University
related to Architecture · 9
Drupal → Abstraction, Controller, HTTP GET, It, PAC, POST, Presentation, Presentation Abstraction Control, The
related to Database abstraction · 9
Drupal → In, It, Microsoft, PHP, PHP Data Objects, Prior, SQL, SQL Server, SQLite
related to Drupal CMS · 9
Drupal → At DrupalCon Portland, Dries Buytaert, Drupal CMS, Drupal Community, In, It, Starshot, The, This
related to Themes · 9
Drupal → As, December, Many, PHP, PHPTemplate, Some, Themes, Twig, XTemplate
related to Localization · 8
Drupal → Arabic, As, English, GNU, Hebrew, Persian, September, Support
related to Drupal Core · 6
Drupal → As, Common Drupal-specific, In, Starting, Symfony, This
related to Modules · 6
Drupal → As, BPM, Contributed, December, Some, WYSIWYG

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
DrupalDeveloperDrupal community1.00infobox
DrupalLicenseGPL-2.0-or-later1.00infobox
DrupalOperating systemUnix-like, Windows1.00infobox
DrupalOriginal authorDries Buytaert1.00infobox
DrupalPlatformWeb platform1.00infobox
DrupalReleaseJanuary 15, 2001; 25 years ago (2001-01-15)1.00infobox
DrupalRepositoryDrupal Repository1.00infobox
DrupalSize100 MB1.00infobox
DrupalStable release11.4.1 / 3 July 2026; 52 days ago1.00infobox
DrupalTypeContent management framework Content management system Blog software Open source Knowledge management1.00infobox
DrupalWebsitedrupal.org1.00infobox
DrupalWritten inPHP, using Symfony1.00infobox
Drupalis aframework dedicated for building sites accessible to people with disabilities because many of the best practices have been incorporated into Drupal Core.Drupal 8 saw many improv…0.90text

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