Features of Drupal

Basic Features and Extension Features of Drupal

Dupal is a full-fledged open-source CMS that has various functions such as content management, membership management, keyword search, and RSS distribution. With the advanced multilingualization function equipped as a standard feature, Drupal is an extremely suitable CMS for portal site construction.

Extensibility of Drupal

Installation of extension modules that are being developed all over the world enables to add necessary functions. Over 30,000 Drupal modules are available on the Drupal official website for free.

Extension Modules Available	Over 30,000 modules
Design Themes Available	Over 2,000 themes
Registered Developers	Approximately 40,000 companies
Community Users	Over 1,000,000 users
Sites Drupal is Adopted	Over 1,000,000 sites
Available Languages	110 languages
Organizations	Drupal Association 2828 SW Corbett Avenue, Suite #203 Portland, Oregon 97201, USA

Security of Drupal

The Drupal Security Team works to ensure website security. The team has a background in passing the security audits upon introduction by major corporations in Japan.

Defense against Popular Attacks

The Drupal core modules are proof against well-known site attacks such as SQL Injection/ Cross-Site Scripting/ Cross-Site Request Forgery.

Drupal’s Own Security Team

The Drupal community has its own security team that immediately processes and resolves reported security issues.

Functions to Improve Security

Drupal is equipped with functions such as SSL/ User Management/ Access Privilege Management/ Access Rule Setting as standard features in order to improve website security.

SEO of Drupal

Websites built with Drupal are easily accessible from search engines, which is very beneficial to SEO. Various Drupal’s great features for SEO are available when constructing a site.

Features of Drupal	Effects of SEO
Optimization of URL	A URL can be customized in the way that makes sense on search engines such as “www.example.com/customising-drupal”.
META Tag Management	A title, description, keywords about the content can be set up and managed. Automatic META tag generation is also available.
OGP Tag Management	OGP tags can be set up for each Facebook and Twitter content.
XML Sitemap Generation	An XML sitemap of the content can be generated automatically and sent to major search engines such as Google.
Access Analysis	Install the Google Analytics and analyze the contents page by page.
Display Breadcrumb Trail	Automatically generate a breadcrumb trail to indicate the current location within the content.
Check Expired Links	Detect expired links in the content automatically.
Set up Redirection	Redirection can be set up from the old URL to the new URL on the management screen.

Solutions

Drupal provides over 600 packages of modules that are best-suitable for the industry in a form of distribution. Site construction, using a distribution that matches the site’s requirement, largely reduces individual installation of modules and customization.