Drupal

I've been having a lot of problems lately with WordPress sites getting hacked. So far no one has hacked any of my Drupal sites.

Drupal is a free open-source content management system (CMS) that is powered by PHP and MySQL. After much experimentation I believe that Drupal is the best open-source content management system available. WordPress is the only other open-source content management system that I use.

Here are 10 examples of top-notch, high profile Drupal Web sites. This post is intended to give a quick example of what is possible with Drupal.

This is a quick hack to Drupal 5 to add rel=nofollow to the comment authors' homepages. I'm not recommending adding nofollow to comments, only describing the technique for people who are looking for it.

I've been getting a lot of spam lately from people trying to register or leave comments on Drupal sites with the keywords "WOW Gold" (World of Warcraft) and Runescape Money.

If your server has SSH access you can upload Drupal and all of your modules and themes in their compressed state and then uncompress them on the server. The methods below will greatly speed up the process of installing Drupal, especially if you have a slow Internet connection.

I've tried running Drupal sites on many cheap hosting companies, including ones in the following list.

Idealware.org has a good comparison of Drupal, Plone, and Joomla, from the perspective of non-profit organizations:

Drupal's popularity keeps growing. I just noticed that Aaron Wall's SEObook.com has recently been migrated to Drupal.

Forbes has a new sites called Office Pranks which uses Drupal.