Backdrop CMS Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Cold-Blooded Software

  Https://backdropcms.org/ ? D7 fork. If you want to stay there. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Alternatives to Laravel?

  Https://backdropcms.org was a fork of Drupal before the rewrite. It was pretty decent when I tried it (admittedly several years ago). Source: about 1 year ago

• The Magic of Small Databases

  I see you decided on Wordpress, if you were going to use a CMS I think Drupal 7 would have been a good choice. Drupal has concept of entities and views. An entity as the name suggests is essentially a table and you can add all sorts of different fields to it. From simple text and number fields to images and fields that lookup other entities thus creating relationships between entities. Views is another construct... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Doing some research on technologies: Why are a large portion of Drupal downloads still the Drupal 7 version?

  I think some smaller biz and nonprofits jumped off to https://backdropcms.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• Doing some research on technologies: Why are a large portion of Drupal downloads still the Drupal 7 version?

  Some might switch to Backdrop which is a project forked from D7. Some sites will probably just continue to run (technically unsupported) until someone shuts the server down. Source: over 1 year ago

• Leadership?

  As a result DO community is not able to delete stuff. For example, they should delete all Drupal 7 stuff on the official website and give the lead to https://backdropcms.org/ regarding support. They should also auto archive issue that are more than a years old without activity. Source: about 2 years ago

• why not continue develop D7 ...

  Look into https://backdropcms.org. It's an amazing fork of Drupal 7, but with a lot of D8 niceties including configuration management. Source: over 2 years ago

• Any other CMS that you find interesting to try after Drupal? (excluding wordpress) 😁

  Backdrop CMS is a fork of Drupal 7, but with lots of the improvements of Drupal 9. Https://backdropcms.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Does it make sense to learn Drupal 7 now?

  Another important alternative is Backdrop CMS. It's essentially an updated fork of Drupal 7, so migrating is really the easiest choice. Remember, even with D8 and D9, more than 50% of Drupal sites are still on D7. https://backdropcms.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• none of the end-users likes composer, where drupal9 to go...

  You sound like a good candidate for https://backdropcms.org, which is an awesome free open source fork of Drupal 7, that has a lot of Drupal 8 features such as config management, etc. It does not have Symfony or Composer dependencies. Source: almost 3 years ago

• where are those drupal7 users will go ?

  Backdrop CMS was specifically created for Drupal 7 refugees (It's a fork of Drupal 7). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Possible to back to Drupal7 ?

  The people who agree with you have been working on backdropcms for some time. Source: over 3 years ago