Backdrop CMS Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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 / 2 months 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: Reddit / 3 months 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: Reddit / 3 months 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: Reddit / 7 months 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: Reddit / about 1 year 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: Reddit / about 1 year 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: Reddit / over 1 year 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: Reddit / over 1 year 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: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Possible to back to Drupal7 ?

  The people who agree with you have been working on backdropcms for some time. - Source: Reddit / about 2 years ago