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When comparing Django CMS vs Drupal, the Slant community recommends Drupal for most people. In the question“What are the best CMS for building a multilingual website?” Drupal is ranked 1st while Django CMS is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Drupal is:
Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Mature
Django CMS is a very mature project, with many core developers working on it constantly and adding new features and bug fixes.
Pro Can integrate with existing apps
Django CMS is more of a Django plugin which can easily be integrated with any Django app to add CMS functionality to it.
Pro Double click to edit
You can double click items to edit them or add pages directly on the website (as long as you're logged in as admin). It simplifies content creation and touch-ups.
Pro Easy to extend
Documents are organized in a tree. You can either create new content area type, new tree nodes, integrate complete existing Django app in the tree, etc. It's pretty easy usually.
Pro Internationalization (multi-language) support
Having a website in more than one language can be very challenging and DJango-CMS supports it well. Switching between languages while keeping on the page for example.
Pro Great for enterprise use
Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic.
Pro Free and open source
Drupal is free to use and open source.
Pro Active community
Drupal have one of biggest and more active communities across FOSS, maintaining a large and vibrant ecosystem of extensions and installation profiles.
Pro Great templating engine
Twig is a game changer!
Pro Multi-lingual support
Starting with Drupal 8, there's built-in multi-lingual support.
Pro It's easy to transfer config changes from dev to production
Pro Highly customizable
Drupal can be customized to do almost anything. It was built ground up with the intent of using a wide variety of small modules to get the exact result wanted instead of just the most common solutions.
Pro RESTful
Drupal 8 has REST services built in.
Pro Good accessibility
Pro Drupal has full SEO capabilities
(vs Joomla, which lacks SEO capabilities), there is an essential issue for promotion.
Pro Semantic HTML5
Pro Excellent SEO
Drupal was designed from the beginning to follow best practices in regards to SEO.
Pro Responsive front-end and back-end
Drupal 8 follows responsive design philosophy out of the box, both front-end and back-end.
Pro Drupal 8 and higher leverage composer and all of the wonderful PHP packages. Instead of building functionality from scratch, it utilizes existing libraries
Cons
Con May be an overkill for a simple blog
Django CMS project is a large and complex project, comparable to Wordpress. As such, it may be too much for a simple personal blog considering that it has many features that may never be used in that particular occasion.
Con Steep learning curve
Drupal is not easy to get into and out of the box doesn't offer much. To get Drupal doing what you want it to, modules are required. To get modules, an understanding of how Drupal works is required. And that takes time.
Con High resource consumption
A more complex Dupal installation can easily exhaust 256 MB of RAM with only one or two visitors.
Con Documentation is a joke
With currently 3 different version of drupal in active use, and at that constantly changing capibilities within 2 of those, it means that when you look for documentation is if often for a different version that you are running and in addition is not at all easy to consume. Often the info you need is in comment #100 of a thread.
Con Lacks good free modules and themes
Most good third-party modules and themes are costly.
