All you ever wanted to know about Drupal but were afraid to ask!

What is Drupal?

Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 721,200+ users and developers. Use it to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine. Drupal is free, flexible, robust and constantly being improved by hundreds of thousands of passionate people from all over the world. Join us!

History of Drupal

Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. A large community now helps develop Drupal, and Drupal's popularity is growing rapidly.

Did you know?

Drupal is an English rendering of the Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop” (as in “a water droplet”).

Drupal stats

1,400

Themes on Drupal.org

14,462

Modules available

761,244

people in...

228

...countries speaking

181

languages.

Drupalcon

40 Drupal developers DrupalCon Antwerp 2005 * 3000 Drupal developers DrupalCon Chicago 2011

Awards

A little safety warning

Don't hack core!