Drupal

True confession time: several years ago I had a few WordPress sites. I didn't update them for months and they got hacked. Someone uploaded a PHP shell to the server and they also were able to redirect search engine traffic. To me, it looked like the site was normal. However, when a visitor came from a search engine, they were redirected to the attacker's site. They took advantage of yet another flaw in WordPress.

Now, some people affiliated with Acquia and other companies are keen on bringing that experience to Drupal.

One of the main complaints non-developers have about Drupal involves composer. In the Olden Tymes, you could just upload a module to your site and that was it. Nowadays you're supposed to use composer and not using it will cause problems.

Unfortunately, using composer means you have to learn how to open a command line program and type in arcane commands. As a result, many people reject Drupal in favor of Wordpress.

Thankfully, we've created a way around that!

I tried out the 1.0 version of Drupal CMS and it has some room for improvement as they say. For those who weren't aware, "Drupal CMS" is a Drupal distribution that comes with preinstalled modules, recipes for creating different types of sites, and other enhancements designed to make it more friendly for non-developers. Recipes are a yml file plus maybe code, and they're similar to what the Features module produced for D7 and before.

See the issue someone else filed here. If you use a bad date format, Drupal just keeps on requesting that non-existent date format from the database. If you use a bad format 10 times, that adds 10 queries to the page.

I reviewed their patch and it looks OK. But, I opined:

You know the old joke about a guy who goes to his doctor and says "it hurts when I do this" and the doctor responds "so, don't do that"?

Two examples of "so, don't do that" from Drupal are "Unable to add content to a content type named 'type'" (link) and "Do not require a 'title' field" (link).

I left comments at both links.