Few Advanced Features of Drupal 7

When it comes to content management system (CMS), Drupal is the name that comes into mind as it’s an open source platform contrived on PHP/MySQL and web developers love the platform because of its inherent qualities like granular control, modularity and simplicity. The usability and popularity can easily be determined from the fact that over 7.2 million websites have already used the Drupal CMS. Different types of websites like entertainment, charity, media, corporate, social networking, forums blogs etc. have adopted this open source platform. Now Drupal has come up with its latest version - Drupal 7. There are various alluring features of this latest inclusion and Drupal 7 developers will love them for sure. Some of the interesting facts about Drupal 7 are discussed in the article :


• The Drupal 7 modules include an admin menu strip so the developers don't need to download it separately. It has become more usable now as you will not find any ambiguity or obscure settings. Things are more organized in the latest Drupal 7 version.

• The new CMS proffers a new user interface which is more user friendly, making it more enticing for the users.

• There is a new "shortcut bar" introduced in the Drpal 7 where users can add their shortcuts. Further, various shortcut bars can also be added according to the users preferences.

• Drupal web design has always been an interesting for developers, now after the introduction of Drupal 7 it will be more fun to use. The latest edition will allow you to edit the existing pages from the administrative panel and its seamless capability will make it even more popular.

• WYSIWYG editors are the latest inclusion in the version. It comes with in a much improved form.

• More Meta data capabilities are also an alluring feature on the Drupal 7.

• Drupal CMS is known for its array of themes and the now the recent version also sports three new themes, namely: Bartik, Seven and Stark. Further, you can install these themes directly from the Appearance admin screen.


A new data base layer has been added in the Drupal 7 where developers will be getting new queries like SELECT, MERGE, UPDATE, INSERT & DELETE. This has added more integrity and scalability to the system and other advanced queries can be automatically complied from the appropriate database server.