Drupal is a content management framework written in PHP that can be used to organize & display content, customize appearance and manage routine tasks on a website.

It is an open-source software distributed under the GPL (“GNU General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.

Drupal was originally written by Dries Buytaert, who still heads the Drupal project. Buytaert transliterated the Dutch word ‘druppel,’ which means ‘droplet’ to create the name ‘Drupal,’ in order to make an indirect reference to the community aspects of the project through the Dutch word ‘dorp,’ meaning ‘village.’ He opened the source code for community work in 2001.

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