How DRUPAL Does Custom Post Types Better Than WordPress 🤯

[@tobisalami]

Drupal has improved a tonnnnnnnnnnnnnn since the last time I touched it. Wow. I should take a look at it again! Thanks for the video.

[@CourtneyR_dev]

00:04 Drupal has its own version of custom post types and custom fields 02:10 Drupal allows creating custom content types with various fields and settings. 04:16 Drupal provides a better admin navigation and allows easy creation of custom fields for content types. 06:12 Drupal allows for defining various types of content with custom fields easily. 08:07 Drupal offers built-in custom post type and view functionality 10:05 Drupal's UI allows for easy customization of content display 11:55 Drupal allows for easy customization of post types and fields 14:06 Drupal offers robust custom post types and fields for content creation. Crafted by Merlin AI.

[@modemlooper]

This is exactly what I was thinking of when I commented on your post with Mark about it’s terrible UIUX in the block editor. Why can’t we have nice things things like this in WordPress core?

[@dima_storozhuk]

Lol. Because you need to cleanup a Wordpress core and philosophy first. Clean should be clean, no HTML/js/css soup. Open Source must be open source, not a mix of free sometimes useless functions and paid subscriptions from the plugins which always trying to build their own ecosystem inside the Wordpress and interfere/compete with other plugins.

[@SinanWP]

looks like drupal still heavy developer-oriented. that was their mistake and they still on it :) but their new dashboard looks sexy compare to old one holy looks so nice.

[@tsotnekalandadze4266]

They are releasing a separate version of Drupal which will be more designer/page builder oriented but in general yes, ease of use has never been the strongest part of Drupal

[@aaronlsilber]

You should look at the new "Experience Builder" initiative for Drupal. I'm not kidding when I say that it looks like Figma for a CMS.

[@BrianCoords]

This looks really nice IMO.

[@BrianCoords]

Then I got to the part where you're building a page with something looking like classic WordPress widgets. Yikes.

[@WPMinute]

we can't have everything in open source world can we?

[@Line49Design]

This is fantastic. What a smart meta way to look at WordPress from an objective, comparative viewpoint. And also a blast from the past for those that were there alongside you back then👍

[@WPMinute]

I do love me some Drupal!

[@maxziebell4013]

This is a great idea and format! I'm already a fan of this series-count me in. I haven't used it in ages either. It's very powerful, but certainly not as direct and simple to use as the Create Content Model. I believe much of this could be accomplished in the block editor, as seen in the prototype, and with loops in a pattern (which is also kind of a view). We are missing filters, categories, etc., and we could get close while keeping it simple.

[@WPMinute]

Thanks, Max! Looking forward to making more of these.

[@nickm1049]

If I came from different CMS, saw Drupal and WP for first time, looking at those build-in custom fields & design, it would be Drupal all the way. Luckily I have the money for Bricks + ACF Pro/JetEngine, but otherwise Drupal would be the logical choice. When trying to get something slightly more advanced done in WP, it often feels like you're jerry-rigging something together with multiple plugins 😅

[@GamerRadar]

i have a lifeline crocoblock, im going to be ditching Wordpress soon for Drupal.

[@dima_storozhuk]

You’re right. Very nice to see this opinion. I don’t understand why WP is so popular while it is non-free (i am talking about all this paid subscription in WP plugins). Probably people are so lazy trying to educate themselves, and usually just follow simpler way to buy a plugin. Which actually can work for small websites (it doesn’t mean that it will not cause the problems in future), but as today’s solution it can work.

[@nickm1049]

@@dima_storozhuk I think in past the initial growth to dominance came from the 5 min install, then the 1 click installs that hosts offered + the big plugin ecosystem. Back then as an affiliate marketer I could spin up blogs so fast compared to other CMS and I didn't care about design customization much....later years making sites for clients, I would like a better CMS 😃

[@derek-hanson]

I haven’t used Drupal in ages. The admin experience looks way more modern. I think WordPress could be shifting this direction a bit with the newer admin UI and data views. I think the post/page editing experience could benefit from this cleaner, one panel approach. What got me really intrigued is the table view builder. That would be amazing to create something like that out of posts. I know you could achieve the layout with core blocks, but it’s not the same as a table. That’s pretty cool. Next episode: Joomla 😅. Is that still a thing?

[@SigururHolmGunnarsson]

Very interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing more. I see no good reason why WordPress can’t offer basic custom fields and post types. Also, the UI is much better.

[@UpperValleyWeb]

I like this series idea. From working at multiple college/universities that use Drupal instead of WordPress I suspect this may be why they use it?!? I always found editing more annoying and limited as someone w limited access but if they want a user to have only limited "insert some text here" format, where custom post/page types are all identically formatted, maybe admins deciding to buy the tool find it clearer for their use case out of the box? (Of course that can be accomplished w WordPress).

[@WPMinute]

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!

[@KennyGriffin]

Jesus this admin UI makes WordPress look like garbage.

[@Drivingralle]

The nice menu of Drupal ist the same system as the "classic WP Admin". I even prefer the WP one, because of the dark color of the menu. Helps focusing on the bright main content. The block editor interface with to many sidebars and panels are hard to use. Never used Drupal: Can you save this content types to file to version it?

[@WPMinute]

Unsure if they have more advanced stuff you can do with it.

[@koffer]

you can export all the configuration to yaml files and import to another drupal installation, and you can find some modules to install a specific yaml configuration, and in this moment people are working with a module called Recipes to export and import more complex and specific functionalty liked to content types.

[@24AheadDotCom]

What koffer said, plus you can create content types in code. Drupal has the concept of "entities", which are a generalized object covering content types, users, taxonomy terms (categories), etc. Minor issue: I'd call the new type "Home", not "Homes" (unless it represents a set of homes).

[@TobiasKarnetzke]

I wish WordPress would get a minimal UI similar to this.

[@modemlooper]

Also, how you use body as a field WordPress should do the same thing, the classic editor could be a field, and the block editor could be a field that you could choose at will

[@opdavies]

If you want to talk more about Drupal, I'd be more than happy to join a call, video, stream, podcast, whatever. :)

[@rubengarciajr]

Is there a bricks / breakdance for durpal?

[@WPMinute]

It's been many years since I've followed Drupal super close, so I'm not really sure.

[@EvanPrenger]

unfortunately not. there have been some try to be this but never took off. Mercury editor is probably the closest there is now. as of now super heavy developer focused. early next year they are launching Drupal CMS which is supposed to be more for non developers but we will see how that actually goes

[@stefanocorradiniplus]

Let's please make other videos on this topic

[@PswACC]

Take a look at how Webflow does it. Nomenclature is a bit different. They call custom post types Collections.

[@GamerRadar]

I cannot wait until Drupal CMS!!!! Bye Bye Wordpress!

[@mightylotan]

Interested in trying Drupal again after... decades?? with the WP drama still going on

[@georgedramcheff2386]

Drupal always been awesome CMS. Unfortunately developer oriented mainly. No way to promote it to the end users, if I need Composer for any plugin installation. I hope the new Drupal Starshot will be really user oriented.

[@afonsoabreu1962]

This cms puts wordpress to shame. If there were more drupal developers in my area i would never touch wordpress. I am non dev. The ux ui is so much better and the ability to create custom post types etc....

[@WPMinute]

I wouldn't say Drupal puts WP to shame. It's def nice it has these cms features built-in, but the overall theming, plugin, and publishing experience is far better in WP IMO.

[@afonsoabreu1962]

There is no reason for wp does not have those features in 2024

[@svezhara]

@@afonsoabreu1962 Drupal was created as CMS from the very begining, WordPress was just a blog platform that scale to CMS in the time. In the old days we used Drupal and Joomla (known as Mambo) instead WordPress for making dynamic websites.

[@vaughanprint]

Kevin beat me to the views… a similar concept exists in Toolset but it’s magic area gives you a full editor for html markup, css, js and conditional logic. I notice that the fields are tied to the CPT while in other Wordpress equivalents custom fields can be broken down into groups and allied to more than one post type.

[@LorenzoGiovenali]

You've shown 0.1% of what's possible with Drupal 😅

[@WPMinute]

Correct! I was only focusing on the custom post type and custom fields portion that compares to WP.

[@Gearyco]

Kind of embarrassing for WP. Not a fan of the "views" concept, though.

[@MrPanzerDragoon]

The views section has always been a headache for me.

[@blairwadman8798]

Views is really handy for simple to moderate queries. When you get to advanced queries, sometimes it's still easier to do it in code. But you can also extend views in code when you need to.

[@24AheadDotCom]

Views is a query builder that also frees you from a lot of hassle relating to displaying things. You can have different displays in the same view, like one for admins and the other for visitors: admin users would see more info. You can add relationships to other items. For instance, in a list of nodes you can also display info on the author of the node. It can output in different formats: as an HTML page, as RSS, as JSON, etc. And, as blairwadman8798 says you can change the queries in code. In addition, you can write your own plugins for views, for instance some sort of custom proximity search could be added to the query via a plugin.

[@lebonron]

As our world Duce is saying whenever I hear the term "no code" slogan.... It's fake news!!!! When you choose a grid or a list or if it is homes or posts..... It's code!!! And someone wrote it!!! Anyways, I do like gutenberg but it need more work. This comment was written with no words!! By an AI agent...

[@WPMinute]

Sure, there is code, but the end user didn't have to *write* code to accomplish it.