Drupal vs BuddyPress: What are the differences?
Drupal: Free, Open, Modular CMS written in PHP. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world; BuddyPress: Fun & flexible software for online communities, teams, and groups. It is a software that helps you build any kind of community website using WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.
Drupal and BuddyPress can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Drupal are:
- Categorize with taxonomy, automatically create friendly path urls, create custom lists, associate content with other content on your site, and create smart defaults for content creators
- Manage content with an easy-to-use web interface. Drupal's flexibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control.
- Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions allowing users view and create only what the administrator permits.
On the other hand, BuddyPress provides the following key features:
- Users can create and update profiles, including the use of profile photos
- Users can befriend one another
- Users can send private messages