droopler
Droopler - SEO Friendly CMS & Site Builder
Droopler is a Drupal-based website builder that helps you create beautiful, fast, and easy-to-manage websites. It comes pre-configured with a Bootstrap 5 theme and SEO features (like metatags and friendly URLs). Whether you need a corporate site or a microsite, Droopler gives you a head start by providing ready-made layouts (Paragraphs), and demo content you can easily modify or remove.
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For Content Editors (Marketing, HR, Editorial Teams, etc.)
Droopler is designed to be simple and intuitive for anyone who wants to add or edit content:
- Easy Page Building – Use Paragraphs to create banners, feature lists, text-and-image blocks, and more with just a few clicks.
- SEO-Friendly – Configure metatags, Open Graph tags, and alt tags for images to boost your online visibility.
- Pre-Loaded Demo Content – Explore a sample site structure, then edit or delete what you don’t need.
Check Droopler Demo (frontend) or Ask for dedicated demo instance with access to CMS backend
For IT & Developers
Droopler is built on Drupal, offering a flexible and robust foundation:
- Composer-Based Installation – The easiest way to install Droopler is through its dedicated Composer template on GitHub.
- Customization – Adjust SCSS variables, tweak the theme, and make use of Bootstrap 5 or any third-party libraries you prefer.
- Paragraphs Setup – Manage and extend your content easily with customizable paragraph types.
- Ongoing Development – Watch the roadmap and repository for updates, security fixes, and new features.
Install it locally in a few minutes:
git clone https://git.drupalcode.org/project/droopler.git droopler
cd droopler
./launch-droopler-cms.sh
For Management & CFO
Droopler is a smart choice for businesses of all sizes:
- Cost-Effective – Droopler is free to download, and its ready-made components reduce development time and expenses.
- Scalable – Ideal for single sites or multiple microsites, letting you quickly clone and launch new branded websites.
- Quick Launch – Have a fully working website (or e-commerce store) in minutes, speeding up time to market.
- Trusted & Supported – Droopler is sponsored by Droptica, a professional Drupal agency in Poland, so expert help is always available.
Check Droopler Demo (frontend) or Ask for dedicated demo instance with access to CMS backend
Droopler is great for
- Business and Corporate websites - every company needs a website but not everyone has a huge budget. Drooplers is a great start to build beautiful and professional websites on budget.
- Website factories - when you have to build multiple microsites, also giving your editors power to edit content. You can easily adjust our theme to match your brand colours and launch multiple branded websites fast.
- Ecommerce - If you want to start a Drupal Commerce project, Droopler will let you do that much faster. With the ability to have a fully working website up and running in minutes (currently in 3.x version, for 5.x coming soon)
Information About Versions
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Droopler 5 – This version is a clean starting point for your Drupal project. It comes with a custom theme and helpful recipes but doesn’t include extra custom code. Once your site is built on Droopler 5+, you only need to update Drupal core and modules, without worrying about separate distribution updates or tricky dependency issues. Droopler 5.x removes the common distribution headaches, so you can focus on building great content and improve your website!
- Droopler 3 (Supported) – Supported with security fixes and maintenance updates.
- Droopler 4 (No Longer in Active Development) – Existing projects can still use it, but new features won’t be added.
Whats included:
SEO and speed
- Metatags - metatags configurable per page thanks to the metatag module. Title, description and keywords
- OpenGraph tags - to let you control display of shares in social media.
- Friendly URLs - user friendly URLs, thanks to the pathauto module
- XMLsitemap generator - thanks to xmlsitemap module
- ALT tags - for all images
- Green Google Page Speed - thanks to many performance improvements. Check it out
Custom Bootstrap 5 theme
SCSS included and all variables and settings can be easily adjusted to suit your needs. We really went head over heels to make this customizable.
Build on Paragraphs
We use the Paragraphs module to build out the pages. In the installation, you get one content type with various paragraphs (banner, feature list, text with an image on the site, headline text with background image and many more) all themed and working out of the box.
Multilanguage support
Two languages enabled by default for a demonstration with options to remove them/add more as with any multilingual Drupal site.
Pre-loaded content for demo purposes
Just a few nodes easy to delete, but show you what Droopler can do.
Video overview
Check out the Video presentation
Installation
To install Droopler locally you need DDEV installed on your machine.
git clone https://git.drupalcode.org/project/droopler.git droopler
cd droopler
./launch-droopler-cms.sh
Download Droopler .zip
Ready to unpack on any hosting server .zip file coming soon.
Demo
FAQ
How to update Droopler 5.0.0 to 5.0.5 (or any other update from 5.x.x to 5.y.y)?
Droopler 5 is a starter kit. This means the Droopler code is only used during the initial creation of a new website from scratch. During installation, the theme files and configuration (saved in Recipes) are copied into your project. After this, you work with the site as if it were a standard Drupal installation with a custom theme based on Radix and configuration you would set up manually.
There is no distribution update process as it existed in version 3.x.
You can attempt to manually copy the updated theme files from the Droopler 5.x branch repository and reapply the latest Recipes. However, we cannot guarantee that this process will work successfully.
Can I update Droopler 3.x to 5.x?
There is no direct upgrade path available. In the future, we may consider creating a dedicated MigrateAPI module to facilitate content migration to the new structure. However, the theme would still need to be created manually from scratch.
Links
- droptica.com/droopler – More info and examples
- Video Presentation – Quick overview
- Droopler Roadmap – Upcoming releases
- Issues & Help
Droopler is proudly sponsored by
Droptica.