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Both WordPress and Drupal, with Canvas, let you build pages from blocks and components instead of using just a text area. But the way they go about it is very different.

The two editors look similar, but they work in opposite ways. The easiest way to see the difference is to build the same thing in both. In the video, we build a hero component twice: first as a custom Gutenberg block, then as a Drupal Single Directory Component (SDC).

First we look at the main difference between the two editors. Then we build the hero as a Gutenberg block. Then we build the same hero as a Drupal SDC.

14 Jun 2026 8:37pm GMT

Against Inevitability

John Locke Fri, 06/12/2026 - 08:00

Sustainable/Open Business

12 Jun 2026 3:00pm GMT

Drupal and EmDash point to different assumptions about how publishing systems should be built and operated. The comparison places Drupal's established governance, workflow, and extension model against EmDash's beta-preview, Astro-based approach to serverless publishing and programmatic content operations. The issue is less about which CMS has more features and more about which operating model fits an organisation's infrastructure, editorial control, development workflow, and tolerance for newer technology.

12 Jun 2026 8:07am GMT