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My list of essential Drupal modules

Posted on January 7, 2009January 7, 2009 by eisabai

After setting up and configuring Drupal for a few websites, I have managed to compile a list of common/essential modules that I install for most websites. And here they are – my list of essential Drupal modules:

Core – optional

Contact – Enables the use of both personal and site-wide contact forms.

PHP filter – Allows embedded PHP code/snippets to be evaluated.

Search – Enables site-wide keyword searching.

Poll – Allows your site to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions.

Taxonomy – Enables the categorization of content.

Image

Image – Allows uploading, resizing and viewing of images.

Image assist – This module allows users to upload and insert inline images into posts. It automatically generates an Add image link under the textarea fields of your choice.

Image Gallery – Allows sorting and displaying of image galleries based on categories.

Others

SEO

Meta tags – Allows users to add meta tags, eg keywords or description.

Pathauto – Provides a mechanism for modules to automatically generate aliases for the content they manage.

Token – Provides a shared API for replacement of textual placeholders with actual data.

Menu

Nice Menus – CSS/jQuery drop-down, drop-right and drop-left menus to be placed in blocks

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

FCKeditor – Enables the usage of FCKeditor (WYSIWYG) instead of plain text fields.

Spam Control

CAPTCHAM – Base CAPTCHA module for adding challenges to arbitrary forms.

reCAPTCHA – Uses the reCAPTCHA web service to improve the CAPTCHA system.

Email a friend

Forward – Forward this page module

[tags]drupal, modules, cms, content management system, web development[/tags]

4 thoughts on “My list of essential Drupal modules”

  1. Eric says:
    February 25, 2009 at 8:53 am

    Thanks for this post, I found a few new modules I was not aware of yet!

  2. leyl says:
    September 24, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    Use all good Lida

  3. Ayesh says:
    June 5, 2010 at 10:18 pm

    Nice!
    Simplenews , Views, CCK , Addresses and DHTML menus seems to be missing :)

  4. eisabai says:
    June 6, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    Thanks Ayesh. I found out about CCK and Views after writing this post and yes they are great. Haven’t heard of DHTML Menus though. I use Nice Menu and it is pretty good.

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