Chapter 4 in dgd7 is all about modules.

The chapter authors start with some general notes about modules

• people are making “top N drupal modules” list all the time (first one is their example, 2 & 3 are mine)
  • http://nodeone.se/blogg/modules-for-sustainable-website-building-about
  • http://www.threestyles.com/drupal/15-outstanding-drupal-modules-you-should-be…
  • http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/drupal-modules-site-builds/
• modules slow the site down so be sparing
• Modules have a shortname or machine name that you can use to locate them on the website or to execute a download with drush
  • drupal.org / project / project_shortname
  • drush dl project_shortname
• put them in /sites/all/modules
  • use a contrib folder for contributed modules (I’m ignoring this b/c it isn’t where the installers put them)
  • use a custom folder for modules you make (I will do this)
• when deciding on a module pick one that is a full project, active and common for your version of Drupal
• search on the internet, not just drupal.org
• ask for help, i.e. http://groups.drupal.org/contributed-module-ideas
• or help patch: http://drupal.org/patch

They then follow it with a mega list of modules which is why I am publishing this day in two parts. This post is just the list. I’m going to use this page of links to go exploring.

I’ve created a gist that has a number of the modules I’m interested in listed, ready to drush. Perhaps not the best place in the long run to keep that, but it will do for now

https://gist.github.com/1344036

 

The Whole List.

Primal

• http://drupal.org/project/views
• http://drupal.org/project/ctools
• http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
• http://drupal.org/project/token

 

Additional Field Types

• http://drupal.org/project/references
• http://drupal.org/project/relation
• http://drupal.org/project/blockreference
• http://drupal.org/project/viewreference
• http://drupal.org/project/field_group
• http://drupal.org/project/link
• http://drupal.org/project/media

WYSIWYG

• http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg
• http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_linebreaks
• http://drupal.org/project/bueditor
• http://drupal.org/project/markdown

Webform Creation

• http://drupal.org/project/webform

Spam

• http://drupal.org/project/antispam
• http://drupal.org/project/mollom
• http://drupal.org/project/captcha
• http://drupal.org/project/recaptcha
• http://drupal.org/project/hashcash

Admin Interface

• http://drupal.org/project/workbench (makes content control/submission better) (content_access?)
• http://drupal.org/project/environment_indicator (are you in live or dev site?)
• http://drupal.org/project/smartcrop (picture editing)
• http://drupal.org/project/content_type_overview (edit many content types at once)
• http://drupal.org/project/masquerade (fast user switching for dev tests)

Content Display

• http://drupal.org/project/panels (page layout)
• http://drupal.org/project/codefilter (allows code snippits)
• http://drupal.org/project/colorbox

Menus and Navigation

• http://drupal.org/project/menu_block
• http://drupal.org/project/menu_position

Community Building and Social Networking

• http://drupal.org/project/comment_notify
• http://drupal.org/project/og (organic groups)
• http://drupal.org/project/userpoints (crash game?)
• http://drupal.org/project/profile2 (advanced user profiles)
• http://drupal.org/project/role_limits

Voting and Rating

• http://drupal.org/project/rate
• http://drupal.org/project/votingapi
• http://drupal.org/project/fivestar
• http://drupal.org/project/is_useful ?

Paths, Search and 404 Errors

• http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr (more in chapter 31)
• http://drupal.org/project/search404  (turns 404 into a search page)
• http://drupal.org/project/navigation404 (if don’t set a 404 page, this makes sure menus don’t disappear)
• http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

Misc

• http://drupal.org/project/bot (IRC bot, chapter 9)
• http://drupal.org/project/openlayers (maps, see previous post for others)

NodeOne article (Not already listed above & interesting to me)

• http://drupal.org/project/flag
• http://drupal.org/project/rules
• http://drupal.org/project/scheduler
• http://drupal.org/project/auto_nodetitle (don’t really understand this one yet)
• http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue (this one either)
• http://drupal.org/project/content_access
• http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
• http://drupal.org/project/features
• http://drupal.org/project/admin

3 styles article (Not already listed above & interesting to me)

• http://drupal.org/project/ubercart
• http://drupal.org/project/signup (not ready for 7)
• http://drupal.org/project/location (almost ready for 7)
• http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides (rewrites strings – universal find and replace?)
• http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics
• http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap (still in beta for 7)
• http://drupal.org/project/metatag (was nodewords)
• http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus

6 revisions article (Not already listed above & interesting to me)

• http://drupal.org/project/email
• http://drupal.org/project/cck_phone
• http://drupal.org/project/multiblock (not for 7?)
• http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/trigger
• http://drupal.org/project/pathologic
• http://drupal.org/project/emfield (not for 7?)

More as they Arrive

• http://drupal.org/project/purl
• http://drupal.org/project/context
• http://drupal.org/project/strongarm
• http://drupal.org/project/jqueryui
• http://drupal.org/project/spaces
• http://drupal.org/project/uuid  (universallly unique ID for all objects)
• http://drupal.org/project/uuid_features
• http://drupal.org/project/diff