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Douglas
Douglas

Reputation: 1258

Crucial Drupal Modules for Dynamic Site Development

I have spent the last few days playing around with Drupal for the first time, and I really like it. Especially after building dynamic sites from scratch.

Being that there are thousands of modules, I would like to know what modules SO users cant live (or develop) without.

What modules do you always (or always with specific requirements) use?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 275

Answers (8)

eaguilar
eaguilar

Reputation: 87

I use also ThemeKey for change theme using taxonomy or regex.

Upvotes: 0

jsims281
jsims281

Reputation: 2206

Some I love but haven't seen mentioned yet:

Upvotes: 0

EricSchaefer
EricSchaefer

Reputation: 26350

Upvotes: 0

stephthegeek
stephthegeek

Reputation: 454

There are some great posts out there with lists of can't-live-without modules: http://delicious.com/search?p=top+drupal+modules&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1&sd=6M&ed=&atags=drupal&context=all||

Personally though:

  • Admin Menu
  • Views
  • CCK
  • Pathauto (and Token)
  • Adminrole
  • Redirect 403 to User Login
  • Global Redirect

Other modules I use a lot but not necessarily every single site, depending on the needs:

  • Imagefield
  • Imagecache
  • Quicktabs
  • Print
  • Flag
  • Webform

Upvotes: 3

ldweeks
ldweeks

Reputation: 175

I know that a million people are going to jump on this thread, but anyhoo...

Your best bet is to take a look at the usage statistics for each module. You talk with ten different people and you'll get ten different lists of "must have" modules, but these statistics demonstrate what people actually use. I would just start at the top and work your way down the list - even if you hit something that you don't need, it will be worth the time you take to understand what it does.

Oh, and Sam is very right: the best place to SEARCH for modules is drupalmodules.com.

Upvotes: 0

mingos
mingos

Reputation: 24502

As an extension to what Dave DeLong has suggested, I also highly recommend the following:

  • Advanced Forum - for decent looking forums, in case you want them
  • Wikitools + Freelinking - for wiki-like link behaviour
  • Google Analytics - for using this great Google service
  • Wysiwyg - easy post editing using a graphical WYSIWYG interface

Other tools are mostly specific to the functions you want to have on your site.

Upvotes: 0

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 1

What Dave DeLong said.

Also, some helpful mods:

  • Contemplate (Content Templates)
  • Devel (if you're going to develop your own Drupal theme)

http://drupalmodules.com/ is the best site for finding Drupal modules.

Upvotes: 0

Dave DeLong
Dave DeLong

Reputation: 243156

I install these regardless of the site, regardless of the requirements, and before I do anything else:

Upvotes: 2

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