My Top 10 (contributed) Drupal Modules
I use Drupal on a regular basis, both at work, with and for my clients and of course; on many of my personal projects.
Over the last few months I've been finding myself install the same core set of contributed Drupal modules over and over again. Here's a run down, in no particular order of my top 10 contributed Drupal modules.
- Views - Provides super flexible control over the display of your nodes without the need for programming.
- CCK - Content Creation Kit - Allows creation of custom node and field types.
- Imagefield - Provides and "Image field" for use with CCK.
- Event - Provides an "Event" node type and Event API. Personally I choose to customise my templates to markup event data using Microformats as vEvent/hCalendar. Would be nice to see this as part of the module.
- Webform - Provides site wide "web forms"
- Marksmarty - Provides a Markdown with Smarty Pants ASCII to HTML filter for your Input Formats.
- Pathauto - Automatically generates "URL Path aliases" for specific node types, taxonomy vocabularies and terms.
- Global Redirect - Prevents duplicate content for nodes with path aliases by redirecting.
- Simple News - Provides a simple newsletter user interface
- XML Sitemap (Previously GSitemap) - Provides a site wide site map in XML Sitemap format.
