45 Modules in 45 Minutes

45 in 45
a “walk through” popular Drupal modules

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Rod Martin
@imrodmartin

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rod@ostraining.com

45 in 45
Conﬁguration
NOT a scientifically researched list.
Based on teaching Drupal for the
past two years to beginners and
intermediate site builders.
I will PROBABLY miss some of
yours... tell me at the end.


45 in 45
Conﬁguration
Broken down into 2 categories:
Site Building
Site Management
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SB

Module Filter
Puts a nice “table of contents”
at the top of your modules page
and moves the save config button
to the top.
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Maintenance status: Actively maintained
Development status: Under active development
Module categories: Administration, Search, Theme Enhancements, Utility
Reported installs: 141,020 sites currently report using this module. View
usage statistics.
Downloads: 792,421

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Last modiﬁed: November 19, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/module_ﬁlter

SB

Advanced Help
The advanced help module allows
module developers to store their
help outside the module system,
in pure .html files. The files can
be easily translated simply by
copying them into the right
translations directory.
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»Maintenance status: Actively maintained
»Development status: Maintenance ﬁxes only
»Module categories: Administration, Utility
»Reported installs: 147,698 sites currently report using this module. View usage
statistics.
»Downloads: 829,700
»Last modiﬁed: October 19, 2012

https://drupal.org/project/advanced_help

SB

Chaos Tools
This suite is primarily a set of APIs
and tools to improve the developer
experience. It also contains a
module called the Page Manager
whose job is to manage pages.
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»Development status: Under active development
»Module categories: Administration, Developer, Drush, Views
statistics.
»Downloads: 3,701,163
»Automated tests: Enabled
»Last modiﬁed: August 13, 2012

https://drupal.org/project/ctools

SB

Admin Menu
Provides a theme-independent
administration interface (aka.
navigation, back-end). It's a helper for
novice users coming from other CMS, a
time-saver for site administrators, and
useful for developers and site builders.
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»Module categories: Administration, Developer, Site Navigation, Utility
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: February 26, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/admin_menu

SB

Webform

Webform is the module for making
surveys in Drupal. After a submission,
users may be sent an e-mail "receipt" as
well as sending a notification to
administrators. Results can be exported
into Excel or other spreadsheet
applications. Webform also provides
some basic statistical review and has and
extensive API for expanding its features.
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»Module categories: Evaluation/Rating, Statistics
»Reported installs: 334,002 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/webform

SB

Devel

A suite of modules containing fun
for module developers and
themers ...
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» Maintenance status: Actively maintained
»Module categories: Administration, Developer, Drush, Utility
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: April 30, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/devel

SB

Pathauto

The Pathauto module
automatically generates URL/path
aliases for various kinds of content
(nodes, taxonomy terms, users)
without requiring the user to
manually specify the path alias.
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statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: September 8, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/pathauto

SB

Token

Tokens are small bits of text that
can be placed into larger
documents via simple placeholders,
like %site-name or [user]. The Token
module provides a central API for
modules to use these tokens, and
expose their own token values.
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»Module categories: Rules, Utility
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: June 19, 2013

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https://drupal.org/project/token

SB

Five Star / Voting API
The Fivestar voting module adds
a clean, attractive voting widget
to any entity in Drupal 7.
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»Maintenance status: Seeking co-maintainer(s)
»Module categories: Content Construction Kit (CCK), Evaluation/Rating
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: May 29, 2012

https://drupal.org/project/ﬁvestar

SB

Date
This package contains both a
flexible date/time field type
Date field and a Date API that
other modules can use.
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statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: November 6, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/date

SB

Calendar

This module will display any
Views date field in calendar
formats, including CCK date
fields, node created or updated
dates, etc.
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»Module categories: Event, Views
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/calendar

SB

Flag
Flag is a flexible flagging system
that is completely customizable
by the administrator. Using this
module, the site administrator
can provide any number of flags
for nodes, comments, users, and
any other type of entity
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»Module categories: Content, Evaluation/Rating, Rules, Views
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/ﬂag

SB

Entity Reference

The Entity Reference Module is
used to relate entities (nodes,
terms, users, etc...) to one
another.
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statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/entityreference

SB

wysiwyg
Allows the use of client-side
editors to edit content. It
simplifies the installation and
integration of the editor of your
choice. This module replaces all
other editor integration modules.
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»Module categories: Administration, Content, Filters/Editors, JavaScript Utilities,
Media, Third-party Integration
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

SB

Media
The Media module provides an
extensible framework for
managing files and multimedia
assets, regardless of whether
they are hosted on your own site
or a 3rd party site.
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»Module categories: Content, Fields, File Management, Filters/Editors, Media,
Utility, Views
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/media

SB

Media YouTube
Media: Youtube integrates with
the Media module to make
Youtube videos available as file
entities.
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statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/media_youtube

SB

Field Group

Fieldgroup will, as the name implies,
group fields together. All fieldable entities
will have the possibility to add groups to
wrap their fields together. Fieldgroup
comes with default HTML wrappers like
vertical tabs, horizontal tabs, accordions,
fieldsets or div wrappers.
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»Module categories: Content, Content Construction Kit (CCK), Fields, Utility

https://drupal.org/project/ﬁeld_group

SB

Views

You need Views if
»You like the default front page view, but
you find you want to sort it differently.
»You like the default taxonomy/term view,
but you find you want to sort it
differently; for example, alphabetically.
»You use /tracker, but you want to restrict
it to posts of a certain type. (etc)
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statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/views

SB

Views Slideshow

Views Slideshow can be used to create a
slideshow of any content (not just
images) that can appear in a View.
Powered by jQuery, it is heavily
customizable: you may choose
slideshow settings for each View you
create.
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»Module categories: Content Display, Views
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow

SB

Rules

The Rules module allows site administrators to
define conditionally executed actions based on
occurring events (known as reactive or ECA
rules).
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https://drupal.org/project/rules

SB

Panels

The Panels module allows a site
administrator to create customized layouts
for multiple uses. At its core it is a drag
and drop content manager that lets you
visually design a layout and place content
within that layout.
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»Module categories: Content Display
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/panels

SB

Display Suite
Display Suite allows you to take full
control over how your content is
displayed using a drag and drop
interface. Arrange your nodes, views,
comments, user data etc. the way you
want without having to work your way
through dozens of template files.
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statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/ds

SB

Quick Tabs

The Quick Tabs module allows you
to create blocks of tabbed content,
specifically views, blocks, nodes and
other quicktabs.
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statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/quicktabs!
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SB

Pathologic

Pathologic is an input filter which can
correct paths in links and images in
your Drupal content in situations
which would otherwise cause them to
“break;” for example, if the URL of
the site changes, or the content was
moved to a different server.
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statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/pathologic

SB

Context

Context allows you to manage contextual
conditions and reactions for different
portions of your site. You can think of each
context as representing a "section" of your
site. For each context, you can choose the
conditions that trigger this context to be
active and choose different aspects of Drupal
that should react to this active context.
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statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: July 19, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/context

SB

Style Guide

Provides a visual testing page for
Drupal themes. Quickly compare the
display of common elements across
your themes, and verify that your
new theme addresses all common
style elements.
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statistics.
»Downloads: 19,015

https://drupal.org/project/styleguide

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Workbench

Workbench provides overall
improvements for managing content
that Drupal does not provide out of
the box.
• a unified and simplified user interface for users who ONLY have to
work with content. This decreases training and support time.
• the ability to control who has access to edit any content based on
an organization's structure not the web site structure
• a customizable editorial workflow that integrates with the access

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control feature described above or works independently on its own

»Module categories: Content
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/workbench

SM

Workbench Access

Workbench Access creates editorial
access controls based on
hierarchies. It is an extensible
system that supports structures
created by other Drupal modules.
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»Module categories: Administration, Content, Content Access Control, Taxonomy, User
Access & Authentication
statistics.
»Downloads: 73,867

https://drupal.org/project/workbench_access

SM

Workbench Moderation

Workbench Moderation adds
arbitrary moderation states to
Drupal core's "unpublished" and
"published" node states, and affects
the behavior of node revisions when
nodes are published.
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»Module categories: Administration, Content, Content Access Control
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: March 1, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/workbench_moderation

SM

Scheduler

This module allows nodes to be
published and unpublished on
specified dates.
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statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/scheduler

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Colorbox

Colorbox is a light-weight
customizable lightbox plugin for
jQuery. This module allows for
integration of Colorbox into Drupal.
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statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: December 9, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/colorbox

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Google Analytics

Adds the Google Analytics web
statistics tracking system to your
website.
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»Module categories: Statistics, Third-party Integration
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/google_analytics

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Metatag

The Metatag module allows you to
automatically provide structured
metadata, aka "meta tags", about
your website.
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»Module categories: SEO
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/metatag

SM

XMLSitemap

The XML sitemap module creates a
sitemap that conforms to the
sitemaps.org specification. This
helps search engines to more
intelligently crawl a website and
keep their results up to date.
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»Module categories: Drush, Search, Third-party Integration, Utility
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

SM

Text Captcha

This module provides a CAPTCHA
which uses logic questions instead
of standard visual or auditory
challenges. This can help to
improve the accessibility of
CAPTCHAs.
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»Module categories: Third-party Integration, User Management, Utility
»Reported installs: 647 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
»Downloads: 8,718

https://drupal.org/project/textcaptcha

SM

Feeds

Import or aggregate data as nodes, users,
taxonomy terms or simple database records.
Feeds is the successor module of FeedAPI and
Feed Element Mapper. It aims for easier
usage and better extensibility. Read more in
Good bye FeedAPI, hello Feeds.
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»Module categories: Import/Export
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: July 6, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/feeds

SM

Global Redirect

Once enabled, an alias provides a nice clean
URL for a path on a site. However Drupal
does not remove the old path (eg node/
1234). The problem is that you now have two
URLs representing the same content.
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»Module categories: Administration, Content, Path Management, Search, Site
Navigation, Utility
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

SM

Redirect

This module allows you to specify a redirect
from one path to another path or an external
URL, using any HTTP redirect status.
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»Module categories: Path Management
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: January 8, 2012

https://drupal.org/project/redirect

SM

Image Resize Filter

This filter makes it easy to resize images,
especially when combined with a WYSIWYG editor
such as tinyMCE or CKeditor. Users never have to
worry about scaling image sizes again, just insert
an image and set it's height and width properties in
HTML (this is done automatically by WYSIWYG
editors) and the image is resized on output to
match the HTML. 
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/image_resize_ﬁlter

SM

Backup and Migrate

Back up and restore your Drupal MySQL database
and files or migrate a site between environments.
Backup and Migrate supports gzip, bzip and zip
compression as well as automatic scheduled
backups. 
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

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Simple Google Maps

This module is about the simplest way to get a
Google Map, and/or a link to a Google Map,
displayed with your content. It provides a field
formatter for Drupal 7 text fields. With this
formatter, you can enter a single-line address that
Google Maps would recognize into a plain text
field. 
»Module categories: Fields, Location
statistics.
»Downloads: 70,567
»Last modiﬁed: April 12, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/simple_gmap

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Add to Any

Adds social sharing to your Drupal site. Your choice
of sharing buttons with the standard buttons
packaged in the module, including the open share
icon, or you can use buttons of your own like many
others do. 

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»Module categories: Commerce/Advertising, Community, E-commerce, Mail, SEO,
Statistics, Theme Enhancements, Third-party Integration, Utility, Views
statistics.

https://drupal.org/project/addtoany

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Diff

This module adds a tab for sufficiently
permissioned users. The tab shows all
revisions like standard Drupal but it also
allows pretty viewing of all added/
changed/deleted words between
revisions. 
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»Development status: Maintenance ﬁxes only
»Module categories: Administration, Content Display
statistics.
»Last modiﬁed: January 15, 2013

https://drupal.org/project/diff

What are yours?
• Feeds for migrations!
• Search and Replace (global S&R)!
• Font your face!
• Rabbit Hole / Internal nodes - prevents users from
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viewing content from a slideshow etc. - control visibility of
certain content types/nodes!
In-line Entity Form (allows referenced entity reference
fields to be entered on the fly)!
botcha - spam reducer (without a captcha)!
misery module - !
cck blocks - pull a field in a ct - out of the content display
and put it in a block etc.

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