With over 7,000 Drupal 7 modules to choose from, there is no way that any single person can have even a passing knowledge of all the possibilities. Our community is extremely fortunate that we have awesome community events to share knowledge and to learn little tips and tricks that we can bring back to our day-to-day Drupal work. In this presentation I'll share 7 little modules that I've come to love over the past year. None of the modules are in the top 200 most used Drupal projects - in fact, 3 of the 7 modules aren't even in the top 1500. I'll demonstrate sample use cases for each module, and you'll leave this session with actionable knowledge that you can put to work immediately.

1. 7 Little Drupal 7 Modules Every
Site Builder Should Be Using
Michael Anello - @ultimike - DrupalEasy
DrupalCamp Atlanta
October 19, 2013
#DCATL

2. 7,467

4. 100

5. 100?

6. Commerce Kickstart
151

7. Panopoly
93

8. Drupal Commons
137

9. Drupal 8
29

10. Sites DrupalEasy has
launched recently
122, 152

11. 1.34%

12. 1%
99%

14. 98.66%

15. 7,367

16. How do we do that?

17. • Meetups
• Drupal Planet
• IRC
• DrupalCamps
• Drupal Cons
• groups.drupal.org
• drupal.org forums, issue queues, etc...

18. I’ll get you started with
7 modules you likely
haven’t heard of.

20. (you’re welcome)

21. None are in the top
100.

22. None are in the top
200.

23. Let’s go!

24. Security Review
•
https://drupal.org/
project/security_review
•
•
Usage rank: 204
•
Exposed: Reports |
Security Review
“automates testing for
many of the easy-tomake mistakes”

25. Maxlength
•
https://drupal.org/
project/maxlength
•
•
Usage rank: 295
•
Exposed: content type
“edit” pages (for titles)
and text field
configuration
“set maximum length of
any field on any form”

26. View_unpublished
•
https://drupal.org/project/
view_unpublished
•
•
Usage rank: 322
•
Commonly used with
Override Node Options
module
•
Exposed: People |
Permissions
“grant access for specific
user roles to view
unpublished nodes of a
specific type”

27. Autocomplete Deluxe
•
https://drupal.org/
project/
autocomplete_deluxe
•
•
Usage rank: 591
•
Exposed: term reference
field widget
“an enhanced
autocomplete element,
that uses the JQuery UI
autocomplete”

28. Masked Input
•
https://drupal.org/
project/masked_input
•
•
Usage rank: 1784
•
Exposed: text field
widget
“change [a text box’s]
behavior so that it
accepts input only
according to specified
format”

29. Footable
•
https://drupal.org/
project/footable
•
•
Usage rank: 2454
•
Exposed:View format
plugin
“provides integration for
the jQuery
FooTableplugin for
creating responsive
tables”

30. Termcase
•
https://drupal.org/
project/termcase
•
•
Usage rank: 2737
•
Exposed: vocabulary
configuration pages
“gives site
administrators the
option to specify caseformatting on the terms
within a vocabulary”

31. Demo!

32. Some final numbers...

33. drupal.org/project/usage
displays usage of all
Drupal modules

34. 13,240

36. Only the top 2,273 have
more than 500 reported
installs.

37. Know of some other
“hidden” modules?
(usage rank greater than 1,000)
#hiddenmodules

38. Thank you!
Michael Anello
@ultimike
http://drupaleasy.com/