Our Favorite Drupal Modules August 12, 2008
A few weeks ago we unveiled our favorite WordPress plugins. Drupal is another popular CMS platform we utilize here at Bivings. Here's a list of favorite modules we've compiled for it as well. And as always, feel free to signup and contribute to our wiki.
Content Construction Kit
- Embedded Audio Field – Defines a field type for displaying third party music, podcasts, and other audio, such as podOmatic and Odeo.
- Embedded Image Field – Defines a field type for displaying images from third party providers, such as Flickr.
- Embedded Media Field – Provides an engine for modules to integrate various 3rd party content providers, such as Video Neighborhood, Image Neighborhood, and Audio Neighborhood.
- Embedded Media Import – Imports media from certain third providers, such as Flickr.
- Embedded Media Thumbnail – Allows custom thumbnails for Embedded Media Fields.
- Embedded Video Field – Defines a field type for displaying third party videos, such as YouTube and Google Video.
Javascript
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Active Search – Adds AJAX to standard Drupal search.
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Activeedit – Provides AJAX-based in place editing.
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Activemenu – Adds AJAX-based tree menu to navigation menu.
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AJAX submit – Makes designated forms submit via AJAX.
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Collapsiblock – Makes blocks collapsible.
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JS Calendar – Enables popup calendars for selecting dates using the jscalendar library.
- Tabs – A helper module for creating tabbed pages.
The Bivings Group
- TBG_NODETEASER – Allows users to write custom teasers for content.
- PMM Main – Stands for Plugable Mass Mailer. Enables users to create an e-mail and pass it along to a mass mailing application.
Other
- Event – Calendaring API, calendar display and export.
- Image – Allows uploading, resizing and viewing of images.
- Image Attach – Allows easy attaching of image nodes to other content types.
- Image Gallery – Allows sorting and displaying of image galleries based on categories.
- Image Import – Allows batches of images to be imported from a directory on the server.
- Organic Groups – Enables users to create and manage their own 'groups.'
- OG calendar – Displays calendars for groups.
- IMCE – An image/file uploader and browser supporting personal directories and user quota.
- Lists – Allows mailing lists subscriptions.
- Private – Allows users to mark content as private, and hide that content from visitors.
- TinyMCE – The most popular WYSIWYG editor for advanced content editing.
- Webform – Enables the creation of forms and questionnaires.
- JQuery Update – Updates Drupal to use the latest version of JQuery.
- Meta tags – Allows users to add meta tags, eg. keywords or description.
- Administrative Menu – Adds an alternative menuing system that makes it easier to access Wordpress admin tools.