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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

• Active Search – Adds AJAX to standard Drupal search.

• Activeedit – Provides AJAX-based in place editing.

• Activemenu – Adds AJAX-based tree menu to navigation menu.

• AJAX submit – Makes designated forms submit via AJAX.

• Collapsiblock – Makes blocks collapsible.

• 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.