seven little modules every site builder should be using
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
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7 Little Drupal 7 Modules Every Site Builder Should Be Using
Michael Anello - @ultimike - DrupalEasy
DrupalCamp AtlantaOctober 19, 2013
#DCATL
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100?
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Commerce Kickstart
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Panopoly
93
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Drupal Commons
137
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Drupal 8
29
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Sites DrupalEasy has launched recently
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98.66%
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How do we do that?
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• Meetups
• Drupal Planet
• IRC
• DrupalCamps
• Drupal Cons
• groups.drupal.org
• drupal.org forums, issue queues, etc...
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I’ll get you started with 7 modules you likely
haven’t heard of.
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(you’re welcome)
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None are in the top100.
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None are in the top200.
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Let’s go!
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Security Review
• https://drupal.org/project/security_review
• Usage rank: 204
• “automates testing for many of the easy-to-make mistakes”
• Exposed: Reports | Security Review
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Maxlength
• https://drupal.org/project/maxlength
• Usage rank: 295
• “set maximum length of any field on any form”
• Exposed: content type “edit” pages (for titles) and text field configuration
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View_unpublished• https://drupal.org/project/
view_unpublished
• Usage rank: 322
• “grant access for specific user roles to view unpublished nodes of a specific type”
• Commonly used with Override Node Options module
• Exposed: People | Permissions
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Autocomplete Deluxe
• https://drupal.org/project/autocomplete_deluxe
• Usage rank: 591
• “an enhanced autocomplete element, that uses the JQuery UI autocomplete”
• Exposed: term reference field widget
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Masked Input
• https://drupal.org/project/masked_input
• Usage rank: 1784
• “change [a text box’s] behavior so that it accepts input only according to specified format”
• Exposed: text field widget
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Footable
• https://drupal.org/project/footable
• Usage rank: 2454
• “provides integration for the jQuery FooTableplugin for creating responsive tables”
• Exposed: View format plugin
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Termcase
• https://drupal.org/project/termcase
• Usage rank: 2737
• “gives site administrators the option to specify case-formatting on the terms within a vocabulary”
• Exposed: vocabulary configuration pages
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Demo!
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Some final numbers...
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drupal.org/project/usagedisplays usage of all
Drupal modules
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13,240
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Only the top 2,273 have more than 500 reported
installs.
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Know of some other “hidden” modules? (usage rank greater than 1,000)
#hiddenmodules
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Thank you!
Michael Anello@ultimike
http://drupaleasy.com/