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7 Little Drupal 7 Modules Every Site Builder Should Be Using Michael Anello - @ultimike - DrupalEasy DrupalCamp Atlanta October 19, 2013 #DCATL
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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.
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7 Little Drupal 7 Modules Every Site Builder Should Be Using
Michael Anello - @ultimike - DrupalEasy
DrupalCamp AtlantaOctober 19, 2013
#DCATL
7,467
100
100?
Commerce Kickstart
151
Panopoly
93
Drupal Commons
137
Drupal 8
29
Sites DrupalEasy has launched recently
122, 152
1.34%
99%
1%
98.66%
7,367
How do we do that?
• Meetups
• Drupal Planet
• IRC
• DrupalCamps
• Drupal Cons
• groups.drupal.org
• drupal.org forums, issue queues, etc...
I’ll get you started with 7 modules you likely
haven’t heard of.
(you’re welcome)
None are in the top100.
None are in the top200.
Let’s go!
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
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
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• “grant access for specific user roles to view unpublished nodes of a specific type”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
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
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
Footable
• https://drupal.org/project/footable
• Usage rank: 2454
• “provides integration for the jQuery FooTableplugin for creating responsive tables”
• Exposed: View format plugin
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
Demo!
Some final numbers...
drupal.org/project/usagedisplays usage of all
Drupal modules
13,240
Only the top 2,273 have more than 500 reported
installs.
Know of some other “hidden” modules? (usage rank greater than 1,000)
#hiddenmodules
Thank you!
Michael Anello@ultimike
http://drupaleasy.com/
