seven little modules every site builder should be using

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• “grant access for specific user roles to view unpublished nodes of a specific type”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/