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Which Drupal Modules Do You Use?

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Someone asked which 3rd Party Drupal Modules we use on our sites.

Not all of these are in use on every site but here is the list & what they do.

Adsense:
Incorporates Google adsense as a block or within nodes.

CommentMail:
Sends an email to selected users when a comment is added. The email contains links to easily moderate comments to posts.

DiggThis:
Adds a "digg" button to enabled node types for easy submission of pages to Digg.com by users.
Note: This only works in "full view" per the comments in the module code. It doesn't work on node teasers which are enabled by default in Drupal.

Event:
adds an events calendar for enabled node types.

Flexinode:

Allows for the creation of custom content types.
Note: This module does not play well with CCK which is similar in functionality.

Gsitemap:
automatically submits a sitemap to google when content is changed, added, or on cron run.

Nodewords:
Adds metatag control to nodes & pages including taxonomy pages.

Pathauto:
Automatically creates url aliases according to rules you define. Beware, it is very easy to accidently give a new path to your existing pages which have traffic or pagerank... resulting in a 404 error. Ask me how I know this. Not the module's fault, it works as advertised.

quicktags:
javascript widget to add simple & common html tags to content text areas. There are a few similar modules which offer extended funtionality (tinymce, htmlarea, & the aptly named FCKeditor... which I have never been able to get working). Quicktags is sufficient for simpler blog-type sites.

RobotsTXT:
adds an individual robots.txt for a single or multisite environment.

Sitemenu:
adds a "site map" link to the navigation menu or (optionally) a block with expanded categories to the sidebar. When enabled as a block it creates TWO titles... One for the menu name & one for the taxonomy (root category) name. One solution is to use css display:none to make this go away if you think it looks funny.

Technorati:

Enables Technorati tags for selected content types, and pings Technorati when new content is created.

Theme Editor:
I think I used this once. I tend to edit html & css for themes in Notepad.

Image & Image assist:
Allow easier management of images in posts.