modules

core and contributed modules that extend the power of Drupal

Aggregator Module

About the Aggregator Module

Drupal's Aggregator module helps you get fresh content (RSS feeds) from other sites and places it, in summary form, on your site. It is pretty cool and powerful module if you want to get fresh automated content for your Drupal site.

With this module, you can:
* add, edit, and/or delete feeds (RSS content from another site)
* decide how often those feeds are updated
* group them into similar categories

Contact module

The contact module is one of the core modules that comes with Drupal. It is by default, disabled. It enables your site to have a contact form for users to use. This way, they can use a form to contact you and you do not have to have your email address on your website where it can be harvested.

The contact form can also be set up for multiple categories for users/visitors to choose (e.g. to Sales, Feedback, Complaints departments in your organization)

Core Modules

Core modules come with the install of Drupal. All of them are automatically installed but not all of them are enabled by default.

Modules extend the features and functionality of what you can do with Drupal.

Blog module

The 'blog module' is one of the core modules that comes with Drupal. It is by default, disabled. It gives users the ability to create blogs. Depending on the permissions given to user-role wrt (with respect to) the 'blog module', it can either mean that every user can create and have their own blogs, or only specific user-roles can.

Pathauto

'Pathauto' contributed module is another important module, especially for SEO purposes. It automatically generates readable, user-friendly URLs-aliases (instead of something like http://www.yourdomainname.com/node17998 you could have http://www.yourdomainname.com/drupal-notes)

Note: once this has been installed, the Pathauto module will appear under URL Aliases in your Admin area.

Administration > Site Building > URL aliases

Page Title

'Page Title' contributed module is pretty groovy I must say .. once you get your head around what it does. And it is important for SEO purposes. So if Google, search engine, getting your site found, etc. is important to you, then you will want to get this Drupal (contributed) module.

You can read more information on this module's official download page.

Token

Token contributed module was installed because a number of other modules (I wanted) need to use this. Basically it provides short bits of text to represent longer variables.
For example, the token
[nid] gives your the NodeID
[title] gives you Node title
and so on.
You can view a whole list of token on drupal.org/node/307140
or if you have the 'page title' contributed module installed, you can also find a list of tokens via:

Nodewords

This contributed module is very useful and I will using it in all my multi-site Drupal installations. It gives you much better control over the meta tags (like description, keywords) - which is all pretty much essential for search engines & SEO purposes.

You can read more information on the this module's official download page.

Global Redirect

In a nutshell, this module helps the URLs that are used and displayed in the browser. It is also important for SEO purposes and to make sure you do not have duplicate content (i.e. multiple URLs representing the same content) - something that Google does not like.

You can read more information on this module's official download page.

Contributed Module 'global redirect'

downloaded from: drupal.org/project/globalredirect

Modules

As with my Themes implementation, you don't need to add on modules for your Drupal site to work.
However I came across many suggestions of 'vital' modules, with suggestions that these are so useful that they should really be part of Drupal's core set of modules.

Well I have implemented a few of these, in the order as follows. They work (for me) and I find the above suggestions to be true. So you can follow along and implement these if you like.