Must Have Drupal Modules

Must have Drupal Modules

Administration Menu speeds up managing your Drupal site and various settings by providing a sleek dropdown menu at the top of your usual Drupal installation.

PathAuto for creating Search Engine friendly URLs. Is a must if you want to maximize the amount of visits you get from search engines.

Captcha and reCaptcha and Mollom to minimize comment spam. Using Captcha can discourage some users from posting. Mollom provides an intelligent way in dealing with spam. Users don't have to input Captcha EVERYTIME they post a comment, but only once in a while to prove that they are human, and not bots.

Wysiwyg allows you and your users to format text, articles, and other forms of content easily with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor. (Install TinyMCE on the wysiwyg folder, then install Image Assist and Image module to be able to upload images directly from the what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor. IMCE is also a must have to work with TinyMCE for uploading images and files.)

Poormanscron for cron jobs--this is a must so any changes you make will be indexed in your own search engines every hour (or any time interval that you set), and for other maintenance tasks.

CCK stands for content construction kit. You can use this tool to create additional content types, aside from page and story type articles.

Views allows you to create custom dynamic content easily. For example, if you want a block that can display 5 of the latest news articles on your site. This is very useful for customizing your site.