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Lullabot Podcast 80: Top 40 Drupal Modules Revisited

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Angie Byron, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, Kent Bye, and Jeff Robbins discuss the latest Drupal news and then revisit the Drupal Top 40 podcast, this time with a list of 50+ "must have" Drupal modules. Enjoy this epic 2 hour podcast!

The List

  1. Views
  2. Pathauto
  3. Admin Menu
  4. Devel / Theme Developer
  5. Schema
  6. WYSIWYG (was TinyMCE) or BUEditor
  7. Organic Groups
  8. Panels and Chaos Tools
  9. i18n
  10. Ubercart
  11. Flag
  12. Calendar and Date
  13. Drush
  14. Content Templates
  15. FiveStar / Voting API
  16. Mollom
  17. Diff
  18. Content Profile
  19. Backup and Migrate
  20. Embedded Media Field
  21. Filefield Sources
  22. Custom Links
  23. FeedAPI (soon to be 'Feeds')
  24. Services
  25. Views Attach
  26. Insert
  27. Automatic Nodetitles
  28. Views Slideshow
  29. SWF Tools
  30. Global redirect
  31. Data module
  32. Table Wizard/Migrate
  33. Scheduler
  34. Workflow
  35. CAPTCHA (or ReCaptcha)
  36. Login Toboggan
  37. Facebook Connect
  38. Comment Notify
  39. Content Access (or Private)
  40. NodeQueue
  41. Views Bulk Operations
  42. Better Formats
  43. Webform
  44. Google Analytics
  45. String Overrides
  46. Memcache
  47. Node reference url widget
  48. Node Clone
  49. Node Export
  50. Read more Link

In core for Drupal 7

  1. CCK
  2. FileField
  3. ImageCache
  4. Image Field
  5. Poormanscron
  6. Admin Role
  7. Vertical Tabs
  8. Token
November 9, 2009 - 10:09am
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Ezra (not verified) on November 9, 2009 - 2:24pm

Nodequeue Drag + Drop

Thanks for the great podcast and for highlighting Nodequeue! You mentioned that Nodequeue lacks a drag & drop interface, but users who have used it in the past few months know that it's had drag & drop for several releases now in the 6.x branch. Seems like it's about time for me to update the screenshot on the project page ;)!

Anonymous (not verified) on November 9, 2009 - 5:52pm

What about Rules? Activity?

What about Rules? Activity? Advanced Forum? User Relationships/Flag Friend? It seems like this list is oriented towards a specific kind of website.

Pasqualle (not verified) on November 9, 2009 - 6:59pm

views size

views is slightly larger than Drupal core

no, it is not
php+js+css (+robots.txt +html help)
drupal-6.x-dev = 2.9 MB
views-6.x-2.x-dev = 1,3 MB

The images for advanced help and the module translations makes the views package larger than the Drupal 6 package..

and for Drupal 7 this argument is really week as the codebase for
drupal-7.x-dev = 6.9 MB

Would you build a Drupal site without views?

hansrossel (not verified) on November 10, 2009 - 5:23am

watcher

Watcher module is a nice alterternative for comment_notify, http://groups.drupal.org/node/15928

RopaOlle (not verified) on November 10, 2009 - 10:34am

Great stuff

Thanks for an entertaining and inspiring podcast, now I just have to build a Drupal site, so I can test all these lovely modules.

Shai Gluskin (not verified) on November 10, 2009 - 8:12pm

Draggable Views Much Easier to Use than Node Queue

On the issue of Nodequeue... if your need is for non-techie content managers to arbitrarily order nodes in a list, the Draggable Views is easier to use than Nodequeue. It takes D6 drag-and-drop and allows you to add a drag-and-drop field to any view.

My regular use-case is to add an admin display designed for content editors to an existing view, and then restrict that view to the content editors.

With Node Queue you have to use Views "Relationships" to get it working, and also not forget to "sort" on the queue as well. In addition, you have to expose your content editors to the "Queue" - "Sub-queue" UI from NodeQueue which is confusing.

(I did not have anything to do with creating or maintaining Draggable Views... though I wish I did ;->).

Thanks for the great podcast!

dasjo (not verified) on November 12, 2009 - 5:51am

let me second that, i found

let me second that, i found draggable views being really util to letting my users organize lists

Korey (not verified) on December 21, 2009 - 2:24pm

I use draggable views too.

I use draggable views too. Works great. Was using nodequeue previously.

mattm (not verified) on November 11, 2009 - 11:38am

Facebook chat

who was getting facebook chat messages throughout the episode!?!

Thanecast (not verified) on November 11, 2009 - 5:01pm

List of Moduals

# Drupal moduals
50 Read More Link
49 Node Export
48 Node Clone
47 Node Reference URL Widget
46 Mem Cache
45 String Over rides
44 Google Analitics
43 Web Form
42 Better Formats
41 Views Bulk Operations
40 Node Cue
39 Content Access
38 Comment Notify
37 Facebook Connect
36 Login Tobogin
35 Captcha & reCaptcha
34 Work Flow
33 scheduler
32 Table Wizard & Migrate
31 Data
30 Global Redirect
29 Swift Tools
28 Views Slideshow
27 Automatic Node Titles
26 Insert
25 Views Attach
24 Services
23 Feed API
22 Cuctomer Links, Custom Pagers, Custom Breadcrumbs
21 Filefield Sources
20 Embedded Media Field
19 Backup and Migrate
18 Content Profile
17 Diff
16 Molum
15 Five Star
14 Contect Template
13 Drush (Ager)
12 Calendar & Date
11 Flag
10 Ubercart
9 I18N
8 Panels (Chaos Tools or "C-Tools")
7 Organic Groups
6 WYSIWYG
5 Schema
4 Devel
3 Admin Menu
2 Path Auto
1 Views

Shai Gluskin (not verified) on November 12, 2009 - 9:40am

Disagree on Assessment as to Why Drupal isn't in Core

Okay... I made it to the end. You guys must have been really burnt by then. Great job.

I thought the discussion on why Views isn't in core was off spot (I just made that up; it's the opposite of "spot on") ;-).

How does @eaton know that Views is installed on only 60% of Drupal sites? I presume he is getting that data from usage stats from drupal.org. Those stats are better than nothing, but they are really, really blunt. How many of the 200K sites phoning home to d.o. are really being used? We have no idea. With D6, unless you opt-out, Drupal phones home. It will even phone home from a local install. People are lazy. I'm sure thousands if not tens of thousands of those sites (without Views installed) were test/evaluation/play-around installs that were never uninstalled.

Eaton mentions the size of Views. From an FTP point-of-view, the difference is negligible in terms of upload time. And as for performance hit; if Views were in core, a bunch of other code could be taken out such as Tracker module, blog module, and likely more.

I think that the the more likely reason Views isn't in core is because Views is under really active development and when you move something into core, development slows down. In addition, Earl Miles (@merlinofchaos) has brought a huge amount of creativity to the Views endeavor and there is a lot of working-by-committee that is involved in getting something in to core that would squelch that creativity.

Anyway, here is the main discussion on moving Views into core.

It will eventually happen. If not by D8, then certainly by D9.

Shai Gluskin (not verified) on November 12, 2009 - 10:24am

I meant, "Why Views isn't in core"

Hmm, I wonder what the deep meaning of that slip could be? :)

Martin Baker (not verified) on November 13, 2009 - 12:11pm

Great job guys

I listened to the previous one before I started on Drupal and it was great to hear an updated list now I know what the hell you're talking about! Definitely picked up a few useful modules I hadn't heard of.

toomanypets (not verified) on November 14, 2009 - 8:35am

Outstanding

Thank you all very much for the effort. This was excellent. I actually listened to the whole thing twice -- I know, I need to get a life.

Anonymous (not verified) on November 22, 2009 - 4:04am

Two modules I just love that

Two modules I just love that are not on the list are Rules & Module Filter.

Natasha Cole (not verified) on November 25, 2009 - 4:39pm

Podcast on Drupal Distributions/Installation Profiles

Hi Team Lullabot,

Thank you so much for great work & entertainment (yes, you are entertaining :) too! )
with podcast, articles, Dvds, modules & everything else.

Could you guys please have a podcast on Drupal Distributions/Installation Profiles. please.. please.. please... Discussing needs, problems, possible issues, benefits, pro & cons to standard drupal, business opportunities like support solutions, legal issues (if they are re-branded) would be great!

We believe & have surveyed that there is a big need for more work in this area of delivering better version of Drupal - OUT OF THE BOX! "that kind of culture shift would be awesome!"

Looking forward to the podcast!

Best Regards,
Natasha Cole,
Drupalpoint.com - Drupal Specialists.

Jugney (not verified) on November 26, 2009 - 12:05am

Yup, I also confess I listen

Yup, I also confess I listen to these podcasts for fun - as I'm driving in my car. I especially enjoy Jeff's sense of humor. This is overall great stuff. Thanks.

James (not verified) on December 1, 2009 - 5:55pm

Drupal Distributions

Natasha, a promising post on Drupal.org today regarding Drupal Distributions: http://drupal.org/node/647374

Jugney (not verified) on November 26, 2009 - 12:06am

By the way...

Drupal Distributions was podcast 75.

panel (not verified) on December 2, 2009 - 12:42am

is panel that usefull when

is panel that usefull when you can do complex layout with a 960grid for example?

frazras (not verified) on December 11, 2009 - 4:23pm

Podcast short

This podcast is only 29:16 in the player, maybe a bug or a site limitation

Paul (not verified) on January 1, 2010 - 3:50am

Thanks & nice job

Really enjoyed this podcast but damn that's a long time to pay attention, maybe it would be better to cut something like this into three to make it easier follow
thanks again nice job

Shaun (not verified) on January 9, 2010 - 4:43pm

Great List of Super Modules

I don't have time to listen to the podcast, but thanks for posting this awesome list. There are so many modules to wade through when implementing a new feature on a Drupal site and there's no easy way to weed out the dead projects. This list contains almost everything I need except for AJAX comments.

Stuart (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 7:15pm

SWF Tools and getID3

Thanks for rating SWF Tools in your top 40! I develop it as a hobby, so it's great to see it's appreciated. In the podcast you ask about getID3 integration. It doesn't have it... yet. But the next release should have it along with some new playlisting features that will be able to pull in stuff, along with some new theming. At least that's the idea. Anyhow, thanks again for rating SWF Tools!