1. Drupal 7 Webinar
10 MODULES IN
20 MINUTES

2. Presented By

3. Jacob Singh
Regional Director India!
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Manages Acquia’s India
operations!
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8 years in Drupal, 5+ in
Acquia.!
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Trainer, speaker, engineer,
consultant and troublemaker
@JacobSingh

4. Prasad Shirgaonkar
Curriculum
Developer,
Acquia Learning
Services!
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Designs and conducts
Training programs on Drupal
and Acquia Products!
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Over 20 years of Industry
experience, 7 years on
Drupal!
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In past, worked on 200+
Drupal projects
@prasadshir

6. Over 7000 modules for D7!
Which ones to use?
The contributed
modules puzzle

7. Can Drupal do X?
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8. “There’s a module for that”
“d.o”
drupal.org/project/modules

9. Tempting variety
Take a “maintenance first” approach to module selection
http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/drupal-maintenance-challenge-and-how-manage-it-part-2

10. Key indicators
Reputation!
Reach!
Currency!
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Maintainers other
contributions and
involvement,!
Community around
module?!
Recent commits
(last 4 weeks)?!
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Related modules?!
IRC, word of
mouth, appearance
in case studies and
blog posts.!
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Recent release?
(green/stable)!
Number of
installations?!
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Integrate with other
modules?
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Issue queue
responsiveness
and maintenance?

11. Reading a project page
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12. Modules in this Webinar
• Selected based on “most downloaded”
modules from Drupal.org/project/modules
• Excluded abstract, helper or API only modules
• Re-arranged and presented based on
functionality groups and ease of
understanding
This is not a scientific study and analysis of ‘top 10’
modules. We intend to peek through the most popular
Drupal modules and present whats possible with Drupal

13. Rich text editors
WYSIWYG

14. Requirements
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Provide WYSIWYG
or Rich Text Editing
Capability to site
users, editors and
admins

15. WYSIWYG

16. WYSIWYG Libraries
• TinyMCE
• NicEdit
• CKEditor
• WYMeditor
• jWYSIWYG
• openWYSIWYG
• markItUp
• FCKeditor
• YUI editor
• Whizzywig
• EpicEditor

17. drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

18. Build ad-hoc survey forms
Webform

19. Requirements
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Build a survey form
to collect ad-hoc
information from
site visitors!
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Build a contact form
for the website!
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Build a form to
accept event
registrations

20. Webform

21. Webform Features
• Build ad-hoc forms to collect data from users
• Display forms in blocks
• Get the form data emailed to specified users
• Download form data in CSV format
• Display custom confirmation or ‘Thank you’
pages

22. drupal.org/project/webform

23. Comprehensive media management
Media + MediaFront

24. Requirements
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Build a video
gallery!
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Manage files and
media on the site

25. Media - media management

26. MediaFront - media players

27. Media Features
• Add media into any textarea
• Add fields to any type of media, eg. captions
on images and genres on audio.
• Flexible display filters for image
manipulation, audio & video players and
more.
• Plugins to use remote media from sites like
YouTube, Flickr, ...
• Mass importing of files.
• Drag and drop upload

28. MediaFront Features
• An open source ( GPL ) and free front end
media solution. With a built in jQuery media
player!
• HTML5 content delivery with dynamic Flash
fallback for non-standard media.
• A dynamic and integrated YouTube and
Vimeo player which the same presentation to
users.
• Easily themable media player using jQuery-UI
ThemeRoller.

29. drupal.org/project/media
drupal.org/project/
mediafront

30. Optimize for Search Engines
Metatag

31. Requirements
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Add Search Engine
Optimization related
information to your
site globally or on
per page basis

32. Metatags

33. Metatag Features
• Extensive meta-tags supported, including
Open Graph tags (Facebook)
• Per-page meta tags for any supported entity,
or using Context, Panels or Views via
included submodules.
• Exportable default meta tag configuration
• Extendable and flexible API

34. drupal.org/project/metatag

35. Powerful query and display builder
Views

36. Requirements
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Display a list of
most recent blog
posts!
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Build a page
showing most
popular products,
also sortable by
users!
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Build a photo
gallery page
Title
Type
Author
Beppu
City guide
Eddie
Lost luggage
Article
Jill
FAQ
Basic page
Joe
Paris
City guide
Susan
What we do
Basic page
Saba
About us
Basic page
Saba

37. Views
Choose base table!
Change types!
Term filters!
Simple sort

38. Views Applications
• List pages of any type of entity - users,
nodes, terms etc
• Photo galleries, Media galleries
• Slideshows
• RSS Feeds
• Downloads page
• Top X nodes / users / terms block
• Lots n lots more!

39. drupal.org/project/views

40. Build and manage complex layouts
Panels

41. Requirements
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Build site
homepage with
complex layout!
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Build custom
layouts per content
type

42. Panels

43. Panels Applications
• Build landing pages with custom content and
layouts
• Build context aware pages - e.g. home page
for logged in users and anonymous users
• Modify layout of system generated pages

44. drupal.org/project/panels

45. Take full control of content display
Display Suite

46. Requirements
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Customize layout of
content when
viewed in different
contexts!
Display a smaller
version of a content
page on home page,
slightly more info
on listing page and
full info on display
page
Header
Left
Right
Footer

47. Display Suite

48. Display Suite Features
• Add custom view modes to any entity
• Show or hide fields per view mode per entity
• Build custom layout for each view mode

49. drupal.org/project/ds

50. Build custom workflows
Rules

51. Requirements
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Send an email to
admin when new
content is posted!
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When user with role
X posts content of
type Y, un-publish
the content

52. Rules

53. Rules Features
• Events
• Add / Modify / Delete any entity
• Events added by contributed modules, e.g.
Flag or Vote
• Conditions
• Comparing any property on the base entity
• Actions
• Perform an action on the base entity
• Perform any system action

54. drupal.org/project/rules

55. Manage site configurations
Features

56. Requirements
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Port your site
configurations like
content types and
views from one
environment to
another

57. Features

58. Features Applications
• Move your site configurations from database
to code making them easier to
• Move between environments
• Check-in in a version control system
• Distribute independently as ‘features’ and
re-use across different sites

59. drupal.org/project/features

60. Power-tools for code developers
Devel

61. Requirements
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Have powerful
development and
debugging tools
while developing
Drupal modules or
themes

62. Devel

63. Devel Features
• Helper functions for Drupal developers
• Print a summary of all database queries
• Print arrays
• Backtrace
• Execute ad-hoc PHP scripts
• Clear caches
• Generate content for testing
• Print node access details
• Much much more...!

64. drupal.org/project/devel

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67. Your questions please!
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