Top 5 Modules you should add to Drupal 5

Posted by uNeedStuff on February 1, 2007 at 7:57am

Reading through the site quite a few modules are suggested to install, however some of them seem to be prior to V5. What would you suggest for a basic overall site including articles, blogs, users, roles, and calendar. What would you suggest be the 1st 5 modules I should download.

TIA!
Shari

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1.Pathauto 2.Organic

Posted by Cool_Goose on February 1, 2007 at 7:59am

1.Pathauto
2.Organic Groups
3.Taxonomy theme
4.Views (???)
5.Node(keywords)
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blogs, users, roles are

Posted by VM on February 1, 2007 at 8:02am

blogs, users, roles are already part of the core download.

my top 5 are: (I don't build a site without them)

views (and addons)
cck (and addons)
contemplate
panels
pathauto

Here we go

Posted by uzbekjon on February 1, 2007 at 9:47am

CCK
Views
pathautho
search (don't take it for granted)
taxonomy

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just five, hmm

Posted by Christefano on February 1, 2007 at 11:06am

I would include backup and dba, but they're not ported to D5 yet.

Must... stop...... There... are... so... many....

Thank you!

Posted by cappelle on February 1, 2007 at 6:49pm

I found out about some great modules thanks to this thread (even though I'd checkt 'top module' blog posts and messages in the past).

My top modules to add:

- views
- cck
- contemplate
- pathauto
- jRating

Global Redirect sounds interesting, but why is it your top module?

It's not my "top module" but it's definitely in my top 5

Posted by Christefano on February 2, 2007 at 5:21am

First, when combined with Pathauto or the core path module, Global Redirect removes every unintentional sighting of "node" in URLs. Almost nobody knows (or should know) what "node" means and, from my point of view, users may perceive a website as being more complex or abstract by its use of unfamiliar terminology.

Module developers: please do not use the word "node" in the help text your module exposes to users!

Second, some search engines may sandbox a site if identical content is found at two or more locations on the same website. Global Redirect's documentation only mentions Google, but considering Google's current popularity there's really no excuse to not fix a potential problem. Getting sandboxed can kill a small business.

Standard for Any Drupal Installation

Posted by dsamuel on March 22, 2007 at 10:56pm

I've done quite a few Drupal installaions now, and all of them use the following:

Google Analytics
gsitemap (Google site map)
nodewords (metatags for the site and per node)
pathauton (automatically turn the title into a friendly URL)
captcha (reduce spam on comments)

That's the minimum for almost any installation, except if a site doesn't have comments enabled, drop number five.

Thanks for everyone else's suggestions, there are some good ideas there for me to try.
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Top Modules for Drupal 5

Posted by AdAstra on March 18, 2008 at 9:52pm

Pathauto (would never develop a site without it) + Token
CCK
Views
Imagecache + Imagefield
Date field

Yeah, that's more than 5 :)

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Nice, I want to see more

Posted by JillJack on March 20, 2008 at 7:24pm

Nice, I want to see more about those modules.