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Adding functionality to your forum with contribs

Last updated March 31, 2012. Created by Michelle on February 26, 2008.
Edited by DavidT, NonProfit, FanisTsiros, Cliff. Log in to edit this page.

Advanced Forum adds some functionality to the core forum module by itself but, to really emulate stand alone forum software, you need more modules. Many of the modules here are automatically integrated into Advanced Forum, most by way of the Author Pane module which is a requirement.

This page starts you off with suggested modules but you'll also want to visit the community category in the downloads section for more ideas as new modules are constantly being added. You could also see Drupal modules equivalent to phpBB features.

Enhanced user information and interaction

Profile (core)
Flag Friend or User Relationships (Buddylist on D5)
PrivateMsg
User Points
User Badges
User Stats
User Titles
Imagecache Profiles
Facebook-style Statuses
Ignore User

Content entry

BUEditor or wysiwyg
Live
Quote
Smileys
Signatures for Forums
Comment Upload

Forum Moderation

modr8
Abuse
Comment Mover
Re: Comment subjects

Administration, and Utility

Forum Access
Fast Toggle
Flatcomments (Forces all replies to be against the node to avoid deleting issues with hidden threading.)
Edit Limit Enables setting of a time limit for editing original posts (nodes) and replies (comments).

Misc

Subscriptions or Notifications or Comment Notify or Comment RSS

Page status

Needs updating

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