carlos.rinconsanchez.com My personal Blog - List of Drupal 6 best modules to make a blog

Carlitus - April 7, 2008 - 21:29

Hi, i'm Carlos Rincón, founder and programmer of Neurotic. Finally, I created my personal blog two days ago using Drupal 6. You can see it at http://carlos.rinconsanchez.com. The Theme i used it's Deco, my favorite Drupal 6 theme.

I've made in my blog a post about the best modules of Drupal 6 to make a blog (the same i used for my blog, of course), it's in Spanish but i will translate for the people interested in knowing the modules that i've used (yes, my English it's a shit, sorry):

Drupal 6 core modules:

  • Comment
  • Contact
  • Database logging
  • Help
  • Locale
  • Menu
  • Path
  • Ping
  • Profile
  • Search
  • Statistics
  • Taxonomy
  • Update Status
  • Upload

Drupal 6 modules

Must have

  • Img filter: Allows to insert images into the post. Very easy and useful
  • Comment Subscribe: This module allows anonymous as well as registered users to subscribe to individual comments of given node
  • Meta tags: To manage metatags. Very useful to fill meta description with the node teases
  • Mollom: Helps you to detectate spam and poor quality comments
  • Pathauto: To automate the creation of friendly urls using placeholders
  • Pingback: To manage pinbacks, better than trackback module
  • Token: The Token module provides a central API for modules to use these tokens, and expose their own token values. It's needed by Pathauto module
  • Tagadelic: To make a tag cloud
  • Fivestar: allows users to vote the posts
  • VotingAPI: Needed by Fivestar

Usefull but not indispensable

  • Iconizer: Adds beautiful icons ind administration panel using pure CSS
  • PHPids: PHPIDS module adds a security layer based on http://www.php-ids.org
  • Search404: Instead of showing a standard "404 Page not found", this module performs a search on the keywords in the URL
  • Extlink: Adds and icon to external links
  • Graphstat: Graphstat uses data from the statistics, user, node, and comment modules to generate some graphs
  • TextSize: This module display a text resizer in a block for better Web Accessibility.
  • Google Analytics: Adds the Google Analytics web statistics tracking system to your website
  • Search Engine Referers: Search Engine Referers is a simple module to view the search queries of visitors that found your site with a search engine

Must have or only useful but still with no Drupal 6 version

  • XML Sitemap: XML Sitemap creates a site map in accordance with the sitemaps.org specification. For google, yahoo, ask and more
  • Globalredirect: To avoid duplicate content. For example it does a redirection from node/123 to the url alias
  • Related content: I still don't know what is the best for me.
  • Twitter: This module provides twitter notification for new posts
  • Thickbox: The Thickbox module is a wrapper for the jQuery plugin ThickBox
  • Copyright: The copyright management module can set and display a copyright/license for a Drupal site and for any node
  • Multiping: It allows pinging of multiple sites (configurable via a web interface). There is a Drupal 6 version but doesn't work well

¿What do you think about? ¿Do you miss any module?

(you can copy this post, but please, put me a link to the Spanish original post http://carlos.rinconsanchez.com/lista-de-los-mejores-modulos-para-crear-...)

There is a Drupal 6 Patch

timmillwood - April 8, 2008 - 13:52

There is a Drupal 6 Patch for Thickbox which I will be testing on my Blog tonight because Lightbox seems to have a problem with Firefox2 on my site.

Also thanks for the blog module suggestions I will have to try some of them.

Tim
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http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk

I prefer to wait

Carlitus - April 8, 2008 - 15:04

Thanks for the advice of the thickbox patch but i prefer to wait the final version.

Web design Neurotic

 
 

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