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