Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Apparently one of the most important things that drupal.org is missing is the ability to search modules (and probably themes). Of course, every seasoned user of drupal.org knows that this information can be found simply by using the advanced search form. But, not everyone is a seasoned user, especially those who are browsing the project/Modules and/or project/{projectname} pages.
The attached patch provides two new blocks which are a simplified gateway to finding modules/themes. I suggest that they be enabled and then displayed on http://drupal.org/project/Modules and http://drupal.org/project/Themes respectively.
I don't have a strong feeling about whether the themes block should be enabled. Searching themes by word is probably not as useful as searching modules is...
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| search_those_modules.patch | 2.5 KB | greggles |
Comments
Comment #1
dwwBummer: #168819: Add search block for just project nodes
Seems to be awaiting review and testing...
Comment #2
dwwActually, on closer inspection, this restricts to modules or themes...
Maybe this is better (and it is d.o specific, so it belongs here in a separate issue).
Comment #3
dwwBoth patches look fine to me. I don't really care which one we go with (or both). Any preferences?
This one also searches project_release nodes, which is interesting. Not sure if that's what we want, but it's a neat idea.
Comment #4
dwwAfter review, I just committed #168819 to project. Still awaiting feedback on if we want this one for d.o itself, or just use that.
Comment #5
Crell commentedLet's try the one in project* first. If we find that's insufficient and need modules and themes separated, we can toss this in as well for d.o.
Comment #6
dwwOk, the other one is now deployed. Let's forget about the module/theme specific approach for now. We can always reopen this if we need to.