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11 Cool Drupal modules for site builders | April 2016

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Joris Snoek

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Let’s start straight away with the things that struck me about Drupal module updates of last month:

1. Image effects

The Drupal 8 and Drupal 7 core both have features to facilitate graphics, including scaling and cropping.

To perform other actions, Drupal 7 had additional modules: ImageCache Actions and Textimage:

  • Placing overlays, for example for round corners
  • Adding a watermark, for example your logo
  • Placing text over image, for example your company name
  • Making images lighter/darker

In Drupal 8 these additional image features are now available in this module.

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2. Currently logged in users

Provides a list of logged in visitors with additional information, such as:

  • Since when logged in
  • Hostname
  • IP address

You can also force users to log out when you are a site admin.

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3. Drop down login

Create space on your page and place the login block under a dropdown button.

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4. Views Send

Do you want to send a bulk email to a selection of users in your Drupal website? For example to inform them about an update? Through this module you can use Views to make a selection and then use fields from that selection to send personal bulk emails.

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5. Google Analytics Reports

Provides a graphic report of page visits to your Drupal website using data from Google analytics. Has been around since 2011, but just had a stable 3.0 release.

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6. Quick tabs

Simple, but effective and popular to create tabs in content on your Drupal website.

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7. Bootstrap Site Alert

Are you running a Drupal theme on the Bootstrap HTML framework? Great! Then you can now easily display a message at the top of your website - through this module. For example to inform users about upcoming maintenance or a performed update.

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8. Code filter

An alternative for the Geshi module: gives the correct highlighting to code in your Drupal content.

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9. AJAX Comments

By default Drupal has a good system for comments/responses, but when someone is giving a response (for example to a news item) then the page will always load again. The response is not instantly placed underneath the item, like for example Facebook is doing.

This module ensures a response will be placed without refreshing the page.

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10. User IP log

Convenient administration module that stores IP’s from logged in Drupal users. This let’s you analyze if there is suspicious activity.

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11. Views Accordion

Simple but popular module, similar to the above mentioned ‘Quick tabs’: this makes an accordion of Views results.

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