Drupal Modules: Make your Site Better than Today

  Drupal Jungle    January 4, 2013    1402

 

Drupal, a well-known CMS platform, offers wide range of features and services that leads a site to the success phase. The initial step that every developer takes when starting a new Drupal website is installing a plethora of modules. But out of tons of modules present out there, selecting the best modules is a tough row to hoe.

For your convenience, below we have mentioned some modules that would help in extending the core functionalities of your Drupal site, making your site highly functional and easy to use. Let's have a look at these useful and amazing modules to guide you in making an astounding website:

  • Global Redirect:
  • There are times when two or more URL's of a site redirects to the page with the same content. Hence, in order to avoid confusion and duplicity, Global Redirect is a module that redirects the URL to the aliased path so that the search engine crawlers don't index the non-aliased version of the site.

  • Google Analytics:
  • keeping a track record of the visitors that land to our site always brings good and efficient results. Google Analytics is a module that helps you track the visitors landing to your Drupal site. It is a free tool that helps you track the statistics of your website.

  • XML Sitemap:
  • This is a very useful module for your site. It cuts down the work of search engine. How? It creates a XML sitemap of your Drupal site and submits it to the serach engine automatically which therefore helps the search engine crawlers to access the content of your site easily and increases the visibility of your site's content in the search engines as well.

  • Secure Password Hashes:
  • We all agree to the fact that “Security is Priority” , Secure Password Hashes is a module that adds another level to the security of your password. But this module once installed cannot be uninstall ever in future.

  • Panels:
  • Panels is a module that helps the administrator of a Drupal website to create customized layouts and also allows the admin to segregate the website pages into multiple panels.

  • Administration Menu:
  • When logged in as an administrator of the site, Administration Menu is a module that creates a drop down menu at the top of the page of the site. This results in easy navigation of the various admin areas of the site quickly.

  • Fivestar:
  • This is one interesting module that enables you to rate the content of the site. Fivestar module allows you to attach a rating widget to all types of content or only to those that have been specified by you.

    So there you go! All the above mentioned modules are the important Drupal modules that will help make your site a lot better than now.

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