Modules : Top 10 Drupal 5 and Top 10 Drupal 6 Modules

Drupal is awesome and grows in awesomeness all the time. It's easy to fall for the glam and glitz of certain jQuery and multimedia modules and install them all. So take some time to read the forums and you'll find that a lot can be achieved with CCK+Views and template.php instead. Remember: less modules means less system load, better performance and easier upgradability!

So without further ado, here are my top 10 modules for Drupal 6 and Drupal 5. It's safe to say, we need not talk about Drupal 4.7 (even less Drupal 4.6, eek!).

Drupal 6: Top 10 Modules
Best Drupal 6 Modules

• Pathauto + Token: a must, automatically generates url aliases based on Token
• Views: create customized views of nodes
• Content Construction Kit (CCK): defines new content types with custom fields
• Imagefield + Filefield: defines an image field type
• Imagecache: allows automatic image manipulation, such as resize and crop (extendible to add watermark, rotate, add border, etc.)
• Gmap Module: inserts Google Maps into nodes based on Location fields
• Location (API, module): associates geographic location with content/user
• Google Analytics: adds Google Analytics code to all pages, ability to cache GA code!!!
• Lightbox2: enables Lightbox2 image display, and love Stella!!!
• Devel: new Theme Developer component is all shades of niftiness

More Drupal 6 Modules
Meh, who's counting?

• Automatic Nodetitles: allows hiding of title field and automatic generation of title based on Tokens
• Date: defines date/time CCK field, works well with Automatic Node Title
• TinyMCE: the most popular WYSIWYG editor for advanced content editing, UI extremely configurable
• Content Templates: only used to fiind variable names, not used in live site

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