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All the content management systems (CMS) enable website owners the ability to create and maintain their site with ease.
In addition, they help enhance website functionality by offering several add-ons. If you’ve planned on using Drupal as your choice of CMS, then probably you’ve come up with a list of modules that help you perform a range of tasks from providing users with a clickable map to enter latitude and longitude, to the one that help integrate e-commerce functionality into the site and so much more – without writing code.
Drupal modules help you build as well as extend your website in the most efficient manner possible. They help reduce your stress with re-structuring features for your new or existing features. Here we have compiled a list of top 8 latest Drupal modules that you should be aware of.
1. Modernizr
In case you want to know about the features that your browser supports, then Modernizr is the right module for you. It runs tests thats helps to detect which CSS3 and HTML5 features your browsers support. Modernizr enables you to write JavaScript and CSS, irrespective of whether your browser supports any one of those features or not.
2. Respond.js
Web professionals realizes how creating responsive web design can help them in making their site accessible across various platforms and devices. However, due to lack of support of CSS3 Media Query in Internet Explorer 8 (and its lower versions) creates challenges for developers to build responsive web design. Respond.js is an excellent Drupal module that provide solution to this problem, by helping you to add media-query support to IE.
3. Honeypot
Honeypot is a remarkably useful module that helps control spam in your Drupal site. The best aspect about this module is that it presents a user-friendly way in controlling spams in comparison to other methods such as CAPTCHA and others. Spam bots gets attracted towards form fields, especially the ones they believe will provide them the wherewithal to link back to their own site. To capture spam bots, Honeypot adds a field in the form that is only visible to spam bots but remains hidden from Drupal users. As soon as the spam bot enters that additional field, Honeypot module blocks the submission of the form.
4. Menu Editor
Do you wish to conduct bulk editing of your website menus? Well, then Menu Editor is an ideal Drupal module for you. While Drupal allows adding only one menu item at a time, this module gives you the flexibility to update as many menu items as you want simultaneously. In addition, it helps to enhance the “menu editing form” by adding inline text fields and creating items for new content. And so, this module cuts down the number of page visits required for creating the website menu structure.
5. Panelizer
The panelizer module isn’t new, but has been updated and enables to attach panels to any node in your site. It allows you to work for a plethora of entity types. It uses the Page Manager template to seize the node page rendering ability. In a nutshell, it allows you to have better control over the layout of virtually any web page. The best part about this module is that it comes with an In-Place-Editor (IPE) that allows administrators to edit the content without revealing itself to the up-to-date Panel page admin interface.
6. Entity View Mode
If you want to build some non-existent view modes such as “content types”, for enabling administrators to outline customized view modes for entities, then Entity View Mode module best fit your needs. The custom entities are integrated into the entity registry with help of hook_entity_info_alter(), and so the entities can be accessed for any code using the entity_get_info() function.
7. Jquery Update
This module helps to add a more advanced version of jQuery than the one provided by Drupal core. So, if you are interested in adding new versions of jQuery, then you should give this module a try.
Wrapping Up!
If you want to streamline your Drupal development project, and want to save time in creating already existing features and functionalities, then you should choose the right Drupal modules. Hopefully, reading this post will give you an idea about some of the latest Drupal modules that are worth a try.
