A standard Drupal install
Here is a list of the modules we generally end up installing for a standard Drupal 6 based site. If you have further recommendations please add as comments! Note some modules will be bound into the core and not required as external modules.
In no particular order:
- Drupal 6 – http://drupal.org/node/579476
- Admin Role – http://drupal.org/project/adminrole
- Save & Edit – http://drupal.org/project/save_edit
- Admin menu – http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu
- ZEN Theme – http://drupal.org/project/zen
- CCK – http://drupal.org/project/cck
- CCK fileField – http://drupal.org/project/filefield
- CCK insert – http://drupal.org/project/insert
- ImageCache – http://drupal.org/project/imagecache
- WYSIWYG – http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg
- Views – http://drupal.org/project/views
- XML sitemap – http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap
- Menu Block – http://drupal.org/project/menu_block
- Sitemap – http://drupal.org/project/site_map
- Webform – http://drupal.org/project/webform
- Backup and migrate – http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
- Legal – http://drupal.org/project/legal
- Pathauto – http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
- Node clone – http://drupal.org/project/node_clone
- ImageApi – http://drupal.org/project/imageapi
- ImageField – http://drupal.org/project/imagefield
- Menu Attributes – http://drupal.org/project/menu_attributes
- Token (needed for pathauto) – http://drupal.org/project/token
- Checkbox Validate (required by Legal) -Â http://drupal.org/project/checkbox_validate
- Suggested Terms (Helper for taxonomy) – http://drupal.org/project/suggestedterms
- Sitemap – http://drupal.org/project/site_map
- jQuery plugins – http://drupal.org/project/jquery_plugin
- Google Analytics – http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics
Extras
- Node Hierarchy – http://drupal.org/project/nodehierarchy
Also add to the bottom of the .htaccess file in the root this line to allocate some more memory (where your web hosting company will allow):
php_value memory_limit 64M
Good list Nick, there’s a few in there I haven’t looked at
We used the admin module on dshed.net, for a nice slick admin theme + UI helpers:-
http://drupal.org/project/admin
cheers rick. Its working progress so any thoughts much appreciated. The admin theme look good – did you have any worries / issues installing a beta release?