Essential Drupal Modules

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Module name		"status"	5.14	6.8	Notes
Administration menu.	theme-independent administration interface at the top of a website provides extremely fast access to administrative resources and functions	a must	yes	yes
Poor Man's Cron.	runs cron operations without having to know how to create a crontab. Cron is necessary for all sorts of things that need to be done at regular intervals in order to make your drupal site function correctly - like indexing etc.	Now Obsolete. See the Scheduling Service on http://tools.stanford.edu
Login Destination	This module controls where users go after logging in. You can configure login destination on a settings page. It will be either static URL or a PHP snippet evaluating your own site's logic. You can also configure which pages redirection is applied.	very, very useful tool	yes	yes
Content Construction Kit (CCK)	Gives you the ability to model your own data types. There are oodles of modules that build off of CCK.	a must
Views	Gives you the ability to display those data types any way you want.	a must	Views	Views 2
Panels	Allows you to position your data anywhere you want on the page.	good to have
Date	used for calendar and event	used with calendar
Event	creates event content type and provides calendar interface		yes	no	events are configured through views
Calendar	provides calendar interface	good to have
Organic groups	Create as many groups as you want (e.g. users, staff, etc.), restrict content by grou	good to have
TinyMCE Replaced by Wysiwyg API	Rich text editor (Word-like)	almost a must
ImageCache	Allows you to make as many copies of an image you want at any size depending on location or anything else you specify.
IMCE with bridge to TinyMCE http://drupal.org/project/imce_wysiwyg	IMCE is an image/file uploader and browser that supports personal directories and quota	almost a must			two step upload / insert with WYSIWYG
Community Tag	Allows users to create and assign their own tags to content
Tagadelic	Creates a Tag Cloud.
Pathauto	automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system which the administrator can control.	almost a must
Token	Used for PathAuto
Custom Breadcrumbs	This allows CCK-style node types to have "Home > User Blog > 2005 > January" style breadcrumbs on the node view page itself, syncronizing cleanly with custom views or pathauto aliases	works with views
Print	provides printable view, email link, pdf version	good to have			requires additonal pdf tool and extra formatting for print css.
Views alpha pager	The views_alpha_pager is a simple module that implements an alphabet pager (A B C) instead of a numeric pager (1 2 3) for views	works with views	yes	embedded in views, glossary view
Jstools	Set of VERY useful js tools - tabs in search, collapsiblock, active search, active edit	good to have	yes	yes	I use it to collapse blocks and to filter results in search
Biblio.	Add citations, item records, books, articles, journals, web pages, etc. You can import from RefWorks or EndNote.
Nicemenus	provides multilevel drop down menus (via css)
Webform	very useful for forms and surveys	good to have
Captcha	Keeps the spam couties away.
vcard	The vCard module adds a vCard download link to every users profile. This link makes it easy to add users on your Drupal site to your local address book			works with profiles only
Devel	Developer tools (theme and module)		yes
importexportapi			yes	no
taxonomy_xml	export/import taxonomy			yes	rdf import/export worked best, others with problems
wordpress import					works only sometimes