Introduction to Jay’s Winter List

It has been awhile since I have published a top modules list for Drupal so I thought with Drupal 8 coming out soon it was time for one last top Drupal 7 modules list. As I have stated in past blogs on this subject, it can be very challenging to sort through the literally thousands of modules available for Drupal. Therefore, what I like to do as an 8 year veteran of Drupal is routinely publish a list of modules that I use most often on projects. In doing so I hope to give newbie developers a good list to start with. Some intermediate developers might also find a handful of less obvious modules that can help them out on their next project as well.

NOTE: that I have tried to indicate on the list where I have made changes. You will see several 'New' and 'Update' labels. 'New' does not mean new to Drupal, but rather new to the list.

There are many modules that I use but not as often that didn't make the list or modules that I haven't even heard about. Please leave me feedback in the comments section and let me know which modules you think should be on this list. Thanks!

Jay’s List



Administration

Admin Menu *Update

The admin menu is basically the defacto standard module for developers to navigate through the maze of Drupal administrative menus. I previously had the admin module here as well, but I don't see as many developers using this module now. I am pretty hopeful that with the redesigned Drupal 8 administrative menu that we will no longer need to use this module in D8. Features

A great tool for developers to backup their various configuration (Panels, Views, content types) to code. In Drupal 8 a lot of the work Features does now will be handled by configuration management but I imagine Features will still have some kind of a role in the future.

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