Hi today I would like to share 10 most frequently used module in Drupal.

Though Drupal have thousands of contributed modules. But there are always some good modules one should install when do a fresh installation as these would always help you in one way or the other.

From the developer side:

Devel: Must have tool for developer to debug site. and also it gives you options to generate dummy content that is very useful on the early stage of site development.

Backup & Migrate: This allows you to easily dump the sites database minus cache tables which is great for migrating the site across environments and also periodic backup that runs on cron.

Drush : Its a command line site administration tool.

Site Building:

Views: One of the most powerful module drupal have in it's bucket.

How views module can help you in site building

• Helps you build the front page of site
• Helps to create list/tables of content in different style in different sorted order for example alphabetically, numerically etc.
• Restrict content to posts only on certain type.
• You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display articles the way you like.
• Want to display a block with the 5-10 most recent posts of some particular type.
• Want to provide 'unread forum posts'.
• You want a monthly archive similar to the typical Movable Type/Wordpress archives and displays them in a block. The links lead to a simple list of posts for that month.
Reference : https://www.drupal.org/project/views

Entity Reference: helps in relating entity content (like a node reference).

Date: Allows date fields to be added to content with beautiful javascript-powered popup calendars and has Views integration.

Link: Allows link fields to be added to content

Email: Allows email fields to be added to content with validation

Media: A powerful module for all types of media.

Pathauto: It helps to generate automatic path aliasing.

Thanks