modules

Please see the introduction to contrib (third-party) modules before installing anything listed on this page.

The following information is provided as-is with no warranty or guarantees of any kind!  While members of the campus community have recommended the following modules for their listed purposes, it's perfectly possible you could blow up your Drupal website if you don't know what you're doing and install them incorrectly or alongside other modules that are incompatible.

Please see the introduction to contrib (third-party) modules before installing anything listed on this page.

The following information is provided as-is with no warranty or guarantees of any kind!  While members of the campus community have recommended the following modules for their listed purposes, it's perfectly possible you could blow up your Drupal website if you don't know what you're doing and install them incorrectly or alongside other modules that are incompatible.

A number of custom modules for Drupal have been created by groups at Georgia Tech to aid campus web developers in building Drupal sites and connecting to Georgia Tech specific data sources.  The vast majority of these modules can be found in our central repository, and some of the more notable modules are described below:

Location and gmap modules provide embedded Google Maps for Drupal websites. 

However, the documentation and readme for configuring both of these modules is sparse, if available. Most documentation on how to utilize these modules as a pairing exist in knowledgebase entries and bug reports, which makes development using these two modules a chore.

Installing and configuring these modules takes a few main steps.

Besides performance modules, there are several other methods for increasing the performance of your Drupal site.

Disable Modules Only Needed During Development

Only enable these modules while actively developing, and then turn them off the rest of the time.

There are also quite a few modules that attempt to cache resource-heavy actions on Drupal.

Getting Started with Performance Module

For most websites, core Drupal caching should be sufficient to keep CPU/memory usage down and keep your website running smoothly. However, for larger and more complex websites, additional caching and optimization will be needed.

For your specific website (and its use cases, structure, and workflows), please browse through the modules below and see which module(s) may work for your website. 

The Drupal community on campus has found a number of modules which help with using CKEditor:

IMCE

Versions: Drupal 10, 7

​IMCE can be used for managing images, and you might even use imce for files, as well.

Installation instructions for IMCE:

A "rich text" or "WYSIWYG" (What You See is What You Get) text editor gives your content editors a way to create and maintain content using an interface that looks and feels a lot like using a word processor.  Formatting is applied using button controls, so the content editor doesn't have to know anything about HTML and can immediately see what the content is going to look like after it has been saved.

This section describes third-party (non-Georgia Tech) modules that could be useful for your Drupal site.  These are often referred to in Drupal documentation as "contrib" modules.