Maybe your experience was similar. You learned about Drupal, you thought it was great (still is) and you wanted to make it do more.
Of course, you knew about adding modules. There's a whole section on Drupal.org. You visit the site and WOW! Get ready to surf through over 4,000 modules. You'd have to spend enough time with at least 10-a-day to know what each one does.
Discovering if a) there's a module that does what you want, and b) if its name may transalte into the feature you seek (try to guess what Eldorado Superfly does without reading the description), can be an exercise in exploratory determination - determined to keep exploring that is.
So, here's a video with a few of my tips for making the search process a bit more comfortable. If you've got a helpful tip about searching for and reseaching modules, then, by all means, leave a comment on this site!
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Has anyone thought of creating an index for modules? It seems that it would make sense to be able to look up the feature, see a list of modules that contained or supported it, and click a module name to go to that module's main page.
It might also reduce duplication of effort. I think it was Aaron Winborn who pointed out at DIWD that each of the challenging problems has only one or two modules associated with it, whereas many trivial problems have dozens of modules that have been created to solve each of them. All those trivial solutions clutter the landscape and make it hard to find the one-of-a-kind modules. An index would certainly help make it easier to find what you need.
Has someone already begun this process? Or does someone know of a way to reduce the work involved in creating an index?
I always spent days searching for the right module.
Thanks a lot for the video. There are lots of tipps I never thought about.
Now what I like next would be: How to find a theme?
This is of a similar difficulty for me.
Thanks for the video
Stefan
it is very helpful video!!
vodoleq, from Bulragia
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm used to wordpress but in the last times I introduced to Drupal and I found that there some short of resorurces for this platform...thanks for present me this feature, I will try to take advantatjes of it
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