Favorite Drupal 7 Modules

The following is a list of some of the best Drupal 7 modules that we use on most of our sites. Much of this list was initially drawn from this article. Please leave a comment below if you want to make any suggestions for this page, or we left something.

Administration Interface

• Administration menu - Turns the administrator toolbar into a dop-down menu making things much easier to access
• Module Filter - Groups modules into side tabs and lets you easily search your installed modules

Structure

• References - Lets you easily create references between content types
• Node Reference URL -  Adds an additional widget to the Node Reference field that prepopulates a reference by the URL.
• EVA: Entity Views Attachment - Views display plugin that allows the output of a View to be attached to the content of any Drupal entity

Layout

• Display Suite -  Display Suite allows you to take full control over how your content is displayed using a drag and drop interface. 

Navigation

• Custom Breadcrumbs - Allows administrators to set up parametrized breadcrumb trails for any node type.
• Pathauto -  Automatically generates URL/path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias.
• Global Redirect - Searches for an alias of the current URL and 301 redirects if found. Stops duplicate content arising when path module is enabled.
• Redirect -  Allows users to redirect from old URLs to new URLs. Useful for redirecting after changing a popular alias.

Development

• Devel -  Various blocks, pages, and functions for developers.
• Google Analytics - Adds the Google Analytics web statistics tracking system to your website.
• Token - Tokens are small bits of text that can be placed into larger documents via simple placeholders

Users and Community

• Advanced Forum - Builds on and enhances Drupal's core forum module
• Gravatar - Use gravatars on your site
• Mollom -  By monitoring content activity on all sites in the Mollom network, Mollom is in a unique position to determine if a post is potentially spam
• reCAPTCHA - Uses the reCAPTCHA web service to improve the CAPTCHA system and protect email addresses.