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20 Drupal Modules to Boost Your Website’s Functionality
Drupal is a robust content management system that can do nearly anything you throw at it. Hundreds of Drupal modules –add-ons that extend the functionality of Drupal core–exist to help you create a powerful website. In many pre-built Drupal themes, the primary navigation bar (typically displayed across the top of the page) shows only top-level links. Drop-down, multi-level navigation is not automatically enabled in many themes. You can use Nice Menus to turn on fly-out and drop-down navigation, but you’ll still have to edit your theme files. However, with the Menu Block Drupal module, you can easily add a new block that pulls all relevant navigation links together, and then you can place that new block anywhere on the page–in the content section, for example, or perhaps in the left or right sidebar.Caching: Modules that make Drupal scale | groups.drupal.org
(*) Performance gain is moderate for the default database cache, and usually high for file, PHP opcode, proxy and memory caches if affecting most data. The use of cache reduces PHP processing and/or database querying, and therefore increases speed, performance and scalability. Very high means it skips PHP/Drupal completely (Boost, Varnish).Over the years, I've created a list of ways to make Drupal easier for one of my target audiences: the non-technical admins and editors that run the day-to-day operations of a website. My list is getting huge, but the following six ideas are always reliable. Fast Permissions Administration with CTools and Collapsed Fieldsets The permissions page grows fast. I've seen this page with over 1,500 permissions and it is a painful experience.

