The document introduces some of the most popular Drupal modules for site building, SEO, and publishing. It describes 15 modules in detail, including Views, Context, Date, Entity Reference, Pathauto, and Webform for site building; Google Analytics, Path Redirect, Link Checker, and Metatag for SEO; and Nodequeue, Workbench, and Scheduler for publishing. The presentation encourages attendees to contact the speaker or Hong Kong Drupal User Group for more help with Drupal.

1. Hong Kong Drupal User Group
(HKDUG)
Introduction of
some most popular Drupal modules
DrupalCamp Hong Kong
2014 July 12th

2. Francis Yan
● COO
– kpyan8s@pantarei-design.com
● Drupal user & contributor
– https://drupal.org/user/863988
● HKDUG Co-organizer
– https://groups.drupal.org/drupalhk

3. PantaRei Design
● Hong Kong based Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) service
provider
– Content Management System (CMS) with Drupal
– Cloud hosting with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
● Business Partnership
– 2012 - AWS Consulting Partner
– 2013 - Acquia Partner
– 2013 - Atlassian Experts
– 2014 - Rackspace Hosting Partner
● FOSS Contributor
– 2008 - Hong Kong Drupal User Group Co-founder
– 2012 - Drupal Services Provider

8. Outline
● What is a Drupal module?
● Site building related modules
● SEO related modules
● Publishing related modules
● Q&A

9. What is a Drupal module?
● Extend and customize Drupal functionality
● Maintained by around 34,000 developers
● 15,345 modules available in Drupal.org
– Date : 2014-07-13
● 200 modules in DruStack distribution
– https://www.drupal.org/project/drustack

12. Site building related modules
● CCK
● Views
● Context
● Date
● Entity Reference
● Field Group
● Link

13. Site building related modules
(con't)
● Menu Block
● Pathauto
● Webform

14. CCK
● Add custom fields to nodes using a web
browser
● Moved to Drupal 7 core
● https://www.drupal.org/project/cck

16. Views
● Create dynamic content filtering using a web
browser
– Filter criteria
– Field display
– Display format
– Relationship
● https://www.drupal.org/project/views

18. Context
● Manage contextual conditions and reactions
● Centralized management for multiple elements
● https://www.drupal.org/project/context

20. Date
● Contains a flexible date/time field type
● Provide API that other modules can use
– Date popup
– Date repeat
– Calendar
● https://www.drupal.org/project/date

22. Entity Reference
● Relate entities to one another
– nodes, terms, users, etc...
● Integration with Views
● https://www.drupal.org/project/entityreference

24. Field Group
● Group fields together
● HTML wrappers e.g. tabs
● https://www.drupal.org/project/field_group

26. Menu Block
● Display menu link from specify level, e.g.
– Starting from Level 2+
– Only Level 2 and 3
● https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_block

28. Pathauto
● Automatically generates URL/path aliases
– Nodes
– Taxonomy terms
– Users
● Showing /about-us instead of /node/1
● https://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto

30. Webform
● Making surveys in Drupal
● Sent an e-mail to administrators and users
● Results can be exported
● https://www.drupal.org/project/webform

32. SEO related modules
● Google Analytics
● Path Redirect
● Link Checker
● Search 404
● Metatag
● XML Sitemap

33. Google Analytics
● Adds the Google Analytics web statistics
tracking system
● https://www.drupal.org/project/google_analytics

35. Path Redirect
● Specify a redirect from one path to another path
● Avoid broken link after website revamp
● https://www.drupal.org/project/path_redirect

37. Link Checker
● Extracts links from your content
● Periodically tries to detect broken hypertext
links
● https://www.drupal.org/project/linkchecker

39. Search 404
● When page not found
– performs a search on the keywords in the URL
● https://www.drupal.org/project/search404

41. Metatag
● Automatically provide structured metadata
● Help improve the rankings and display in
search engine results
● https://www.drupal.org/project/metatag

43. XML Sitemap
● Creates a sitemap
– Conforms to the sitemaps.org specification
● Helps search engines to more intelligently crawl
a website
● Automatically submit to search engine
● https://www.drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

45. Publishing related modules
● Nodequeue
● Workbench
● Scheduler

46. Nodequeue
● Collect nodes in a list
● Given to choices subject to individual will
● Integrated with Views
● https://www.drupal.org/project/nodequeue

48. Workbench
● Provide unified and simplified UI for users
● Customizable editorial workflow that integrates
with the access control
● https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench

50. Scheduler
● Allows nodes to be published and unpublished
on specified dates
● Depends on cron job
● https://www.drupal.org/project/scheduler

51. References
● https://www.drupal.org/project/drustack
● http://roborr.net/blog/website-development/35-must
● http://www.axzm.com/top-25-drupal-7-modules

52. I Need More Help!
● Read documents from Drupal Community
– https://drupal.org/documentation
● Join Hong Kong Drupal User Group
– Event organizing: http://www.meetup.com/drupalhk
– Technological discussion: https://groups.drupal.org/drupalhk
– Business connection:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/?gid=6644792
– General sharing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/drupalhk

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55. Q&A