Install Key Drupal Modules – Part 2

Follow the same steps you did in Part 1 for the other modules and install the following modules:

Remember to pick the 7.x releases that end in gz and to not use Development releases.

Advanced Help

http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help

Tokens

Tokens are small bits of text that can be placed into larger documents via simple placeholders, like %site-name or [user]. They will be used by other modules.

http://drupal.org/project/token 

Path Auto

Drupal stores content in nodes.  Path Auto allows you to use URL aliases like/category/my-node-title instead of /node/123.

http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

When you enable Pathauto after installing, if you see Token is not active, activate it as well.

Field Types

http://drupal.org/project/references

Enable Node Reference, References and User Reference.

http://drupal.org/project/field_group

http://drupal.org/project/link

The links module allows you to add links to any content type you add later.  This is a key module for adding links to content and other sites.

Media

http://drupal.org/project/media

You may get the prompt “You must enable the File entity module to install Media.  Would you like to continue with the above?”

Click the Continue button.

 

Text Editor

http://drupal.org/project/bueditor 

Allows some basic text editing capability with buttons in the content text boxes (where you enter content).

Groups

http://drupal.org/project/entity

http://drupal.org/project/features

http://drupal.org/project/panels

Organic Groups (called OG) is a key module.

http://drupal.org/project/og 

If you are prompted with “You must enable the Page manager, Views content panes modules to install OG example.  Would you like to continue with the above?”

Click the Continue button to install OG.

If you are prompted to rebuild the content access permissions, click the Rebuild permissions link to do so (see image below) then when prompted again , click the Rebuild permissions button to confirm you want to do so.

 

Now on to Date module – Install Key Drupal Modules – Part 3

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