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Major modules in Acquia Drupal
Acquia Drupal is a selection of the best software available in the Drupal community to build and operate great Drupal social publishing websites. Acquia Drupal consists of Drupal Core, community contributed modules, and Acquia Network modules.
Drupal 6.x Core
At the foundation of every Drupal site, Drupal core provides the basic content types, user administration, taxonomy and system management capabilities for Acquia Drupal. Here's just a sampling of the modules that ship with Drupal 6.x core:
| Aggregator | Aggregates syndicated content (RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds). |
| Blog | Enables keeping easily and regularly updated user web pages or blogs. |
| Blog API | Allows users to post content using applications that support XML-RPC blog APIs. |
| Book | Allows users to structure site pages in a hierarchy or outline. |
| Comment | Allows users to comment on and discuss published content. |
| Contact | Enables the use of both personal and site-wide contact forms. |
| Content translation | Allows content to be translated into different languages. |
| Forum | Enables threaded discussions about general topics. |
| Menu | Allows administrators to customize the site navigation menu. |
| OpenID | Allows users to log into your site using OpenID. |
| Path | Allows users to rename URLs for improved SEO. |
| Poll | Allows your site to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions. |
| Profile | Supports configurable user profiles. |
| Search | Enables site-wide keyword searching. |
| Statistics | Logs access statistics for your site. |
| Taxonomy | Enables the categorization of content. |
| Tracker | Enables tracking of recent posts for users. |
| Trigger | Enables actions to be fired on certain system events, such as when new content is created. |
| Upload | Allows users to upload and attach files to content. |
Community Modules
From the thousands of Drupal modules, Acquia has selected some of the most commonly used and essential community modules for building modern, social publishing websites without programming. Acquia works closely with each module maintainer to ensure compatibility with the latest release of Drupal and to remain up-to-date with bug fixes and security updates.
The Drupal community modules distributed in Acquia Drupal provide a cohesive suite of capabilities that offer the flexibility to create custom content types, configure views, manage images, add ratings to any content node, and track website usage.
| Administration Menu | Renders a menu tree for administrative purposes as dropdown menu at the top of window. | |
| Advanced Help | Provides context sensitive online help for modules, including Views. | |
| Calendar | Displays any Views or CCK date fields in calendar formats. | |
| CCK (Content Construction Kit) | Enables the creation of custom content types without programming. | |
| Content | Allows administrators to define new content types. | |
| Content Copy | Enables ability to import/export field definitions. | |
| Content Permissions | Set field-level permissions for CCK fields. | |
| Date | Define date/time field type. | |
| Fieldgroup | Create field groups for CCK fields. | |
| Filefield | Defines a file field type. | |
| ImageField | Defines an image field type. | |
| Link | Defines a URL field type. | |
| Node Reference | Defines a field type for referencing one node from another. | |
| Number | Defines numeric field types. | |
| Option Widgets | Defines selection, check box and radio button widgets for text and numeric fields. | |
| Text | Defines simple text field types. | |
| User Reference | Defines a field type for referencing a user from a node. | |
| Comment notify | Sends notification e-mails to visitors about new comments on pages where they have commented. | |
| Fivestar | A simple five-star voting widget for nodes. | |
| Google Analytics | Adds Google Analytics javascript tracking code to all your site's pages. | |
| Image | Allows uploading, resizing and viewing of images. | |
| Image Attach | Allows easy attaching of image nodes to other content types. | |
| Image Gallery | Allows sorting and displaying of image galleries based on categories. | |
| Image Import | Allows batches of images to be imported from a directory on the server. | |
| ImageMagick Advanced Options | Adds advanced options to the ImageMagick image toolkit. | |
| Image Assist | Enables users to upload and insert inline images into posts. | |
| ImageAPI | Provides ImageAPI supporting multiple toolkits. | |
| ImageCache | Allows you to dynamically manipulate and cache images. | |
| Lightbox | Used to overlay images on the current page. | |
| Markdown filter | Allows content to be submitted using Markdown syntax. | |
| Mollom | Protects against comment and contact form spam. | |
| Pathauto | Provides a mechanism for modules to automatically generate aliases for the content they manage. | |
| Printer, e-mail and PDF versions | Generates printer-friendly and PDF versions of pages, and "send to a friend" email functionality. | |
| Tagadelic | Makes weighted tag clouds from your taxonomy terms. | |
| Token | Provides a shared API for replacement of textual placeholders with actual data. | |
| Views | Create customized lists and queries from your database. | |
| Views Exporter | Allows exporting multiple views at once. | |
| Views UI | Administrative interface to create and edit views. | |
| Voting API | Provides a shared voting API for other modules. | |
| Webform | Enables creation of questionnaires, contact or request/register forms, surveys, and polls. | |
Acquia Network Modules
The Acquia Network modules enable your Acquia Drupal installation to communicate securely with the Acquia Network. These modules send configuration, operation and profile information securely with the Acquia Network to ensure the effective operation of your Acquia Drupal sites and speed support resolution processes.
| Acquia Agent | Allows Acquia Drupal to securely communicate with the Acquia Network and check for updates. |
| Acquia Site Information | Sends site profile including platform, module, and theme information to the Acquia Network to facilitate support and update notifications. |