Top 10 Community Modules For Drupal

The community of users and customers for business sites are an essential aspect of online marketing. The social networking and user’s community development on the site can be integrated from modules and plugins. Various modules for community development on the Drupal website can provide this with a fair improvement over other general social sites like twitter and face book. These community modules integrate the Drupal site for a larger and effective interaction. In this article, we discuss the top 10 community modules for Drupal.

DrupalGuestbook

Compatible Up To version6

The module for the Drupal guestbook provides a total community aspect from site guestbook and individual user guestbooks. Generally the community modules look up to the Drupal guestbook since these can be integrated with other modules very easily but limited for a few number only. Thus the guestbook actively supports the forum and capability for developing the community of users.

Preview For Drupal Guestbook Module

ProfileSetupAPI

Compatible Up To version7

This module allows other modules to easily plug into, using cTools form wizard to do the heavy lifting/work. Therefore the module plugin acts together for providing users with a form wizard for actively enabling profile while the customer or user may have registered at a site. The module or plugin affects users to develop their own standards with their profile registrations.

UserNotifications

Compatible Up To version6

The module provides admin users the ability and continuation for triggering notifications to be sent when certain events occur on a site. This provides the user with the connect with the community where the interesting developments and events get notified to the user as and when these occur. For this a default notification system is provided.

Preview For User Notifications Module

Twitter_blackbird

Compatible Up To version7

The twitter blackbird module has been an HTML representation for actual and made tweets. The web intent links are not sophisticated but are provided with the module that allow you to reply, retweet or favorite the tweet. Thus the module is a smaller and simpler technical aspect of community forums on the Drupal website.

Qwerly

Compatible Up To version7

The qwerly module and plugin has atmost service capability for more than millions of social web profiles from email, twitter or facebook. This supports results from 125 social networks. Enables and enriches user profiles with social media profiles where the enterprise owners can provide more customers and leads.

Communitytasks

Compatible Up To version7

The committed and requested procedure whenever tasks are volunteered is one of the best provided by the module. Within the module varied possibilities from where tasks can be handled are following – posting task to sites, member committing to site task, organizer marking it as complete and increasing the tasks.

CommunityManagedTaxonomy

Compatible Up To version5

The module opens up categorization of content to a site’s community. The module develops the varied nodes with user defined terms and can ascertain for the user how these terms are themselves organized. Users do not need to be logged in to change terms for content. Structured tags can be made from the word – go.

CommunityMediaProject

Compatible Up To version7

This module has been developed from where the multiple users can submit shows. Similarly the module users can also alter reservations associated to the same Project. Again the same projects can be published with a public URL. This allows the business website to have increased traffic and where the users can configure or set up the site with user projects as they require.

Preview For Community Media Project

SocialToasterforDrupal

Compatible Up To version6

This module is specifically developed for creating and increasing user community to the site. This it does from site visits from customers where the small group of promoters (ambassadors –site users), generates thousands of visitors each month as regular content gets created. It is extremely cost effective and solves the social marketing problem. Users can own the personal social networks and promote content from the Drupal website to similar sites – facebook, twitter, linkedin and myspace.

Status

Compatible Up To version7

The development of this module increases a default node and also a comment system. It provides a robust   and easy manner of advanced social posting. It generally clears the posting as a “status updates” or “comments” where it looks like a facebook added comment or user update.

Conclusion

Business and other websites need social module integration so as to increase and develop their community of users. In this article we have discussed the top 10 community modules for Drupal site. Readers are invited to send their comments.

Written by: Amit Pankaj on February 13, 2012.on February 14, 2012.