What Modules DrupalDude.com Uses

I had someone ask me what modules this site uses. The list is relatively short compared to some of the sites I've set up. I didn't list the core modules that are required, but the optional ones are listed. So here goes: CCK

• Content - I needed this module to add the web link content type

Core - Optional

• Color - Changed the color of the theme to a dark blue
• Comment - Enables comments
• Contact - Enables the contact form
• Help - Enables Drupal's help
• Menu - Enables the menu system
• Path - Enables renaming of the URL path
• Ping - Pings certain websites upon creation of content
• Profile- Adds a profile field to make Adsense Module work
• Search - Adds the search functionality
• Taxonomy - Enables the category system in Drupal
• Tracker - Enables tracking of posts
• Upload - Allows you to upload pictures

Image

• Image - Allows images

Other

• Adsense - Enables adsense blocks
• Amazon Associate Tools - Adds a content type for managing Amazon books for there affiliate program (yes, I do get a percentage when you buy a book of my site... so buy one up)
• Digg This - Hooks website in with Digg.com so you can Digg articles
• Google Analytics - Hooks website in with Google Analytics
• Thickbox - Adds fancy image viewing tricks
• Node Images - Adds images above post content
• Meta Tags - Adds meta tags
• Pathauto - Renames the URL path autoatically based on title of post
• Poormanscron - Runs the cron jobs
• Porter Stemmer - Provides added search functionality by stemming search terms
• Scheduler - Allows scheduling of posts
• Taxonomy Context - Provides a menu with the categories from Taxonomy module
• TinyMCE - Enables rich text editing in the browser
• Trackback -Provides trackback functionality for bloggers
• Web Links - Provides new content type for weblink
• XML Sitemap - Adds google sitemaps

Site Advertising

• Adsense Injector - Adds adsense ads to content

Spam control

• Captcha - Base captcha module for adding captcha challenges to registration, comment and contact forms
• Image Captcha - Captcha based module that implements image based captchas

Syndication 

• Feedburner - Handles the Feedburner XML feed

 In future posts I will explaining how and why I am using some of these modules for my Drupal site. I also have used a lot more modules than these and I plan on having future posts on those as well.