7. Drupal Modules Explained

If you’ve used a mobile phone in the last few years, you can understand modules. Modules in Drupal are like the apps on a phone. Modules are the source of all the features on our Drupal sites.

We’ve already seen modules in Chapter 5, “Drupal Content Explained,” and Chapter 6, “Drupal Fields Explained.” In Chapter 5, you went to the Modules page on your site and turned on four core modules: Blog, Book, Forum, and Poll. In Chapter 6, you went a step further. By using the FITS workflow, you added modules from Drupal.org to your site.

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In this chapter, you use modules to add many more features. ...

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