Chapter 7. Essential Contributed Modules

Essential Contributed Modules

Adding and enabling a contributed module

Contributed modules are located in either the sites/all/modules directory or a site-specific directory, as discussed in Chapter 2. I generally categorize modules into one of two groups; either it's a module I will use on all future sites or it's a module that will be used on only one site. If I plan to use a contrib module on future sites moving forward, such as a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) HTML editor that will be used on every site I develop, then I add the module to sites/all/modules. However, if it's a site-specific module, such as one custom developed ...

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