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Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:14 am
by Simon66
Do you carefully consider each module you install or do you have a go-bag of must-have modules that gets uploaded with every install?
Here's my go-bag... wheels up in 20...
AceEditor
CGExtensions
CGSimpleSmarty
CGSmartImage
CustomGS
FormBuilder
Gallery
GBFilePicker
ListIt2
ListIt2XDefs
SEOTools2
Each of these is guaranteed to be used in every site I create.
What's your list if you have one?
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:55 am
by Wishbone
What I do is have a CMSMS install with all the modules loaded, customized the way I like, summary/detail templates with a bunch of my normal stuff in it, working contact form, some of my common UDTs, GCBs, etc... Also have working examples of CSS/JS menus, content sliders the way I like them, Cufon.. I then do an SQL dump, and zip the entire thing up, and use that for the start of my projects. I then delete what modules, etc, that I don't use.
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:32 pm
by JohnnyB
I do the same as Wishbone and keep a .zip of CMSMS with the default modules, plugins, udt's and settings for each of them, including default templates, etc. I then extract the .zip and import the .sql saved from my default settings. The tricky thing is keeping everything current.
My go-to list of modules for every install:
CGExtensions
CGSmarty
CGSmartImage
Formbuilder
Snippets
Sitemap Made Easy
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 1:18 pm
by faglork
2 modules which havent been listed so far:
Toolbox (the autolightbox feature is great)
Revisions (although still beta, it works well)
cheers,
Alex
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:11 pm
by paulbaker
And another that's not been mentioned: Archiver
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/archiver
Takes 30 seconds to install and saves a copies of every changed Content Page, Global Content Block, Stylesheet, or Template for if (when) an editor messes up.
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:45 pm
by Simon66
Thanks for the replies.
Before I try them out, what are the major differences between Archiver and Revisions?
Has anyone tried both?
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:28 am
by paulbaker
Haven't tried Revisions.
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:27 pm
by paulbaker
Hmmm, thought of 2 more.
Statistics, which gives an easy-to-use interface for clients to get an idea of visitor numbers.
Notifications, so that I get an email when a visitor fails to get in to admin area because of wrong username/password. And an email each time telling me when people successfully login. Gives a good idea of who does (and doesn't) update their sites themselves.
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:44 am
by Simon66
Thanks for those Paul,
I'm definitely adding them to my list.
Re: Do you have a go-to list of modules for every install?
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:19 pm
by pixelita
Great suggestions so far and very timely, as I am in the middle of updating a whitepaper I did a few years back on CMSMS and I need to update the list of modules.
I quite like Owner Manual for use with sites developed for clients.
I also love Wishbone's technique of putting all his pots and pans together and then ditching what he's not going to use for that project. Keeps development time to a minimum.