The Week in Drupal: December 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 21 - 29, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Overview of the Drupal Fivestar Module

Adding a class to nodes based on their view mode

Setup Markdown Filter with Syntax Highlighting in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Batch add terms - A simple module for batch/mass adding taxonomy terms.

Registration Restriction - Allows site admins to restrict user registration by email domain.

OG Node Access Per OG Role - Provide a view permission for group content per OG role.

Views OG cache - Add Views time based cache per group.

Bootstrap menu - Represent Drupal’s multi-level menus in Twitter bootstrap markup.

Google Content Experiments - Enable the usage of Googles Content Experiments.

Backstretch Formatter - Provides a field formatter for jQuery Backstretch - A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element.

The following two modules are entries for the current challenge at ModuleOff.com.

Date link - Gives you a link on the display of most entities (nodes, users, taxonomy terms, and field collections) which lets you update the value of associated date fields to the current time.

Mark Complete - Enables you to click a link on a node display page that will update a date field to the current date. This is done via AJAX so there is no page refresh needed.

Wayne Eaker
December 29, 2012