Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.
Path redirect is the popular alternative in Drupal
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Simple Tags
Simple Tags add some tools for taxonomies like Terms suggestion, Mass Edit Terms, Auto link Terms, Ajax Autocompletion, Click Terms, Auto terms, Advanced manage term
In Drupal: By default Drupal taxonomies support tags with auto-complete option. Other features like tagcloud and manage tags can be done using the
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.
Similar Entries is the Drupal equivalent module that can do this same task.
Akismet
Akismet is a Wordpress plugin that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
Social plugins
Wordpress comes with the popular social plugins Addtoany and Addthis.
Both of these plugins provide share icons of the popular social bookmarking websites. Add-to-any allows integration with google analytics and Addthis allows customization of the social icons.
Google Analytics for WordPress
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin allows you to track your blog easily and with lots of metadata.
The Google Analytics module for Drupal incorporates all the features of the Wordpress plugin for Drupal.
All in one SEO pack
All in one SEO pack is a Wordpress plugin with a collection of tools to optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines
Drupal has several tested and proven modules available in the Drupal core as well as in the contributed section. The most popular ones are
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a Word press plugin that can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with a simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery Wordpress plugin is a fully integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option. Before I started writing the plugin I studied all the existing image and gallery plugins for WordPress. Some of them are really good and well designed, but the gap I filled was a simple administration system at the back end which can also handle multiple galleries.
Google XML Sitemap
GTranslate
GTranslate is a Wordpress plugin that provides an automatic translation service to translate your web page with Google power. With the ability to translate over 58 available languages your site will be available to more than 98% of Internet users.
GTranslate for Drupal does the same thing in Drupal and has been coded by the same author.
Wordpress is a popular blogging platform and is popular among many bloggers as it was designed more or less for the end users. If you need to setup a good looking blog quickly and without going too deep into the technical stuff, then Wordpress should be the most likely choice for you. Like Wordpress, Drupal is also a Content Management System build around PHP and MySql with almost all the strengths of Wordpress. Nevertheless Drupal is more developer centric and customizable and robust when compared to Wordpress and is gaining popularity very rapidly. We have already done a post on how to upgrade a Drupal site. Due to its huge fanbase and ease of programming, Wordpress has numerous plugins at its disposal. There are Drupal equivalents for most of these. Here is our take on a few popular Wordpress plugins and their equivalents in Drupal.
Discover how Drupal’s Search 404 Module brings up a search on the keywords in the URL and helps in visitor retention
Zyxware is conducting a Drupal workshop in association with COMSOC of College of Engineering Trivandrum and IEEE Student Branch of Younus College of Engineering and Technology. The workshop will be held at Central Computer Facility, College of Engineering Trivandrum on the 20th of August 2011. You can register for the workshop at http://ieeesbcet.org/stac-drupal-workshop/
How to mix public and private folders in a Drupal installation | Creating a private folder in Drupal
By default, Drupal serves all its files publicly via http. This means that any unauthorized user can directly access all the files through a browser by entering its path. This is also true for files which have permissions for them. The solution provided by Drupal, which is to make the entire file system private is resource intensive and can bring down the server. However there is another less costly workaround to this issue. Read on to find out more.
Zyxware, in association with Vidya Academy of Science and Technology(VAST), is conducting a one day workshop on Drupal at VAST, Thrissur on March the 26th, 2011. The workshop will be conducted by Drupal developers, Smruthy Rajendran and Jijimol K. John of Zyxware Technologies. The workshop is targeted at beginners who wish to learn the basics of building a website using Drupal.
Update:The workshop has been rescheduled from the 26th of February to the 26th of March, 2011. The request form remains the same.
We are looking for more Software Engineers to join our fast growing team of Drupal developers. Like earlier we are looking to hire people with 2+ years of experience in PHP/MySQL. Visit Zyxware Careers to get a general feel of the qualities we expect in prospective hires. As always we would love to hire Free Software contributors, so if you have creditable Free Software contributions do mention it in your resume.
Confirmed Full Time Positions Open
We have ported and contributed yet another drupal theme. This time it is jQ, ported from one of the most popular wordpress themes of the same name. You can see the Drupal jQ theme here.
One of the more cried about limitations of Drupal has been the seeming lack of quality themes. Wordpress, another popular CMS framework, has a vibrant design community and therefor has some breathtaking themes. Additionally all themes published on Wordpress.org are GPLed. We have taken one of the recently created wordpress themes - icandy - and have ported this to Drupal and have contributed it to the community. You can see the Drupal icandy theme here
What do you do when you want to delete multiple nodes from a drupal site? You go to admin » content and then delete nodes one by one? No. You go to PhpMyadmin and delete the nodes from the node table?. Absolutely not (don't even think about it). There are a few solutions. There is the Views Bulk Operations module. But there is an easy hack to do this or for that matter bulk node operations.