Drupal taxonomy changes and eye candy updates (update 1)

We have many new modules but before getting to that, I have added two new Taxonomy Vocabularies (sets of tags). [EDIT: I got rid of the new Section taxonomy because my ideas about it were just too complicated. Since it wasn't used for anything, it is being renamed and repurposed.]

The two new Vocabularies are:

  • Event Type - To describe the type of event that an event is. Examples: meeting, table, speaker (it's easier to spell than colloquium), lan party, and so on. In the far, far future it might become possible to color-coordinate the calendar based on this information.
  • Security - For creating pages that will not be visible to the average user, using the Taxonomy Access Control Module.

I also considered re-enabling the Book module to put Pages into Sections, but we can probably handle sectioning through the tags taxonomy.

The current Tags taxonomy will continue to be used for listing what a post is about. Go nuts with it. Now for the new modules:

The Read More Tweak (ed_readmore) places a "Read More" link after the teaser for those nodes that are split into teaser and body. How many of you didn't even know that there was a "Read More" link on these types of posts? Wow, that's all of you.

Content Profile is supposed to make your user profile pages more extensible. Did you know you had a user profile page? It was hard to tell because there weren't any input fields. Now you can add stuff to your profile by going to Create Content -> Profile and typing away.

The Diff module lets you press a "show diff" button to display differences between revisions of a post. The button is available on the Revisions tab. Of course, it only works on those posts that use revisions and that feature is disabled for non-administrators. Which, when you think about it, is stupid, so I've changed all the content type settings to automatically create revisions when you edit something. The Diff module also gives you a nice "Preview Changes" button when revising a post.

DHTML Menu makes the main menu use Javascript to expand and contract without reloading the page every time you click on something. This makes administration much nicer.

Iconizer gives us the ability to put an icon next to a file link or the items in the administration menu. I haven't looked into how to do this and it does not seem to do anything by default, but we have a potential nifty feature and it doesn't seem to be hurting anything.

Taxonomy Image is supposed to let you show an image next to a taxonomy term. We're not using it yet, but it's another one of those things that is nice to have. Or, it might be nice to have if it worked. It requires GD which is not compiled into the PHP on our server.

I installed Taxonomy Menu in the hope that it would display a menu of taxonomy terms - one would think that from the name and the description - but it just created a link to a list of all nodes that had taxonomy tags. I saw no features or anything useful. I disabled it so we don't confuse it with Taxonomy List.

Taxonomy List does what I wanted Taxonomy Menu to do. It creates a very well hidden menu of taxonomy terms. We need to make that a little more visible.

Tagadelic creates a tag cloud out from a Drupal taxonomy. Like the taxonomy list, this is extremely well hidden.

Taxonomy Access Control Lite allows us to set access controls on nodes based on their taxonomy. Supposedly. I am still looking for the menu option to do anything with it.

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