I just installed Drupal 6 for a couple projects and I shouldn’t have. I should have installed Drupal 6 in some sort of fart around playground because it is a breeze to install and is gorgeous and intuitive and a brilliant next step. All the good default templates (AKA themes) are ported as well. Unfortunately, some of the nicest modules (AKA plugins) are not available for the Drupal 6 core yet. Very sad. Very very sad. But, all you need to do is wait. The same thing happened when I upgraded to version 2.3 of Wordpress, too. That was a fiasco — huge changes in the MySQL tables broke everything and I had to yank loads of plugins. I am OK because I can work with Drupal 6 with my current installs because my favorite core modules, pathauto and Meta tags, are ported. Unfortunately, most of the cool tools I use on Memes.org are not. So, for now, stick with Drupal 5.7, no matter how tempted you are, especially if you rely heavily on 3rd party modules and plugins.
That said, what I would like to see ported completely ASAP are:
- Akismet
- Community Tags
- Page Title
- Tagadelic
- TinyMCE
- URL List
- Views (thanks, John Berns)*
There are more, but this is off the top of my head. *I think that Views is now out as 6.x-2.0-alpha2, but there are lots of warnings and caveats, so be warned.
Comments (4)
Views. You forgot the views module. It’s another critical module that must be ported before Drupal 6 is viable for use.
Yep — I will add it to my list… I am farting around with Drupal 6 right now.
You are very correct – there are lots of modules not ported yet so I’m waiting for them to be ported before I upgrade my blog to Drupal 6. Your list seems to be very similar to mine, but I think you forget about Comment Notify.
Looks like there’s some progress:
http://akie.nl/2008/03/16/tinymce-for-drupal-6/
Installation
* 1. Place the entire tinymce directory into your the ‘sites/all/modules/tinymce‘ directory.
* 2. Download TinyMCE 2.1 and remember to uncompress the file and make sure the folder is named ‘tinymce‘.
* 3. Place the entire ‘tinymce’ engine folder inside your ‘sites/all/modules/tinymce/‘ directory. So the TinyMCE engine will live in ‘sites/all/modules/tinymce/tinymce/‘
* 4. Copy the folder ‘sites/all/modules/tinymce/plugins/drupalbreak‘ to ‘sites/all/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/drupalbreak‘. This installs a TinyMCE-plugin that can edit Drupal (page)breaks.
* 5. Visit the Drupal ‘modules’ page via Administer > Site building > Modules and enable the TinyMCE-module.
* 6. Visit the Drupal ‘permissions’ page via Administer > User management > Permissions and choose who gets to use TinyMCE
* 7. Visit TinyMCE-settings page, and create a profile. Make sure to expand and fill out the complete form (!!!). The TinyMCE-settings page is found via Administer > Site configuration > TinyMCE
* 8. Done! Now you can edit and create content with the TinyMCE editor.