By graemem5 on

So I'm still quite new to Drupal so I may be missing something obvious, but currently modules are just really getting on my nerves so it's time to vent.

I've spent today trying to import content from Wordpress - should be simple enough, I've found the modules so just need to install them. Firstly, why can my installation not download the modules and dependencies on it's own? I install the first wordpress-import module only to find it requires cTools, that's fine, I have it downloaded already so simply upload it. Now it's installed... hang on, what do i do now?

The majority of modules don't seem to have documentation, or if they do it's well hidden. Wordpress Import comes with a handy help section that inserts it'self into the help section of my installation... Wait, no it doesn't - It has a help link but all it's inserted is a hefty mysql error. So I have no idea where to find the interface for this module, it has no configure link, nothing is appearing in the configuration/structure/add content sections... So where do I start?

I install another module, Wordpress migrate. Download this, and it requires Migrate... Fair enough, It said that in the description and I missed it. Installed Migrate (By the way, having to download and upload all of these modules takes a fair amount of time on a slow connection). Now I'm told it requires Features... Installed that, then the module list has changed and no longer requires Features. Very confused now, I shrug it off and try get started with the module. Same problem, no interface anywhere, no hint of where to start in the description, no documentation to be found.

It's very possibly I'm missing some glaringly obvious things, but I do consider myself to be fairly savvy when it comes to this type of thing and if I'm missing it then surely I'm not the only one! (I hope).

Anyway, after a totally unproductive morning of messing around with Drupal modules I felt I needed to vent about the awkwardness of it all.

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