Providers query webservices like Facebook, Google+, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc, and import the items returned from API calls as nodes in your Drupal site. There are many advantages to this:
You have complete control over the design of these items. For example, if you have a Twitter widget, Twitter's branding will appear around the widget. If instead you use a Twitter provider then you can create your own templates in Drupal to display tweets however you want.
If a webservice becomes unavailable you will still be able to display content imported from that service.
You won't need to include external Javascripts or make API calls with each page load. This will speed up the page load time on your site.
You can order, filter, and display content in ways that an API may not allow.
This module only acts as an API for other modules to implement. The next section lists providers that have been created.
If you have ever faced the problem of referencing content from the node's body text, you might have already tried various modules, e. g. like Node Embed, LinkIt or Insert. However, if you want to have a "real" reference - and not just the rendered output - like CCK's nodereference, you should have a look at this module.
Nodereference Embed provides a configurable and themeable (pseudo) token that links other assets, such as a node or user. Currently, it can be inserted and interpreted in the node's body text. When viewing the node the token is also rendered by its actual theme output. This functionality is comparable to Wordpress' shortcode API. So, finally what you get with this module is a Macro code in Drupal's token style.
Description ImageCache Builder allows you to create all the imagecache presets you want for a picture directly when its content is created or saved. Imagecache creates a preset of an image only when that image is called, but sometimes we need to call the pictures with different paths before that imagecache has created them (for example using CDN).
This module solves the problem. This module uses an administration page to set which imagecache presets create in backend for the relative image fields.
Features
- Creates the presets when a node is saved or updated.
- Allows to selects which preset you want to create automatically for each image field.
- Prevents broken images not created yet by imagecache.