Boost Your Drupal Site with Flavorful Modules Named After Food
Authored by Nadiia Nykolaichuk.
Drupal modules often come with creative, inspiring names, and some even sound downright delicious. Join us on a culinary adventure through modules inspired by foods, and discover the rich features they can bring to your site! Each tool in this collection is powerful enough to supercharge your website’s capabilities, adding its own unique blend of flavors, nutrients, and zest.
Dishes are best served fresh and hot, so we've handpicked modules that are compatible with Drupal 10, with some even prepared for the latest Drupal 11 release. While tempting names like “Beans and Sauce” caught our attention, we left them off the menu since they only support Drupal 7 — and we would never recommend that you eat expired foods. With Drupal 7’s end of life approaching on January 5, 2025, it’s the perfect time to schedule your website’s upgrade rather than explore outdated options.
Food-inspired Drupal modules: tasty enhancements for your site
Wake up your website’s potential with coffee
Just like a morning cup of coffee can kickstart your day, the Coffee module injects a sense of energy into your admin experiences. The module even has coffee beans as part of its logo, and its effect really resembles bringing a much-needed jolt of caffeine to your workflow. That’s because it enables you to navigate quickly and efficiently through various sections of the site with just a few keystrokes.
Inspired by MacOS’s Alfred and Spotlight search apps, Coffee offers convenient keyboard shortcuts and a user-friendly search bar equipped with an autocomplete feature. Whether you’re adjusting settings, managing content, or accessing configuration pages, simply start typing, and Coffee instantly guides you to the desired section. With Coffee, it’s possible to use keyboard-only navigation.
The Coffee module has been around since Drupal 7, helping website admins and users save time and boost productivity long before the new Drupal admin navigation began its development or even emerged as an idea.
Add an egg for a nourishing hot breakfast
What could be a more popular hot breakfast than a freshly cooked egg? Likewise, you can heat up your Drupal website’s analytics using the Crazy Egg module. It provides easy integration with a heatmap service named respectively — Crazy Egg.
Heatmaps have been great assistants for marketers for quite a while now, providing the visualization of how visitors interact with websites’ pages and in which exact places they focus their interest. Along with heatmaps, the Crazy Egg module provides scrollmaps to see how far users scroll, session recordings for replaying their interactions, and A/B testing to help you refine your content strategy. It’s a full analytics menu designed to ensure your website is always optimized and served hot to your audience!
Crazy Egg stands as a robust tool in a marketer’s toolkit, complementing other analytics giants like Google Analytics. You might also want to check out general but insightful guidelines on automating your marketing workflows.
Harness the sweet strength of honey
Sweet and nutritious, soothing yet energizing — honey is an irresistible addition to any meal. Likewise, the Honeypot module is an effective addition to any Drupal website, that’s why it ranks not far from the top 10 most installed contributed Drupal modules of all time.
Its primary mission is to create an invisible yet powerful layer of protection against spam bots. Check out a secret recipe from our culinary book on how to fight spam bots using Honeypot. Honeypot cleverly lures bots into a sticky trap, working quietly in the background while your legitimate users enjoy a smooth, uninterrupted journey through your site. No need for heavy-handed security measures — Honeypot helps keep your site clean and secure with minimal fuss.
The module employs two anti-spam methods: the Honeypot method and the timestamp method. The first tricks bots into filling out a form field that is invisible to humans, and the second takes into account the fact that humans need time to fill out the form. The module perfectly integrates with Webform and lets you fine-tune which specific types of forms should be protected with Honeypot.
Enrich a balanced diet with healthy fish
When it comes to crafting user-friendly Drupal menus, one tool stands out. Well-known to developers and site builders, it’s a major player in this field — Superfish!
Using the Superfish module, you can create sleek, dynamic menus that help users effortlessly explore your website, much like a delicious and healthy dish that entices diners to enjoy every bite. This module not only serves up multi-level dropdown menus but also ensures they’re responsive to mobile devices, making it a breeze for visitors to find what they’re looking for — and keeping them coming back for more treats like that.
The module gives you plenty of tasty settings. Selecting from styles like coffee, white, blue, and others, choosing vertical, diagonal, or horizontal slide-in effects, and adding arrows or shadows are just a few of the options available. The module widely supports keyboard accessibility, including compatibility with screen readers and RTL (right-to-left) layouts. It is also touch-screen and small-screen compatible.
Sprinkle some breadcrumbs on top
Much like sprinkling breadcrumbs over dishes creates a golden, crispy crust and enhances texture, Drupal websites thrive on these small yet impactful elements with a big purpose Chains of navigation links, widely known in web design as breadcrumbs, make it much easier for website users to identify their current page and quickly navigate to other relevant pages.
One of the most famous Drupal modules for breadcrumb creation is Easy Breadcrumb. In another article, we discussed in detail how it helps create breadcrumbs on a Drupal website along with the general benefits and types of breadcrumbs. However, in older versions, the module generated breadcrumb trails from URL paths out of the box. In newer versions, the recipe became a little more intricate but the dish remains as delicious. A little configuration is needed first. For instance, if you want to derive breadcrumbs from manually entered URL paths (like /cooking/pasta/cheesy-baked-pasta), you’ll need to enable the “Include invalid path aliases as plain-text segments” option. The module also allows you to generate breadcrumbs from menus, taxonomy terms, page titles, and more. Don’t forget to place the Breadcrumb block on your site to display the breadcrumb trail.
There are also a bunch of other modules that offer their own unique ways to create crispy breadcrumbs — Menu Breadcrumb, Current Page Crumb, Custom Breadcrumbs, Context Breadcrumb, Breadcrumb Manager, Taxonomy Path Breadcrumb, and more.
Finish off with some cookies for dessert
Following the tradition of cookies, these small, sweet baked treats are often shared with those you care about. Similarly, cookies on your website help you get to know your audience and create the best experiences for them through content personalization. In the digital world, cookies are text files containing small pieces of data that are used to identify users’ devices. However, before serving these cookies, you need to obtain user consent in compliance with evolving regulations like GDPR. Fortunately, Drupal offers modules that make this process easy.
The COOKiES Consent Management module, also known as COOKiES, ensures your site is GDPR-compliant by letting users decide which cookies they want to accept before they are served. Think of it as a plate of assorted cookies, offering multiple submodules that correctly deal with consent management for specific third-party services like Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Instagram Media, Matomo, and many others. You can configure everything from the style of the consent banner to button labels and cookie expiration dates.
Other Drupal options for offering your website’s visitors these sweet treats include JS Cookie, Cookie Bot, YouTube Cookies, and similar modules.
Final thoughts
Just like a well-balanced meal, adding the right modules to your Drupal website can provide the perfect blend of functionality and creativity. Whether you’re strengthening your navigation with the hearty Superfish, sweetening your security with Honeypot, or heating up your analytics with Crazy Egg, these food-inspired modules bring both flavor and value to your website. Explore, experiment, and reap the benefits they offer as you refine and enhance your digital experience. And remember, your Drupal team is always ready to assist you. Bon appétit!
