Top 8 Social Media Modules for Drupal Websites

According to 2017 research, Facebook has 1.94 million active users who share about 4.75 billion pieces of content daily. While posting content for your website or blog posts may seem uncontrollable, turn your website or blog into a sharing social media community.

A few years ago, doing this task meant a lot of custom coding, which is why Drupal is loved by most businesses and larger organizations. With the availability of Drupal modules, you can easily manage your website’s social media channels with minimal custom coding.

Here are some of the best Drupal social media modules that will take your website or blog to the next level:

1.Organic Groups Module:

With the help of these modules, users can easily create and manage their own social media groups. Each group has its home page which provides a place for users to post and share the stories and a module block provides basic information about the social media group. Admins can also enable additional features on groups, such as deciding whether or not the social group should be selective. With Organic Groups on the website, the possibilities are endless. You can easily configure the layout, membership, restrictions, and much more.

2. User Relations Module:

The user relationship modules in Drupal allow site administrators to create and define user types such as family, friends, or college, and relationship types such as mutual or one-way. This Drupal module also includes a group of submodules that allow the administrator to configure notifications, invitations, and messages.

3. Request module:

Invite The Drupal Module encourages current users to invite their colleges, friends, and family to join their group on the social networking site. This module works with the user relationship module.

4. User points module:

The user points module allows users to collect points for actions like posting nodes, moderating, sharing an image, commenting, and more. The Drupal site administrator can use these points to upgrade or exchange roles for goods or incentives on their website.

5. Flag module:

The Flag Module works with the Flag Friend submodule. Using the Flag API, Flag friend provides a simple or two-way relationship type that can share messages and notifications to the recipient of the friend request, providing information about the request’s acceptance.

6. Heartbeat:

This module can be used to display user activities on the website. Like the Activity Drupal module, Heartbeat is an API for logging activity that can be structured to display in a custom activity stream.

7. EasySocial

Easy Social is a free social sharing module that allows you to add a share button to your website. By default, this module includes widgets for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn, but you can easily customize it and add other social networking websites.

8. Activity Flow Module:

This Drupal module allows you to create a live stream using your activities on different social media websites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Stumble upon and more. You can easily integrate this Drupal module with any of the websites that publish RSS feeds giving you the possibility of further customization.