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Top 8 Social Media Modules for Drupal Websites

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

A few years ago doing this task meant a lot of custom coding, therefore most of the larger companies and organizations love Drupal. 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 that provides a place for users to post and share stories and a module block provides basic information about the social media group. Administrators can also enable additional functions on groups, such as deciding whether the social group should be selective or not. With Organic Groups on the website, the possibilities are endless. You can easily configure 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 universities and relationship types such as mutual or one-way. This Drupal module is also included with a group of sub-modules that allows the administrator to configure notifications, invitations, and messages.

3. Notice module:

Invite 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 accumulate points for actions such as 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. Flags module:

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

6. Heartbeat:

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

7. Easy social

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

8. Activity flow module:

This Drupal module allows you to create a live feed using your activities on different social media websites such as 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.