Drupal Module Folder Organization

Organization is important for any Drupal site larger than the simplest of blogs. It is paramount for multi-site installations.

Every site that I create in a Drupal multisite install includes the standard folders: files, modules and themes. The primary focus for organization centers on a sites module folder.

For a more complex single-site install or multi-site Drupal installations, I follow a seemingly popular convention regarding module folders; all of my sites/all/modules folders contain at least these three subfolders:

• custom – for all of the custom modules that I write
• contrib – for all of the contributed modules that I download from Drupal.org
• features – for all of the features (for specific use cases) that I export with the features module

Additionally, I also include the following subfolders in my modules folders on an as needed basis:

• dev-tools – in case I may be taking a site from development to live
• patches – in case I have patched any of my custom modules

Whatever convention you may choose to use, organization is always better and more productive than no organization at all.