Date Range field, Moderation States, Outside In, Place Block

With the release of Drupal 8, the core blocks system is now a powerful publishing system for content in sidebars or landing pages. Blocks have types, fields, revisions and many other benefits now that they are full Entities. If you are a coder, you'll be happy to know that these block types can also be created and extended using OOP techniques.

If you still use Drupal 7, have no fear! The Drupal 8 Block improvements are largely a port of the Bean module (Block Entities Aren't Nodes). Many of the techniques outlined in this session will be applicable to Drupal 7 with Beans.

Field as Block provides an easy way to display one or more fields of the current node in a block. This module aims to be a light weight alternative to modules like Panels and Display Suite, or using Views to define a block which only retrieves one field.

This module allows you to inject blocks as menu items. It facilitates easier use of JavaScript based dropdowns and panel like navigation. Most users employ this module to create dropdown panels using other modules to handle the dropdowns and this module to inject the blocks as needed.

This module uses the amazing Flickr API module to provide Bean integration. With this module, users can easily create blocks that fetch Flickr images. Currently it provides two ways to search (per block):

Search on a given string
This can be used to show a blocks photos mentioning the client name, for instance.

Search on terms used in the given entity
This can be used to fetch related photos. Suppose you have vocabulary Section (eg: Football). When a node is tagged with Football, you can have a block in the sidebar showing Football photos.