I mentioned in a previous post that Drupal is a modular framework. The idea is that modules should be designed to do one (small) thing well. This is in contrast to the monolithic approach that plugins employ in other content management systems.

For example, if you want to add a slideshow to a WordPress website you can download a single plugin from the WordPress official site. When I visited the WordPress site and searched on slideshow I got over 500 results!

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