admin tools

Admin

I'm not such a fan of the admin module, but admin menu is great.

The devel module is essential for deep digging.

Admin Role is a module to maintain an administrator role which has all available permissions. Configured in the user settings screen. Included in D7 core.

User testing

The masquerade module allows a user with the right permissions to switch users.

Cron

Historically in Drupal 5 & 6, the cron.php was called from a unix cronjob somewhere.

The Poormanscron module allow the cron task to be kicked off automatically without configuring cron. This module is being integrated into Drupal7 core.

So it make sense to useit as standard in Drupal 6 sites too.

After installation & activation of the module, visit admin/settings/site-information and change the interval to get it activated.