# Varbase Core Provides core components required by other features. ## Varbase Core Module {% hint style="info" %} Varbase core features are bundled through the **Varbase Core** module.\ GitHub: \ Drupal.org: After building a project using the `varbase-project` template, you can see the code of the **Varbase Core** module in: {% endhint %} ``` project_directory |-- docroot |-- modules |-- contrib |-- varbase_core ``` Brings in the following core and contributed modules to your site: | Module | Purpose | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |

User

(in Drupal core)

| Manages the user registration and login system. | |

Node

(in Drupal core)

| Allows content to be submitted to the site and displayed on pages. | |

Taxonomy

(in Drupal core)

| Enables the categorization of content. | |

Text

(in Drupal core)

| Defines simple text field types. | |

Views

(in Drupal core)

| Create customized lists and queries from your database. | |

Block

(in Drupal core)

| Controls the visual building blocks a page is constructed with. Blocks are boxes of content rendered into an area, or region, of a web page. | |

Block Content

(in Drupal core)

| Allows the creation of custom blocks and block types. | |

Configuration Manager

(in Drupal core)

| Allows administrators to import and export configuration changes. | | [**Configuration Update Manager**](https://www.drupal.org/project/config_update) | Provides basic revert and update functionality for other modules | | [**Config Ignore**](https://www.drupal.org/project/config_ignore) | Ignore certain configuration during import | |

Datetime

(in Drupal core)

| Defines datetime form elements and a datetime field type. | |

File

(in Drupal core)

| Defines a field type for files. | |

Image

(in Drupal core)

| Defines a field type for image media and provides display configuration tools. | |

Options

(in Drupal core)

| Defines selection, check box and radio button widgets for text and numeric fields. | |

Path

(in Drupal core)

| Allows users to rename URLs. | |

Layout Discovery

(in Drupal core)

| Provides a way for modules or themes to register layouts. | | [**Entity API**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity) | Provides expanded entity APIs, which will be moved to Drupal core one day. | | [**Chaos Tool Suite (ctools)**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools) | Provides a number of utility and helper APIs for Drupal developers and site builders. | | [**Chaos Tools Blocks**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools) | Provides improvements to blocks that will one day be added to Drupal core. | | [**Chaos Tools Views**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools) | A set of improvements to the core Views code that allows for greater control over Blocks. | | [**Token**](https://www.drupal.org/project/token) | Provides a user interface for the Token API and some missing core tokens. | | [**Display Suite**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ds) | Extend the display options for every entity type. | | [**Better Exposed Filters**](https://www.drupal.org/project/better_exposed_filters) | Provides advanced options (e.g. links, checkboxes, or other widgets) to exposed Views elements. | | [**Field Group**](https://www.drupal.org/project/field_group) | Provides the ability to group your fields on both form and display. | | [**Smart Trim**](https://www.drupal.org/project/smart_trim) | Provides a more robust alternative to "summary or trimmed" textfield format | | [**Advanced Text Formatter**](https://www.drupal.org/project/advanced_text_formatter) | Provides an additional formatter for text field, text area and text format. | | [**Block Class**](https://www.drupal.org/project/block_class) | Allows assigning the classes to Blocks. | |

Contextual Links

(in Drupal core)

| Provides contextual links to directly access tasks related to page elements. | | [**Diff**](https://www.drupal.org/project/diff) | Shows changes between content revisions. | | [**External Links**](https://www.drupal.org/project/extlink) | Modify behavior and appearance of external links. | |

Internal Dynamic Page Cache

(in Drupal core)

| Caches pages, including those with dynamic content, for all users. | |

BigPipe

(in Drupal core)

| Sends pages using the BigPipe technique that allows browsers to show them much faster. | |

Menu UI

(in Drupal core)

| Allows administrators to customize the site navigation menu. | |

Custom Menu Links

(in Drupal core)

| Allows users to create menu links. | |

Filter

(in Drupal core)

| Filters content in preparation for display. | | [**Token Filter**](https://www.drupal.org/project/token_filter) | Allows token values to be used as filters. | |

Field UI

(in Drupal core)

| Provides a user interface for the Field module. | |

Help

(in Drupal core)

| Manages the display of online help. | |

Internal Page Cache

(in Drupal core)

| Caches pages for anonymous users and can be used when external page cache is not available. | |

Telephone

(in Drupal core)

| Defines a field type for telephone numbers. | | [**Bootstrap Layouts**](https://www.drupal.org/project/bootstrap_layouts) | Generate layouts with Bootstrap grid system. | | [**Views Bootstrap**](https://www.drupal.org/project/views_bootstrap) | Allows for different styles to be used in views to work with Bootstrap 4 components. | | [**Display Suite Extras**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ds) | Contains additional features for Display Suite. | | [**Page Manager**](https://www.drupal.org/project/page_manager) | Provides a way to place blocks on a custom page. | | [**Page Manager UI**](https://www.drupal.org/project/page_manager) | Provides a simple UI for Page Manager. | | [**Panels**](https://www.drupal.org/project/panels) | Core Panels display functions; provides no external UI, at least one other Panels module should be enabled. | | [**Panels IPE**](https://www.drupal.org/project/panels) | Panels In-place editor. | | [**Menu Block**](https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_block) | Provides configurable blocks of menu links. | | [**Views Infinite Scroll**](https://www.drupal.org/project/views_infinite_scroll) | A pager which allows an infinite scroll effect for views. | | [**Entity Usage**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_usage) | Track usage of entities referenced by other entities. | | [**Entityqueue**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entityqueue) | Allows users to collect entities in arbitrarily ordered lists. | | [**Entityqueue Form Widget**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entityqueue_form_widget) | Populate a form element in the sidebar of node's add and edit pages to allow editors to add content to entityqueues directly from add/edit forms. | | [**Inline Entity Form**](https://www.drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form) | Provides a widget for inline management (creation, modification, removal) of referenced entities. | |

Inline Form Errors

(in Drupal core)

| Places error messages adjacent to form inputs, for improved usability and accessibility. | | [**Persistent Login**](https://www.drupal.org/project/persistent_login) | Provides a "Remember Me" feature on the login form. | | [**Ultimate Cron**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ultimate_cron) | Cron handling for Drupal. Runs cron jobs individually in parallel using configurable rules, pool management and load balancing. | | [**Content locking (anti-concurrent editing)**](https://www.drupal.org/project/content_lock) | Prevents multiple users from trying to edit a content entity simultaneously to prevent edit conflicts. | | [**Content Lock Timeout**](https://www.drupal.org/project/content_lock) | Provides mechanisms for automatically unlocking nodes that have been locked for a certain length of time. | | [**Node Edit Protection**](https://www.drupal.org/project/node_edit_protection) | Protect the user against navigating away from a node edit form before saving their changes. | | [**Mail System**](https://www.drupal.org/project/mailsystem) | Provides a user interface for per-module and site-wide mail\_system selection. | | [**Maxlength**](https://www.drupal.org/project/maxlength) | Limit the number of characters in textfields and textareas and shows the amount of characters left. | | [**Menu Position**](https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_position) | Customize menu position of nodes depending on their content type, associated terms and others conditions. | | [**Autocomplete Deluxe**](https://www.drupal.org/project/autocomplete_deluxe) | Enhanced autocomplete using Jquery UI autocomplete. | | [**Link Attributes widget**](https://www.drupal.org/project/link_attributes) | Provides a widget to allow settings of link attributes for menu links. | | [**Rabbit Hole**](https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbit_hole) | Basic functionality that is shared among the different Rabbit Hole modules. | | [**Rabbit Hole nodes**](https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbit_hole) | Adds Rabbit Hole functionality for nodes. | | [**Rabbit Hole taxonomy**](https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbit_hole) | Adds Rabbit Hole functionality for taxonomy. | | [**Login Destination**](https://www.drupal.org/project/login_destination) | Customizes the destination the user is redirected to after login/logout/registration/one-time login. | | [**Better Login**](https://www.drupal.org/project/betterlogin) | Make the login screens better | | [**Email Registration**](https://www.drupal.org/project/email_registration) | Allows users to register with an email address as their username. | | [**jQuery UI Accordion**](https://www.drupal.org/project/jquery_ui_accordion) | Provides jQuery UI Accordion library. | | [**Editoria11y Accessibility Checker**](https://www.drupal.org/project/editoria11y) | Checks for accessibility in page content. | ## Sub modules The following sub modules are packaged in the **Varbase Core** module {% content-ref url="varbase-core/varbase-admin" %} [varbase-admin](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/core-components/varbase-core/varbase-admin) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="varbase-core/varbase-default-content" %} [varbase-default-content](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/core-components/varbase-core/varbase-default-content) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="../development-components/varbase-development" %} [varbase-development](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/development-components/varbase-development) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="../optional-components/varbase-internationalization" %} [varbase-internationalization](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/optional-components/varbase-internationalization) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="varbase-core/varbase-page" %} [varbase-page](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/core-components/varbase-core/varbase-page) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="varbase-core/varbase-security" %} [varbase-security](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/core-components/varbase-core/varbase-security) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="varbase-core/varbase-tour" %} [varbase-tour](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/core-components/varbase-core/varbase-tour) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="varbase-core/varbase-webform" %} [varbase-webform](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/core-components/varbase-core/varbase-webform) {% endcontent-ref %} {% content-ref url="../development-components/varbase-updates-helper" %} [varbase-updates-helper](https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/9.1.x/developers/understanding-varbase/development-components/varbase-updates-helper) {% endcontent-ref %}