Blog: a blog for every user
The blog module allows every registered user to maintain an individual online weblog (commonly known as a blog), often referred to as an online journal or diary. Blogs are made up of individual posts that are time stamped and are typically viewed by date as you would a diary. Blogs often contain links to webpages users have read and/or agree/disagree with.
Note that the blog module is not necessary for a "single-user" blog, that is a site that only has one individual blogging (the most common situation.) Blog module is used to create "multi-user" blog sites, where many different blogs, owned by different users are all running on one site. If you would like more information on creating a single-user blog, here is a Single User Blog recipe to get you started.
The blog module adds a blogs navigation link to the main navigation menu (the link must be enabled), which takes any visitor to a page that displays the most recent blog entries from all the users on the site. The navigation menu has a create content link (which takes you to a page with a link to a submission form) and a my blog link (which displays your blog entries as other people will see them). The blog module also creates a recent blog posts block that can be enabled.
Drupal also provides an RSS 2.0 feed for each blog.
You can
- read your blog via your user profile at my account.
- post a blog at create content >> blog entry.
- administer blog at administer >> settings >> content types >> blog entry.
- administer blog api at administer >> settings >> blogapi.
- enable the "recent blog posts" block at administer >> blocks to show the 10 most recent blog posts.