By mrcan on

Hello all. I have a question in regards to Drupal. What exactly does the blog give me that vocabularies don't? I guess what I am asking is why I don't create a blog vocabulary and use it to post a blog?

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WhatTheFawk commented

I think you mean Content Type instead of Vocabulary if not you might want to restate your question. I think Blog.module in Drupal is more for letting OTHER Registered Users have blogs on your site, so you can run a MySpace/Community type site.

If you want a blog for yourself on your front page you can do it with any content type just make sure to set publishing options to 'Promote to front page' when you publish. Then your front page is your blog. You could also create a new content type and set it to always be promoted to front page, then use that as your blog.

Blog.module in Drupal also gives you a few preset things that just making a new Content Type would not give you.

Like:
- List of user blogs
- List current users own blog entries from link 'My Blog'
- View of one users blog entries [not on front page]
- View to see most recent blog entries

Besides that not much, its just done for you and has the type of 'Blog' already so its faster to get started.

Links:
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/blog
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/blogapi

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mrcan commented

Thanks, that is what I was looking for. Basicly my site is a set of blogs and that is why I was asking. I have my main links setup to go to different terms to show just those entries.