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By jstarek on
Hello everyone,
I'm in the final stages of setting up a new Drupal-based website. There are two problems remaining that I could not solve yet:
I want to set up one shared weblog for all users. Drupal's paradigm of giving one blog to each user is not helpful for my site, I'd far prefer the approach taken by Wordpress and similar projects that just tag articles with the author's name. Can this be done in Drupal?
Then, I'd like my front page to have (below some static content) two blocks of blog headlines, side by side: One with the most recent entries any of my users wrote (from the shared blog), the other with headlines from Drupal's RSS aggregator, fetched from different sources. How would I set this up? I'm rather clueless at the moment regarding what blocks I'd need to place and which settings control the behaviour of those blocks.
Many thanks in advance!
Comments
Minor issues
#1: All you're doing is aggregating blog posts; Views can do that. One way would be to tag those users using roles if you want fine control. Note that the standard install aggregates ALL blog postings anyway.
#2: Take a look at the Panels module to control the layout. Alternatively, use either the front page module, or a bit of conditional logic in page.tpl.php, to select an alternative layout. As for the content, if existing blocks don't meet your needs, use Views to create some that do.