By timotool on
I want to see a Drupal sample being used as a blog.
I want to see how people setup Category & Dates (monthly thing).
I want to know if Drupal can come close to Wordpress.
(For now I think wordpress is superior)
Please let me know.
Thank you very much.
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Well I blog using drupal and prefer it over WP, it depends on where you stand and what you're looking for. I'm no expert or amazing blogger so please don't take my blog as the best drupal can do, take a good look around drupal.org you'll find lots of links to different people blogging with drupal.
Mine is a simple blog. I haven't setup my blogs with dates (archive/calendar etc) but have instead choosen to use free-tagging and tag clouds, this is my choice. archives, calendar/views etc are all easily possible within drupal though.
When I started to use drupal I must admit the learning curve was steep and if you wanna quick fix then wordpress may be the solution for you.
If you want something slick, extendable, secure, reliable, sexy, kewl, well supported....and totally blow your mind awesome then stick around here, open your mind and give drupal a try!!
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Stuart Mackenzie - rojojam.com
- slow like snail, furry like panda with the roar of a donkey!
- also trying to learn the dark arts of drupal
My Druapl blog
Hi Tim,
I use Drupal for my Drupal theming blog.
I have a tag cloud (using views, insert view, tagadelic, and tagadelic views), and I also have the ten latest blog posts (done using a view). The other sidebar blocks are just custom blocks I added directly through the admin section.
I don't have a categories section but I'd reckon you could also do this using a view.
For monthly archives there is a monthly archive module - but I haven't used it so I don't know how good it is - and also a book page.
Hope that helps you out,
Laurence.
www.lhmdesign.com - Drupal themes and Drupal theming services.
My Drupal blog - Drupal theming, one post at a time.
LM — Drupal development
This is a Drupal 4.7 used as
This is a Drupal 4.7 used as a blog.
http://www.tabernil.com
I tried wordpress at first and it is so beautiful but I crashed it many times. Drupal is not so easy, not so beautiful unless you work a lot on it, but... it's robust. I would say, comparing CMS's with operating systems that wordpress=windows xp and drupal=linux.
Regards.
Thank you, I'm the original poster.
Holy Crap.. you guys are amazing.
I have a pretty decent understanding on Drupal, but I don't know anything about blogging modules.
1. How do I assign the dates of the post. (for example I want to write a blog with last week's date)
Changing the date
Hi Tim,
you can do this via the admin section.
Log in to your site and then find the post you want to edit (via Administer > Content) and hit the 'edit' tab for it.
Now scroll down until you find the 'Authoring information' section, and you can change the date and time there - just remember to hit submit.
Laurence
www.lhmdesign.com - Drupal themes and Drupal theming services.
My Drupal blog - Drupal theming, one post at a time.
LM — Drupal development
Here's mine
http://arancaytar.ermarian.net.
Most important non-core modules used:
- Akismet (spam filter that has yet to get a false positive/negative on my site)
- Pathauto (gives all my posts /yyyy/mm/dd/this-title URLs)
- DHTML Menus (cuts down enormously on time spent navigating through submenus, since menus expand on the same page without reload).
- Diff (compares different revisions)
- Smileys
- Tagadelic (generates a tag cloud)
(Plus a home-made BBCode engine, more details).
I've been using it for over a year and been very happy - I haven't used WordPress, but I have used Blogger, LiveJournal and most other services and none of them compare.
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Archives were moved out of the core software in 5.x, but are still available as an addon. Here is an example of it in action:
http://arancaytar.ermarian.net/archive
Drupal Blog
I have a completely customized blog at http://www.therealmind.com
The entire site is fully constructive from drupal and I'm very happy with it! :D
Your blog
Looks very nice! For us beginners, can you tell us how to set it up? So many choices . . . .