Rename Blog
blavish - July 3, 2007 - 07:25
I have looked at every post on drupal.org about renaming the blog. I have managed to rename the blog at some places but there is still blog in the menu and other places. Does anybody know how to change the My Blog in the menu wich is locked, and change it to something else exept my blog?
Thank you.
Easiest way I can think of
Easiest way I can think of is making your own menu and putting a link there to the blog page, then you can call it whatever you want.
One way is - Enable the
One way is
- Enable the locale module (which is for translations)
- In "/admin/settings/locale", add a new language called, for example, "Custom English"
- Make this new language the default. Since you have not imported any translations all the menus etc will still appear in English, but now you can search and "translate" the strings you want changed manually.
- Click on the "Manage strings" tab, search for all strings containing "blog" and "Blog" (it is case sensitive) and "translate" them to what you want. But the strings can be many (in "help" etc)
There is also the bloginfo module (http://drupal.org/project/bloginfo) which I have not tried. It adds a title and description to a blog, like in blogger.com.
Thank you!
This method worked really good for my application. The client did not want to use the word Blog but wanted to call everything Journal.
Only 1 way for Drupal 6.x?
I am just starting out with Drupal, with the objective is building a site that features 2 blogs for 2 bloggers, but I want to rename the blogs as "reports" or "posts" and by subject category rather than blogger. The objective would be to change "Bob's Blog" and "Betty's Blog" to "Crazy Posts" and "Silly Posts."
It looks like the Blog Information module (http://drupal.org/project/bloginfo) isn't being adapted to Drupal 6.x. Is the translation method described above the only way to change the blog names, or am I missing something? Is there another module that might do the job for me?
One way is to forget about
One way is to forget about the blog module and create your own blog-like views, with the help of some additional modules.
I think the simplest method for this is to create a content type for each "blog", name these content types "Crazy Posts" and "Silly Posts", and give users permission to create/edit content of the type(s) you want, in admin/user/permissions (Drupal 6) or in admin/user/access (Drupal 5).
Then to get blog-like pages you can use the views module (http://drupal.org/project/views) to create a view for each content type and/or user. Or you can use the simpler http://drupal.org/project/get_content_type module.
There are more ways to do something similar using categories and installing some access control module based on taxonomy (and optionally views). An advantage of using categories is that you can have posts appear in many "blog pages" at the same time, but the previous method is simpler because access control based on content types already exists in core Drupal.
Blog-renaming problem solved
Thanks for the advice. I downloaded Get Content Type, and it appears to be doing its job: 2 report categories set up and running. I tried to set up a menu for both content types without having created content of both types, and that didn't work. Once I had seeded each content type with a posting, I was able to populate the menu.
Thanks - an exellent and elegant solution
I found your locale solution perfect for my needs; the only bit of further advice would be that once you have searched for your phrase, search again and again, as the search engine seemed not to pick everything up every time...
That happens because the
That happens because the database table with the strings is populated gradually as you visit pages, so that it can include strings from modules.
In the meanwhile, I have found that the http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides module can do the same thing in a lighter and faster way, except if you need the locale module anyway for other purposes (like I do).