Posted by LDMartin1959 on November 16, 2012 at 7:42am
I have D7 installed and I am setting it up but as of yet have no content created. I am going to be using it primarily as a blog. I will be the only user (at least, that is my expectation). I have two questions:
1) if I am going to be the only person blogging on it should I enable and use the blog module? As I read it, the blog module seems to be primarily to allow multiple users to blog. Is there anything I would be missing if I do not use the blog module?
2) right now my expectation is to use the site for a blog. However, I am thinking that at some point in the future I may want to add non-blog articles. Will not using the blog module limit me in this respect?
Thank you in advance.
Comments
1) The description in the
1) The description in the Blog module is:
Though I don't think this means you have to have more than one person blogging. Everything the Blog module does, defining the Blog node type, creating the main Blog page, adding recent post blocks, and RSS feed etc, you can do yourself in the Admin section and using the Views module. Takes longer to do but you have much more control in the long run, in my opinion.
2) The Blog module won't limit you, you can still create different types of content.
TCE, sorry for my delay in
TCE, sorry for my delay in following up (I still haven't figured out how to get an alert when I get a response to a post).
So, essentially the only difference is the "automation" of act icing certain features versus having to do It manually? Do I understand that correctly?
Thank you.
LDMartin1959
The module does the
The module does the following:
Adds a link to the user account page to view recent Blog entries.
Configures the breadcrumb in format Home > Blogs > Username's blog.
Adds user Blog links to page.
Adds action link like "Post new blog entry" Blog main page.
Creates a block "Recent blog posts".
Creates pages:
- containing recent blog entries of a given user
- containing recent blog entries of all users
- containing an RSS feed of recent blog entries of a given user
- containing an RSS feed of recent blog entries of all users
This can be done at a click of a button, but you could also do the above using the Views module (if you can't code), or by a custom module (if you can code). The reason why I'd do everything manually instead of using the module is that if you change your mind in future and want to disable the module, you'd need to create the new blog content type, as well as reattaching any field you had, though this isn't that hard to do. I just think you have more control doing everything manually.... it just depends how much time you want to spend on it I guess.
Thanks for the additional
Thanks for the additional info. I also appreciate the explanation of your reasoning, which I like.
LDMartin1959