Creating a Blog in Drupal

Posted by Drupilla on December 7, 2012 at 2:57am

Hi,

I would like to create a blog in my Drupal site. However, the Blog would not be the main feature (hence it won't be in the front page). It will be linked in the Main Menu. Is there a way I can create this? Also, I am looking for a layout like this: http://blog.results.com/

Can someone please help me as to how I can create such a blog?

Thanks

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Posted by VM on December 7, 2012 at 3:13am

using Drupal 6.x at this point is going to cause you pain as its remaining lifetime is short. I suggest you utilize Drupal 7.

you can create your own blog content type, add your fields to it. set it by default not to appear on the front page. use views to create a list of blog entries. link to that views display in the menu.

activate BLOG module. Your

Posted by bawoor on December 7, 2012 at 8:54am

activate BLOG module. Your url blog will be www.domain[dot]com/blog

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Posted by VM on December 7, 2012 at 1:19pm

The above is a way forward however, the blog.module is deprecated in Drupal 8. Building your own blog content types is future proof.

DIY

Posted by mcfilms on December 7, 2012 at 5:29pm

The good thing about creating your OWN blog content type as VM suggests, is that you can add add your own custom fields for photos, location, date, whatever you want. And it all should be upgradable to D8.

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