Blogging with Drupal
bwill - November 5, 2007 - 16:34
I am creating a website for someone who wants to have a personal blog and allow comments. Is the Blog module overkill?
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That is what the blog module
That is what the blog module is for
Actually if it is a single
Actually if it is a single user blog then it is just fine to use the "story" content type for your blog posts. The blog module is only really needed for a multi-user blog situation.
sort of
The blog module itself gives you automatic links to /blog and a built in view for all your posts.
If you go with 'story' or other custom content type (at least in D5) you can use CCK to extend the content type. You will also have to use Views module to create your own view for your blog. So, going with story content type is more work. For a beginner, blog works fine. For people wanting more work, story works fine.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
Beginner? - Why yes I am....
Thanks for the responses. I've worked with other CMS and I have to say Drupal has much more functionality. I have mastered creating my own themes, and am now focusing on content. What is the story content type missing that would have to be filled in by CCK - user comments? I don't understand the need for the views modules either - is it needed to show what has been extended by CCK? I don't mind the work, but if I decide to just use the blog, I suppose that I don't have to give anyone rights to create their own blog. Anyone have some example links of sites using the blog module?
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It's not that it's missing anything. It has the same default node properties (title, body). It's that with Story, you could preconfigure an image field. You could add a node_relationship, in other words extend it somehow.
With blog module, the default list view example.com/blog and example.com/blog/# generates a list teaser view of your blog posts. Story node type does not do this. You will have to either do it manually with php or add views module and create some views to accomplish this. This is a perfectly viable thing to do, just more initial setup for you.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
Here is what I wrote on blogging with Drupal
I wrote two blog entries (yeah, TWO!) on blogging with Drupal (part 2). Blogging with Drupal isn't as out of the box as Wordpress or Typepad. But once it is set up, it is powerful and gives good SEO results too!
This is great!
I put this iron down for a whole and picked up a few others, but now I'm back to ny Drupal blog site. Thanks for the great information!