By zoomee on
I'm interested in making a blogging site like blogger.com AND have the additional CMS things available. Is it possible to do this with Drupal? I've set up a sample website but can't seem to allow additional users to create blogs.....
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Forgot to mention that the
Forgot to mention that the blogging site should be able to allow multiple users to create their own blogs, etc -- just like blogger.com
Perhaps...
I've only peeked at the CVS version, but it looks like you should be able to do what you are talking about with that. Take a look at it. Also, not to send you away from such a wonderful project as Drupal, but LiveJournal is Open Source from what I understand. You can grab their code somewhere on their site and use it...
You just have to configure it...
First you have to enable the blog module:
go to Administer > Modules
Then you have to enable which type of users can have their own blog:
go to Administer > Users > Configure > Permissions
That should do it.
absolutely.
absolutely.
Make sure you create new a new role and set the permissions for that role to have their own blog.
-sp
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If I'm not mistaken, with
If I'm not mistaken, with Blogger.com, one user can own multiple blogs, and other users can me invited to join any blogs too. Drupal allow 1 blog per users, and you can't even configure the blog name. (user name is used)
The organic group module might be closer to the OP's intention, but I think it's still not it.
Hmmm.... you may be right at
Hmmm.... you may be right at that. I hadn't considered that aspect of blogger. Organic Group module may get him close. Good catch chrisada
-sp
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Test site...always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
Naming blogs
Yes, drupal won't be up to it's full blogging potential until blogs can be named an addresses chosen similar to blogger like http://mysite.com/blogname. The module that is supposed to add this breaks the rss feed for blogs. Not sure why it isn't a core feature. Should be part of signup if chosen.
Any idea if this is in the
Any idea if this is in the plan for the next release along with allowing others to post on your own blog?
The permissions only say "Edit Blog"
That doesn't seem to allow you to create your own blog as a user.
If you can 'edit own blog'
If you can 'edit own blog' then you do have a blog. url is //sitename.com/blog/UID#
UID = User ID.
You can use the path module to manually create a user alias to change that.
//sitename.com/blog/jdoe but the XML feed will still be //sitename.com/blog/feed/UID#
The little xml icon on the bottom of my site still works just fine with my aliased path in Drupal 4.5
-sp
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Test site...always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
odd output
when I click on XML I get the following strange page -- any idea?:
"?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?
!DOCTYPE rss (View Source for full doctype...)
- rss version="0.92" xml:base="http://mywebpagesite.com/drupal"
- channel
title drupal test blogs /title
link http://mywebpagesite.com/drupal/index.php?q=blog /link
description /
language en /language
/channel
/rss
That looks right. You need
That looks right. You need to access it with a news reader for it make any sense.
-sp
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Test site...always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
How do I access it with a
How do I access it with a newsreader?
some news readers
If you are using mozilla thunderbird, the latest versions have news aggregation/subscription capabilities built in. Or bloglines is a free, web-based service. 'Course you could just turn on your news aggregator on your Drupal site and try out the subscription that way :)