By finlaycm on

I have to say that my experience with drupal is very limited. However, I've taken the task of creating a site to host all our school's blogs, I like the way it was developed for the New York Observer and would like to see if anybody can give me some input on how it was created.

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vm commented

see: http://drupal.org/node/141187

where the developers outlined how they built the site.

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finlaycm commented

Thank you for your response. I went over that post but they concentrate more on the articles that on the particulars of the multi-blog site. I'd like to know how they link a post to the right Blog?, are they using different node types, taxonomy?, how do they group them in the little boxes in the front page (http://www.observer.com/blogs). Thank you

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nevets commented

If each blog has a different author Drupal does that out of the box. Enable the blog module, create a role for people who can blog and assign that role to users who can blog.

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finlaycm commented

In my site, one user can have multiple blogs. I don't want to use the blog module because it is too restrictive. I want to set up as many blogs as I want, I want to have them all in the front page the same way the New York Observer has them. I want to be able to go to the one specific blog page and create a blog post from there that will only be linked to that blog or see all the other posts and comments related to that post. (I've tried creating two types of nodes, Blog Name and Blog post, and setting up Taxonomy to link the blog post to the Blog name, but I don't like it like that because then the blog posts are all mixed up, instead of having a dedicated page for each of the posts)

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vm commented

Create a content type for each type of blog.
create a vocabulary that works with each content type

you can then use views.module to build a query and create the lists any way you see fit.

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silvanasono commented

Thanks VeryMisunderstood!
Your idea worked fine.
I created a new vocabulary called "Blog Types" and assigned to it terms that correspond to the different blogs I want to create (Letters, Advices, etc).
Then I created a view for every blog page.
And then, when I submit my blog, I just decide the category I want it to belong to.

Sometimes, you are not "misunderstood" ;)

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gosomewhere.eu commented

So I got the idea behind this taxonomy thing. But I am really new to this drupal thing, so I don't seem to be able to create this view thing. Could you, or some nice soul tell me where to get the information (and where is understandable) ou just explain me?

Thank you so much

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WorldFallz commented

views is a module: http://drupal.org/project/views

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gosomewhere.eu commented

Thanks a lot! I guess it really pays off to do some reading first :)

I managed to do the thing. Still need to make some changes and understand all the parts of the view, but thanks for the help.

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gosomewhere.eu commented

I am back again. So I did this multiple blog with views system. Everything is grat, but the problem is that under each post in the view it shows a link to the user blog just by the commenting link.
Since the same user posts for diferent blogs, I don't want that people can check the blog of the user straight away, since it won't make much of a sense.
And it is also annoying to have 10 times in a page "go to blog"

I tried to transform the node.tpl.php file into node-blog.tpl.php and edit it, but even though I can find there all the other parameters of the blog entry, somehow the link to the user blog is "connected" to the commenting link, so when I it, it also takes away the possibility to comment.

I would imagine that there is some easy way to separate the 2 arguments and edit only one of them.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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WorldFallz commented

see http://www.nicklewis.org/node/817 and http://11heavens.com/quick-edit-and-delete-links-for-the-Administrator

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tjmoyer commented

You might also try editing your view. The information and links shown in your view can be removed from being displayed without removing those fields from the view (you may need to have the field for use with an argument of filters, but not need to show the info to the viewer). Just click on the field you don't want to display in your view and select the "Exclude from display" checkbox.

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eastcn commented

Founds a type to do is blog, using "relativity.module" confirmed the blog-weblog relations, to this realizes many blog.

Perhaps may try.

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