Building a blog system with drupal
mhd - November 29, 2007 - 14:40
I want to build something like wordpress.com or blogger.com where user sign up and create blogs with drupal. Is there a tutorial or how-to somewhere about this? Thanks.
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Multi user blogging is built into drupal core. All you have to do is
goto adminsiter -> modules (enable blog module)
goto adminsiter -> access control (give permissions for authenticated role to edit own blog) & (give permission to access content)
you now have a mult user blog. When a new user registers, they have a blog.
see: Blog: a blog for every user
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Multi User Blog
Perhaps what he means is to have a True Multi User blog where users have the ability to perhaps use their own domain names, complete control of their themes, adding some ads to their blogs, and soon. So, maybe its more like a Wordpress MU. And if Drupal has modules that can do similar/more things like that, I will gladly to try it.
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The downloads area has a plethora of modules to investigate
multi-domains.module
mysite.module
I've never used wordpress, nor tested the idea you are presenting.
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If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
Multi-User Blog question
Is there any real benefit to having users create blogs on your site ? Wouldn't this put eat up your bandwidth ? What if a blog is writing things you don't like how would you know ?
Is there any SEO boost from having multiple user blogs ?
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If you are creating a community site, one would think its best to have your users interacting and blogs is a way to do so?
The only SEO boost would be more content to spider.
as far as bandwidth is concerned Drupal isn't file based and doesn't serve many files.
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Blog Module
The blog module doesn't really cut it. I have tried WordPress MU and it works great. But i really like Drupal and would love it if the functionality of WordPress MU could be implemented in Drupal.
From my experience the main differences are:
1) WPMU will allow a user to have a completely separate blog. By that I mean a blog name and description that will show at the top of the blog home page without the main website logo (I don't think Drupal can do this).
2) users can create their own categories, menus, navigation, and what ever they would like on the left or right side-bar without affecting the main sites block, categories, navigation or any thing else (and i don't think Drupal does this either) :(
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Drupal Blog can do all of
Drupal Blog can do all of 1.
True, it does not do 2.
regarding point 1 - you
regarding point 1 - you can't hide the main site logo or name though for other blogs, can you?
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I'm currently working on a
I'm currently working on a similar problem... the setup I'm looking for is multiple blogs, with some customization of sidebar and header content. I think I can achieve this using Node Profile, and creating CCK fields for sidebar areas that can be loaded through the theme template file.
The single largest problem I've run into is giving bloggers the permission to approve and edit comments on their own blog, but not on the rest of the site. I've played with User Comment a little, but wasn't too pleased with it. Currently working on using the Node Comment Module, and maybe making modifications to it or modr8.
Seems like a lot of work and
Seems like a lot of work and code hacking :(
My PHP knowledge doesn't qualify me for such tasks!
Good luck for you and please post any finding you think will be helpful for the rest of us.
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