How do I edit my Drupal Blog name?

TheInfernoSin - March 10, 2008 - 22:01

Right, well I want to edit my drupal blog name instead of "Username's Blog" I want it to be something else. How can I modify it?

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Use the Locale module from

ananto - March 11, 2008 - 03:26

Use the Locale module from drupal core.
Add new languange of your own, and go to the manage strings to search for "blog" and find term "@username's blog".
Edit this term to whatever you want. The term "@username's" will shown the user's name.

Again, how do you edit the Drupal Blog name?

robominister - May 6, 2008 - 17:07

Okay, I read the response here, and the thought of importing a new language just to modify the title of a blog- well, uh, alarmed me..
My first concern is that I have already installed my Drupal 6.2 and have just got it working properly. I only speak one language, so I am afraid if I import another, the whole site will click over into the new language that I don't speak!

Still, I activated the Locale module, the default language English was already installed.

The page read:

Locale -> Translate Interface ->
Language: English Built in interface: n/a

in it's menu:
Translate interface:
I selected 'Search'

and with the defaults I did a search on the word blog'.
it returned:
'No strings found for your search.'

I specified
search option

Language: English (provided by Drupal)
it returned:
'No strings found for your search.'

I assume this is because I did not load a language and am trying to search on the default?
Fine, next I just tried to "Add new language of your own"

I tried to continue, but the following link did not inspire me with confidence.
http://drupal.org/node/222061

I am now officially stuck.

I also found this:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/blogging/remove-username-from-drupal-blog.s...

But anytime the installation is updated, the modifications are lost and I'd have to go back in to configure this.
Is there some compromise between these methods?

Please, is there a reasonable way to just change the name of an existing users Drupal blog?

Thanks.

Sans Locale Module

monstordh - July 22, 2008 - 23:09

Is there a way to change the Blog name without having to use the Locale module? It puts too much drain on my php memory and crashes Drupal (i have 20mb allotted at present). I'm running 6.3. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You could try this,

Jeff Burnz - July 23, 2008 - 00:22

You could try this, apparently much less load than Locale - http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides

Another recommendation for

Dave Reid - January 18, 2009 - 23:52

Another recommendation for String Overrides. Excellent module.

Too Generic?

starmonkey - October 28, 2009 - 00:36

@name's blog -> "Some Blog Title Here"

What I do want is to change the blog title on a per-user basis, eg

John's Blog -> "John's Blog of Power"
Sue's Blog -> "Sue's Demure Blog Of Bloggery"

Can you do this with string overrides?

incorrect info above for drupal 6.9

ripcloud - January 18, 2009 - 18:17

To change a blog name in 6.9x -
edit this file under your modules directory:
blog.pages.inc

change this line:
drupal_set_title($title = t("@name's blog", array('@name' => $account->name)));

to either another system variable or hardcode it (i did this for my site as it needs only one blog):
drupal_set_title($title = t("Ripcloud Automation Blog"));

Also: you may want to change the rss feed channel name as well in the same file.

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The info is just fine

Jeff Burnz - January 18, 2009 - 23:58

You're telling users that its preferable to hack core files rather than use a very light weight module? You're breaking rule #1 with Drupal - Don't hack core files.

Edit, sorry, made a typo.

string override wildcards/dynamic content?

ripcloud - January 19, 2009 - 16:14

jmburnz:

i do not quite understand this in the help file for string override:
"To find the strings you can actually change, open up a module and look for t() function calls. Places where %, @, or ! are used means that the translation contains dynamic information (such as the node type or title in the above examples), these are not translated while the text around them are."

does this mean that you need to enter a new string override setting for each user blog because the drupal code generates the blog name with an @ replacement - or can you use string override like replace "@user's blog" with "@user_id homepage" or something like this?

Also does string override propogate out to url alias mod?

i could not figure out how to wildcard the string replacement so i hacked it. maybe if you post the string replacement you used it would help as the docs for string replacement are confusing to me as to how to do this w/o hacking core mods. thx

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To find the strings you can

Jeff Burnz - January 19, 2009 - 23:39

To find the strings you can actually change, open up a module and look for t() function calls. Places where %, @, or ! are used means that the translation contains dynamic information (such as the node type or title in the above examples), these are not translated while the text around them are.

Seems fairly self explanatory - use the whole string, the dynamic information will be added as per normal.

Therefore "@name's blog" is the whole string, so you should be able to do something like "@name's kick ass blog", one assumes, try it, been ages since I used this module, I vaguely recall doing something similar.

That works, but how do I change a specific user's blog name?

drupalben - March 13, 2009 - 08:40

Hi,

I want to be able to do the same thing, I tried the string override module and I can change @name's blog to @name's amazing blog etc. (although that unfortunately doesn't work for the teaser link to their blog - any ideas on that?), however I want to be able to change a specific user's blog to something different, e.g.

John's blog should become 'Life in the fast lane'
Jane's blog should become 'A tale of a lonely person'

etc., which string overrides doesn't seem to be able to do.

Any other suggestions?

Cheers,

Ben

I am also looking for a way

rusdvl - March 30, 2009 - 01:31

I am also looking for a way to do the same thing... so if there are sevral blogs, I want to have the option to rename every blog to what ever i want. Anyone know how to do so?

Solution found!

MountainX - April 6, 2009 - 19:50

http://drupal.org/node/231227

There is a 6.x version of authorship module. It works perfect and it DOES work for the teaser link to their blog. :)

how does authorship module change blog name?

mhals - June 24, 2009 - 19:14

I installed authorship and changed 'submitted by' name, but i don't seem to be able to change the blog name. is this possible with authorship module?

thanks,
m

Check out Advanced Blog - I

Road Runner - October 28, 2009 - 11:56

Check out Advanced Blog - I believe that might do the job. I can't recall exactly since I test so many things.