By mkogel on

I have Drupal 6.1 and just enabled the Blog Module and read the blog documentation on the website. I cannot find however information about how to create categories for blogs. "Navigate through categories" entry shows a link to http://drupal.org/node/20260 page but it gives me "access denied" message (I am logged in btw).

What I am trying to do this:
I want my users to create their blogs (memory corner it is called on my website) under specific categories. How would I achieve that?
thanks in advance

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Fintan Darragh’s picture

Fintan Darragh commented

I don't think entire blogs can be categorised (out of the box), but you can allow users to categorise each of their posts using the Taxonomy module.

You can define categories in Admin > Taxonomy. Define a new vocabulary (e.g. 'Categories') and then add terms to it.

Then, each term will have it's own page thanks to the Taxonomy module, listing all posts with that term (which is near to a fully categorised blog, I suppose?).

-F

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mkogel commented

I am a newbie, please be gentle with me...

I am not a developer so I need idiots guide sometimes

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zie86 commented

First, go to Admin Controls > Categories

Step1 :
Create a vocabulary...name it as Blogs

Step2:
Create new terms inside this vocabulary

for example :
create new terms like General, Computers,Sports, Breaking news,Hobby and......

You should get something like this for Categories
Blogs
-General
-Sports
-Breaking News
-Hobby

Step3:
You;re done on the categories:

Now you have a category called Blogs with terms like General,Sports,Breaking News, Hobby and....

Step4:
Now go to Admin Control > Menu
Create a Menu named Blogs
then, do like Step2 for [create sub-menu under the Menu]

You should get something like this for Menu :
Blogs
-General
-Sports
-Breaking News
-Hobby

For each of the menu, put the path as URL path of the terms inside Blogs(Categories)

Lets say, your url for Generals terms : http://try.com/content/general

How to get the URL for terms in categories?
Click on the terms at categories to get their URL

Step5 :
Now go to Admin Control > Blocks
Choose which part of the layout you want this Blogs to appear [ left-sidebar, right-sidebar,header,footer]

Last:
When you post your blog, just choose the types based on which category you want...

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mkogel commented

I have tried the taxonomy module and loved it. It is working well with my blogs. I did excatly what you described above. I have one vocabulary
then terms
then term items belonging to multiple terms (child and multi parent relation)
- vocabulary
-- term 1
--- term item 1
--- term item 2
-- term 2
--- term item 1
--- term item 2

and so on.

I have created a block menu to link to terms. I might put additional blocks for the term items within the parent term (haven't decided yet)

It works really well so far.

thanks

I am a newbie, please be gentle with me...

I am not a developer so I need idiots guide sometimes

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Stomper commented

Hi,

I was successful at implementing the blog categories that I need. My blog has both guest bloggers and employee bloggers. One of my blog category types is "Official News." This blog category type should only be available for employee bloggers. I want to eliminate the risk of rogue guest bloggers from posting false "Official News"

I have created a general blogger role, given to both guest and employee bloggers.

Is is there some way that I could provide permission to select the "Official News" blog category only to employee bloggers?

Thanks