Micro Blogging?
turco - April 23, 2008 - 21:45
Is there a module for micro blogging or something like that?
Wordpress has something like that. There are simple and short entries for the blog and they are shown in a block. When you click on it, you can see the details of the entry etc.
I couldn't find another term for it. But probably you know if there is a module like this for Drupal
Teaser?
I believe what you're referring to is called a "teaser" in Drupal (which is actually a journalistic term). Yes, it very much does have that.
Not a teaser, but a microblog like twitter, jaiku or tumbr
Turco - its a nice idea :)
Though I am not a programmer. I definitely know Drupal already has a powerful blog.module - someone needs to play around with that. With little bit of code and theme customization it should be possible. In the existing system you can limit the number of words inside the post to a certain number and it will give you a microblog instantly. You can also fine tune it to number of character, but I guess you will have to check it from the backend. However with just these 4 customizations of blog module the microblogging platform should be possible.
- Limit blog.module character posting to certain no. of characters - there can be customization panel available to the site admin.
- Post user images against each blog - Already available
- Facility to embed media attachment with microposts (needs to be added)
- Convert long urls into tinyurls on the fly - needs to be developed.
Mobkarma
Mobkarma - Software, Hardware & Web Tutorials Blog
is this easy to implement?
hi Mobkarma,
i'm also looking to implement a"microblog" (title, date, 1-4 sentence teaser, "read more" link, etc) as a list of blocks in a column on the homepage. the "read more" link would point to the full blog/story/node entry. an example of something nearly identical to what i want is the "Design News" column seen at this site: http://www.noupe.com/
can i create this using the views and blog modules and a bit of CSS?
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seatte.usa
Views work for this perfectly
When you configure the view just elect to Provide a Block then select Node: Body (w/Handler : Teaser).
BUT! Can you have two teaser settings?
The reason I landed here is because I would like to have two different teaser limits, which I thought I could with Views but I can't figure it out?
Here's what I need to do:
1) Set my default teaser (inside Post Settings) for the view of a blog entry when listed on the front page. I don't want the entire posting here, just the first 75 or so words. I'm using the Length of trimmed Posts" setting under Post Settings (found at content/node-settings) for this.
2) I would like to also create a rotating Block of my blog postings which would display (of course) a shorter teaser than above (about 15 words).
I thought views would have some way to control the amount of teaser text presented but I don't know how (or even if).
Any suggestions?
thx
Cozzi
manual breaks
cozzi, you're right: i've gotten started using the Views module and it certainly seems to be the way for me to go!
re: the 15 word teaser, in searching the forums i found that adding
<!--break-->enables you to manually set the teaser break inside the text field. this works for my situation, but i too would like to know how to change this programmatically for every post!!oh yeah, i also saw something about a "retease" module somewhere, but i didnt investigate it. you might see if that module would be helpful or relevant.
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brendan, fresh-off.com
Creative Direction & Consultation: Web | Print | Brand
http://fresh-off.com
seatte.usa
The manual break code affects all lists
Setting the manual break code in the post will enforce the break just there wherever the post is represented as a teaser, both on the front page and elsewhere, including for standard blocks and views.
So you need another dedicated handling of this when it renders the content for the block. Could do that by using a php snippet to select the content for the block.