How to make seperate blogs for users

furryjeff - May 16, 2008 - 01:59

Another newbie post, folks. I've perused through the forums trying to find the answer to a challenge I am having, and couldn't find one that I, at my current skill level, could figure out.

I would like to include several individuals blogs on my site as separate navigational areas. Additionally, I'd like to figure out how to make it so that these individuals can only post to their blogs.

I'm creating a school band site, and am using the Marinelli theme.

I created a primary link called Blogs. I'd like the navigation under this to look like this:

Boyden
Nimtz
Schaub
President
Vice President
Treasurer

With each of these linking to blog pages for each individual that only they can post to.

Is this possible? Any help/advice/direction would be greatly appreciated!

By default each user gets

rizaa - May 16, 2008 - 02:14

By default each user gets his or her own blog.

Now you can make a custom block ( right or left side ) with the blog links you want.

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sepeck - May 16, 2008 - 02:32

enable blog module
create a role that allows create on blog posts
set permissions for role
Set blog post work flow as appropriate.

-Steven Peck
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more help...

furryjeff - May 16, 2008 - 10:26

Thank you both for your replies. This is a wonderful forum.

I think it's the "set blog post word flow as appropriate" that I need the most help with. I don't know how to create a link to an individual users blog.

When someone clicks on "blogs" on the primary menu, this will take them to a page with links to each users blog.

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sepeck - May 16, 2008 - 17:32

that is the equivalent of all the blogs 'front page'. Individual user blogs are /blog/(UID#) where UID = User ID

You can enable path module and alias this as well.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

thanks

furryjeff - May 16, 2008 - 19:28

Got it. Thanks!

 
 

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