Stand alone blogs
tkeneipp - June 11, 2008 - 22:09
I understand how the included blog module works in Drupal, but it won't work for me. I need to have several stand alone blogs on my site that will allow selected/multiple users to contribute posts and everyone else to comment. Does anyone have any suggestions?
permissions
The thing to do is a) set up a "blogger" role, and b) in the Access Control permit the blogger role the "create blog" permission. If you leave other roles out of "create blog" permissions then all they can do is make comments.
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Not quite
I already have a role called "contributor" that is the only one that has permission to create blog entries (which is what creates a blog, under that user). What I need to do is create "blog x" and then allow contributors to create new blog posts on that blog and everyone else to comment. I do not want the blogs created under the individuals login.
I could create a user specifically to create each blog and then not use that user for anything else, but that would be a bit inelegant. Any other thoughts?
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sounds to me like you want to create your own blog content type, then set up a taxonomy for it and use the taxonomy access module to control permissions.
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don't know enough
It is obvious that I don't know enough to do it that way. I will have to wait and figure it out latter since I can not see how that would work like a regular blog. Unless I am missing something.
I did it the way you suggested and all the taxonomy did was basically allow me to create a link on the bottom of the post so I could see other pages with the same link/taxonomy attached to it. That worked, but that does not come close to giving me the functionality of a blog software such as Wordpress within my site. I have a feeling that I am going to have to learn how to create a custom module. Yikes!
Any other ideas?
Are each of the stand-alone
Are each of the stand-alone blogs accessed through the same URL? If so, you need a way of separating the content for each blog. I think you could use the taxonomy idea to assign each blog a tag; then assign persmissions based on the tag allowing only a single contributor access to create blog nodes with a given tag.