By the_other_mac on

No, I don't mean just a site that has a blog, and also has a forum....

I'd like to have a (one-person) blog with comments, with all the standard features of Drupals blogs. As it happens, I'd like to have the last few posts appear in full on the front page, regardless of length (as opposed to the more commercial format of displaying teasers or just the first 100 words etc). I've already found the appropriate settings for this, in a test installation.

And then I'd like to have an alternative view of the same information. It would be a forum. All topics would be started by me - my existing blog posts would be the topic, and the comments would be the topic replies. The initial forum view would display the typical forum table of post titles, dates, number of replies, icons for hot topics, etc. At a glance, users could see what discussions are still active.

For an encore, if the site got busier, I'd consider allowing registered users to be able to start their own forum topics, just like traditional forum permissions. However, their topics would not be considered blog posts. They would not appear on the front page, nor in archives, nor... er, trackbacks or other blog features. This last feature would be the icing on the cake.

So, can Drupal and any combination of user modules do this? Can any CMS do this? Does anyone understand what I'm talking about? :D

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SergioGuru’s picture

SergioGuru commented

Hi,

I'm also interested in this and like the freedom to choose (and for client) where he wants to have comments. Blog:CMS (http://blogcms.com) allows that, it's integrated via plugin with PunBB (forum software) so if you install forum and associated plugin to Blog:CMS you can have automatically posts appear as new topics on forum, comments on your blog are not allowed but are in forum and registration is the same for both (if you register on either, same account details are valid for Blog/CMS and for forum).

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drofnar’s picture

drofnar commented

I think this is a good point. Maybe what it highlights is that in fact content could first and foremost be considered as blog content, and then in addition, also be classified as a forumpost, instead of creating different content, you just edit/create a blog, then categorise it with a check box as a blog AND a forumpost.

Maybe this needs to be brought up with regard to the new CCK thing being built, it sounds like a fundamentally different way of looking at content.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

blog with comments turned on seems and organized by taxonomy seems to do everything you want.

As to 'traditional' forum persmissions... no such thing. You are assuming we can read your mind and know what you are talking about. You will need to significantly elaborate because as it stands now, of course Drupal can do this. :)

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boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

Just promote forum posts to the front page, and you're done -- most of the posts (all?) on the front page of Drupal.org are forum posts.

Of course, regular blog posts plus the tracker (see the one for drupal.org here) is a bit like a forum view as well.