By bigsend on

I am intrigued by the idea of starting a blogging community within my site. That is, have someone go to
http://bigsendworld.com/blogs/user-name or something.

I want authors to specify their own themes for all nodes they authored. I'd like them to specify their own blocks (unless the administrator requires a block to be present), etc.

Almost like blogger, but it will be their own site.

Oh, and I'd also like to institute a way for them to export their blog out of my site and into another Drupal or Wordpress, should they decide to start their own blog.

What module(s) would you recommend for this? I do have pathauto and its helping out great, but I know its not enough.

-Thanks
Bigsend
http://bigsendworld.com
http://mydrupaladventures.com

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Comments

KahneFan’s picture

KahneFan commented

For themes you would want...

http://drupal.org/project/blogtheme

Whatever a user selects as their theme, is displayed as their blog & profile theme.

bigsend’s picture

bigsend commented

That theme module seems pretty good, but is there a module that builds upon this or has more features?

I'd like bloggers to have their own links, blogroll, and blocks. Also, this Module allows a contributor to select a general theme. So, for example, if they chose Garland and another contributor chose Garland, then their pages would be exactly the same even if both want different links there.....

The other modules have been fantastic, thanks a lot for sharing this!

-Thanks
BigSend
http://bigsendworld.com
http://mydrupaladventures.com

andrus_k’s picture

andrus_k commented

You can achieve this functionality by using several modules. Please, explore the following.

http://drupal.org/project/blogger
http://drupal.org/project/pathauto (you can use it to adjust paths to individual blogs).

I guess you can also have a look at http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile (for better user profiles).

And yes, take a look at blog theme.

On our site, http://www.westki.info, we use the above mentioned modules for user blogs. We also use imagefield+imagecache modules so that bloggers could upload images.