By 3cwebdev on

I know this is an unusual question: is there anyway two have two authors for a user's blog?

We are looking into setting up individual user blogs (private) so that each user will see their relevant info in their blog, but we will also need a site administrator to post blog entries into their blogs. Is it possible to post a blog entry into another users blog while retaining the poster's id?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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cog.rusty commented

The blog module displays posts based on the author's user account. If the user ID of the admin is retained, then those posts would go to another blog.

So, you probably need to put aside the blog module and simulate it by
- defining a content type for the "blog" posts
- using categories (taxonomy module) for that content type, to distinguish between "blogs"
- using taxonomy listings or the views module to list those "blog" posts by category.

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zilla commented

another thought that jumps to mind - provided you have few blog authors AND you trust them to be honest:

create a custom field set for 'authors' with 'unlimited' as the option (text line) and put these authors into their own user category with permission to access that field group and add themselves...you could then suppress the original author, leave original and also add 'contributing authors' or do something a bit more creative than either of those...

you could also make the field a dropdown in which authors select from a predefined set of authornames such that you can then build pages and views and all of that around the individual authors...

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zilla commented

totally random, saw this and then dug through tracker to read this thread - hopefully you'll see it:
http://drupal.org/project/author_taxonomy

otherwise you need only have the admin log in as the user (or use 'user alias' module) to post as that individual and retain id...
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