Releases for Own Term

The Own Term module grew out of the need to create blogs that were more flexible than
the standard blog that comes out of the box with Drupal, particularly:

1. We wanted blogs to have a name different than the user who wrote them.
2. We wanted to include other things than blog nodes in a blog stream, such as polls.
3. We wanted a blog that more than one person could contribute posts to.

After some thought, it occured to us that really, all a blog is is a collection of nodes.
And if you want to collect a bunch of nodes together, then taxonomy seems to be the best
way to start. They've even got taxonomy out of the box.

When you enable ownterm you need to set up a vocabulary which is set up for ownterm by clicking
on the 'Enable Ownterm' checkbox in the vocabulary's edit page, and this should be an empty
vocabulary to start with. After that you need to give at least the 'create and edit term'
permission to authenticated users.

Once this is done, any user with that permission, when they go to their account /user page, will
see a tab allowing them to create a blog. This form, once filled out, will create a new taxonomy
term for them and associate it with them inside of the 'ownterm' table. Once this is done, any
node that they create that is allowed to take a term from the ownterm vocabulary will automatically

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