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By JimK on
This should be simple to do, but I haven't gotten response to earlier request(http://drupal.org/node/63522
). Rant further down the page, but first my immediate request.
I want to have the specific user's blog page, eg "Jim's Blogs" list all of their blog posts to date, in date order (recent to earliest), on one page-- or at least with X number of posts per page and then a pagination set of links. Default currently lists only one post at a time with a series of pagination links, making it awkward to see a whole series of blog posts by a single user over time on a page.
It seems to me that the easiest thing would be to hack to blog.module code to do this, since I think this is where the display for single user is drawn from, but I don't know which lines of code control this. I have searched and searched the Handbook, forums, etc., and can't find where this is referenced.
Drupal Rant
Rants against Drupal seem to get noticed more than questions about usage, but this isn't just a ploy to get noticed, I'm really frustrated about this aspect of Drupal.
This is one of the most frustrating things about Drupal for me. I'm not a coder, but I'm savvy enough to mod things and willing to experiment on my own. But unless a module is already created for something (and doesn't involve changing twenty other things to implement), or you are part of the arcane, advanced coder fraternity, you can't get answers! When I get no answer it's hard to know exactly what this means. I don't know if the thing just passed people by, or I asked a stupid question, or the experienced people go "He should already know this or don't use Drupal...", or nobody knows, or what.
I've reposted some requests three times (http://drupal.org/node/52482, http://drupal.org/node/50520 and finally as a question in the book module handbook page http://drupal.org/node/24989) before giving up.
Another example: I've had a post on getting a page snippet for a book page to print properly, seems a simple thing, forever. I get people from that Drupal node checking out my site to look at what I mean at least 6 times a day (suggesting I'm not the only one in need of this), but I've never had anyone respond to the request! I finally discovered that if I install the "printer friendly" module you can use that to print the snippet page (but not the print friendly link built into the book page module) without printing the php snippet code only. Why is this? I'm not knowledgeable nor have the time to find out. Whatever the book module printer code has, it's missing something. I know this isn't exactly intended as plug and play folks. Some things shouldn't be this hard to find the resource for.
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Skills & Volunteers
Nonsense. If you do not have the right skills, you are dependent on the goodwill and time of others. You lack the skills to customize the php snippet, ok. I don't mind. People here try to help wherever they can, but time & knowledge is limiting.
To demand that others jump to your rescue, that I mind.
I'm sick of the rants.
Goodbye.
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Not true
This is plain false, unless you specifically configured the module to show only one item per page.
Reposting questions is a surefire way to get ignored.
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Politely asked: how do I configure the individual user blog's
Please know, it's not as if I have not spent hours searching for solutions to this before I posted my question.
Politely asked: how do I configure the individual's blog page to show more than one posting? I have searched permissions, content, settings, every administrative configuration available.
Is it possible that the blog.module I have got changed? I'll redownload and upload a fresh blog.module if that seems like the best first step here.
What is one to do if weeks go by and a post has no response? It seems like reposting is the only option. I'm open to any other suggestions.
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Settings
The dropdown for number of posts on the main page on admin/settings/node controls it. I didn't know this 5 minutes ago. I looked at the available settings and experimented.
If you have a post with no answer after weeks, you can respond to your own post to let people know you're still looking for help and that will bump it back up to the top of the tracker.
Michelle
I must be a real dunce here, but...
Michele- Thanks very muchfor the tip, but there is no "node" under admin/settings in my installation. I have 4.6, so don 't know if that makes the difference. If you are looking at 4.6, then maybe this piece was missing from my original installation.
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I'm pretty sure
What Michelle means is admin->content->configure. There's a drop down that says "Number of posts on main page."
This should control how many posts appear on any aggregated content page, including blogs, but you'll have to test to find out, I'm not positive.
I'm on 4.7
What I gave you was a URL, not a path through the menuing system. If you don't see it at www.yourdomain.com/admin/settings/node then it's changed since 4.6. Try the route whenigodeaf gave you.
Michelle
I dunno
Most of the time, when I don't answer a question, it is because I don't have the knowledge of that module, or whatever they're working with. You may be frustrated that no one is answering your question, but I think it would be more frustrating to you if I just replyed with a "I dunno" for every question I read.
The people that are more knowledgeable of other Drupal configurations don't always have the time to be watching the forum for questions. I know it's frustrating to not get an answered question, but this is a volunteer project. You don't have anyone paid to watch the forums and do tech support. And let's face it, tech support isn't the most interesting thing to be doing, so the more knowledgeable users are more likely to be writing code to improve Drupal. For them it's alot more interesting than answering the same "HELP!!! I'VE LOCKED MYSELF OUT OF MY SITE!!!" type posts that have been answered 50,000,000 times before.
Since this is a volunteer project, you are more likely to encounter people doing what they find interesting, and for many, tech support isn't interesting.
Thanks Coreb
I appreciate even your "I dunno." I do, of course, know that Drupal is a volunteer organization. And I don't expect a level of tech support, although I've usually been quite generously helped in most cases here, that I would with a commercial product. Still, it's one of the limiting factors in what some have referred to as the "Drupal gap," ie between beginning site programmers familiar with html, and php experts (which many of us in the former do not want to become). Self installing features as on 4.7 are a step in this direction, making less arcane stuff like sql manipulation unnecessary. But when something this simple (my question) seems so hard to figure out, and I can see it working that way on other sites no less, it's frustrating. My purpose is to make my site work for it's users, not to spend all my time trying to learn about making it work.
Now, I know I'll get some "Well, if you don't like Drupal stop griping and use something else" kind of response from some. But that's the point. I like Drupal. It is the best and most flexible source for building the kind of thing I need for information and community. The ease of use, out of the box set up, getting it to look like you want, etc. can be a chore.
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Drupal for the Complete Idiot- a Yellow Page
I think I'm talking about a "Drupal for the Complete Idiot" kind of guide. You know, those big yellow books on every subject which walk you through as if you know nothing. As I say, I love Drupal. All the outside reviews agree, but say that if you are an end-user rather than developer it's not geared for you. I think this limits the amount of usage of a great thing. Some things are so basic to the developer/programmer types, that they seem like stupid questions (and may be), but I can tell you that if I didn't have Bleu do the install, I would have gone with a base html site, which i knew how to do, and added on Mambo or Joomal as a forum since they assume your an idiot at that point. And I would have lacked the wonderful integration and community feel which drupal creates more than that kind of set up.
Learning how to add modules, especially with the self-install version in 4.7 (I'll have Bleu upgrade us on a test site eventually) is relatively easy. Getting things to work together or appear the way you want more of a mystery. How do you set up a test site anyway??? I know, I'll search the forums/Handbook first, it's probably described out there.
For the love of Drupal,
Jim
PS, mucho thanks for all your help and comments.
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Go for it
I don't know if you were serious about writing a book as that's a major undertaking, but handbook pages are always welcome. More guides aimed at complete beginners may help as there's a lot of people in the same boat as you.
Michelle