By rolandpish on

Hi.
I'm in the process of learning drupal, so at this time I consider myself a newbie.
In my site I will have four primary links and each one of them must be a blog. Is it possible for Drupal 6 to setup these four blogs and make my user (I'm the administrator) manage these blogs?

Or just making four "story" entries would achieve this?

Thanks in advance

Regards

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web2sigma’s picture

web2sigma commented

You can use taxonomy to categorize your blogs. Then link your menus to the taxonomy pages.

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rolandpish commented

Thanks web2sigma!
I'm going to do it and if I get stuck I'll come back here.

Regards

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drcurio commented

Hi there,

Have you been able to set up the four different blogs? I'm trying to do the same thing but can't get it to work...:(

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rolandpish commented

Hi drcurio.
I'm not expert in Drupal but I managed to do this very simple.
First I created a vocabulary named "Blog section" (made it required and applying only for blog entry), and created 4 terms for it: Category1, Category2, Category3, Category4.
Then, I created 4 primary links, each one with the href pointed to the path for each term.

When I add a new blog entry, now Drupal forces me to select one of the categories; this way, the blog posts will be categorized and when I click the primary link for Category1 only the blog posts for that category will show up.

What I'm trying to achieve right now (for my specific needs) is to avoid going to the "blog root page" (or redirecting it to the home page) in order to have the four categories completely separated. Is there any "official" suggestion for this? I'm trying to hard-code it but I would like to know if there's a simpler way to do it.

Regards

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drcurio commented

Hi rolandpish,

I'm a complete newbie and despite having read the handbooks several times I still couldn't get the menu/node/content to behave...

Two questions for you:

1. Can I created four vocabularies (Category1, 2, 3, 4) instead of four terms? Because I'm hoping to further categorize my main category, which I thought I would need to use terms? For example, can I create the following four vocabularies (news, music, movies, youtube), and then under music create some terms such as "pop", "rock" and "dance"?

2. Can you explain how did you create "4 primary links, each one with the href pointed to the path for each term"?
When I go to /admin/build/menu and click on "primary links" and then "add item", I figure the Menu link title would be "music" etc., but what should I give as its path? Path to what exactly? I tried /music, /taxonomy/music but none of them works...

Thanks!!

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rolandpish commented

Hi drcurio.

1. Since vocabularies can be used for any type of content in your site, I'd rather create one vocabulary for my blog categories, then create the "parent" 4 terms and you can add pop,rock,dance terms with "music" as their parent term. Also remember that if you use 4 vocabularies, when you add a blog entry, 4 separate dropdown box fields (4 vocabularies) will appear on the form giving the wrong impression that a blog entry can belong to one or more terms (this can actually make sense for other sites, but as far as I can understand for your post this might not be what you want). In my site, the blog entries must belong to one and only one term.

Blog category (this is the vocabulary)
--News
--Music
----Pop
----Rock
----Dance
--Youtube
--Movies

2. First you need to install and enable pathauto module along with its dependencies (mentioned in its project page):

http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

This will create a path automatically for your content whenever you create it (based on the automated alias configuration you choose after installing and enabling pathauto). In my case, the path alias for the terms resulted as follows:
category/blog-category/category1 (for taxonomy/term/7)
category/blog-category/category2 (for taxonomy/term/5)
category/blog-category/category3 (for taxonomy/term/1)
category/blog-category/category4 (for taxonomy/term/8)
This way when I create a primary link, the path for Category 1 blog will be: category/blog-category/category1 and so on.

You can list the url alias anytime by going to: admin/build/path

Hope this helps.
Regards.

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paulmacp commented

How would you create an independent RSS feed for each category?

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wordy_wxman commented

As a follow up, I'd like to know the answer too. I can't seem to find it and the two blogs with two different user names (both relate to me, the administrator) don't display separate RSS feeds.

Thanks.

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wordy_wxman commented

I found the answer, at least in my case.

I have two blogs by different user names but both written by me. They appear on a Drupal page accessed from a menu on the index page of my Web site. The index page for the Web site, however, is an access point for meteorological information. So, the directory looks like this:

/home/wxman_michael/Web/drupal-6.19/*.*

It's served by an Apache server and all runs under Linux (CentOS 5.4).

I added each of the modules suggested (above) then realized what I wanted was to rearrange the index.html page for the site, placing the RSS logo beside each of the Menu Items. The index html then looks like:

Meteorological Wonder Dog Weather
Only local images are allowed.
Clase de Solfeo Only local images are allowed. Clase de Solfeo" width="82" height="32">

The first reference is a link to the blog, the second a link to the RSS feed.

Michael Allen

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rolandpish commented

I'm also trying to figure out this and researching on how to do it.

wordy_wxman’s picture

wordy_wxman commented

I continue to read references regarding separate RSS feeds but there seems to be an issue for several of us.

At least I've got company!

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Stephen Winters commented

I also have been wanting multiple blogs for one user (the Admin). Having a Taxonomy just for blogs seems like it might work. I've also consider having a different user name for each blog.
Using the example of a different user name for each blog, the thought came to me of giving each user (who is me) the name of the topic. For example, these would be the user name:
Stephen writes about Religion
Stephen writes about Health
Stephen writes about Family

OR
Stephen about Religion
Stephen about Health
Stephen about Family

OR, the user name could simply be:
Religion
Health
Family

I'm still considering whether I'd write a single blog with the above Taxo-blog approach, or by writing under different user names.