How to relate theme's to Blog's instead of visitors ?

By preitsma on 10 Jul 2006 at 11:54 UTC

Hi,

I am fairly new to Drupal and am investigating if it could serve as the basis for big multi-user blog system we are planning to build. Drupal looks great and offers a lot of functions and API's that would be useful to us.

Afaiks there are just two rather big hacks that should be made in order to fit our requirements:

1) It seems that Drupal's theme mechanism is user related, that is, a user chooses a theme and sees all blogs in this theme. We need user's to be able to theme only there own blog after which every visitor will see this blog in that particular theme. Does anybody know of a module that provides this functionality ? It is doable of creating such module or is a deeper hack into the themes.inc required ?

2) Is it possible to have one user create and maintain multiple blogs ? It seems there is a one-to-one relation between a user and his content. We need a system where a user can have multiple unrelated blogs and associated content repositories. Does anybody know of a module that provides this functionality ?

Thanks in advance for any comments or thoughts on this subject,

Peter Reitsma

Comments

About giving users seperate blogs

seec77 commented 10 July 2006 at 12:53

You can use the CCK (http://drupal.org/project/cck) to create new content types, which you can call 'posts' or whatever, and then use the taxonomy module to allow users to tag each 'post' in a seperate category. Then use the Views (http://drupal.org/project/views) module to create seperate pages for each of a user's blogs. I haven't tried this, but in theory it could work. You should look into that!