D7 port of Advanced Blog

Just want to chime in and say that Advanced Blog is a great module, and I look forward to it being ported to D7 (actually, this is one of the D7 modules that we need in order to make the move to D7 which is now out).

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I became the co-maintainer of this module a while back, mainly to clean up the 6.x version that was out at that time, because it failed to follow some Drupal best practices and caused conflicts with other modules. At the time I had a project where this module was used, which was the incentive to work on improving it.

The situation for me right now is that I don't particularly have a lot of interest in this module anymore, since i'm only using my cleaned up version for 1 D6 site at the moment, and that site will probably not be ported to D7 any time soon.

So unless the original maintainer or another user has time to port this module to D7, it probably won't happen any time soon, given my busy schedule.
If there is really a ton of interest or some financial reward, then perhaps i could try to make some time to port this module to D7, but otherwise no promises at all unfortunately...

Hope this information is helpful to you :)

@ svendecabooter: Thanks for the info :-) Helpful indeed. However, I cannot code, nor am I able to fund the project, so we'll have to wait till someone picks up the challenge and makes the D7 version happen (or some kind of alternative). Anyway, so far we're sticking with the D6 setup, which is great.

What kind of sum do you have in mind....

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Nice. Has someone tried running the upgrade through coder and seeing how it works? It's usually not perfect but it goes a log way for many modules.

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Just an update for anyone who's hoping on a D7 version from me:
Up until september I don't have any time at all to work on this, even with financial support from interested people.
And probably after the summer there will be other things that will be higher on my todo list as well.
Sorry to bust your hopes :(
Hopefully someone else will pick up the task...

It's been some time since I've had the resources to do development here. Like svendecabooter, this project originally fell in line with sites that I was working on at the time. Unfortunately, I've moved on from those projects and have yet to have the need for this functionality.

It should be noted that similar results can be achieved using http://drupal.org/project/views_customfield and http://drupal.org/project/content_profile. Using Views and Content Profile has proven to be a more stable route as well as a more flexible one. Therefore, unless someone wishes to take up the flag and continue development, I suggest that efforts not be spent on a D7 port.

EDITING as apparently Profile 2 is replacing Content Profile: http://drupal.org/project/profile2

Drupal 7's user fields are also very editable so that might also be an option if you don't need either separate user account settings and user profiles or to give your users access to private user fields.

Also Views Custom Field is being replaced by either straight Views or the http://drupal.org/project/views_php

You may not need Views_PHP though if Views gives you the control you need and you don't need to use PHP directly inside views.

So looks like there's already tools to provide for a migration of this functionality to D7.

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I'm using Advanced Blog on my personal website (not live, as yet), which uses D6. However, I'm looking to move it to D7, seeing as the few contributed modules I use (except Advanced Blog) all have (reasonably) stable D7 versions. Seeing as this is the only module holding me back, I might set up a dev/ conversion D7 and run Advanced Blog through Coder and, if necessary, Schema and others.

If that proves successful, I'll get the D7 version up. At a later stage, I'll attempt to merge it with Flexible Blogs. I'm not making any promises, though, as I don't have much free time.

SImon,

Wow, that would be great! Looking forward to trying it all out...

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I haven't tried it yet, but apparently Wordpress (WP) Blog is a good bet for D7, supposedly providing similar features. If you look at the WP Blog issue for a back-port to D6, Advanced Blog is recommended, so I'm recommending Wordpress (WP) Blog as a likely option for a D7 'port' of Advanced Blog to D7, even though I haven't used it as yet.

The one feature I'd like to have in D7 is the ability to change "username's blog" to a blog title (e.g., "Musings"). If this module will not be ported to D7, could someone point me to instructions about how to achieve that? Thanks.