By jason342 on

What’s the difference between Story and Blog, in create content?

Other than a blog can be only accessed by their respective useR while story can be accessed by many userS, what other difference are there in the functionality, etc…?

If I am the only one publishing, do you think is wise to go with story or blog as “news entries”.

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nevets commented

A story represents a single piece of content. Unless you add it to the menu, the only way to access it is with its path (dfault: node/#, where # is the nid)

A blog is much the same but it adds a index page (blog/USER_ID) that lists all the blog entries for that user. It also adds some menu entries.

Both can be viewed and added by anyone with the correct permissions. You can chose to promote either (or both) to the frontpage and you can add menu entries for either.

For "news entries" I would tend to use the story module and if you need custom index pages the views module for that.

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sepeck commented

handbooks >> Introduction to Drupal terminology >> Node types

Note: A common question is "What is the difference between page and story?" The answer is not much. There was more difference originally but they are merely different node types now and how you use them is up to you.

Some additional suggestions and links for light reading can be found here

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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bwooster47 commented

Some additional suggestions and links for light reading can be found here

I did not find anything immediately relevant to the story vs blog issue, and am still struggling with the story vs blog issue.

As you say, there is not much difference.

Can think of classifying differences on two levels:

1) Technical
Are there any link/access/technical related differences? Date-based archives?
Since every story can be categorized, and sorted by date/time, using just a story seems to be enough to get what a blog offers.

2) Content related
Is there generally different kind of content on a blog? Short, daily/periodic jottings?

For those who deliberately decided to use a blog instead of story, could you post some comments on your reasons for doing it - only looking for those using single-user drupal sites. For multi-users, maybe blog makes sense, but for single-user drupal site, is someone using blog instead of just stories?

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sepeck commented

One is called Story type content. The other is called Page type content.

A description o fthe rest can be found http://drupal.org/handbook/modules
Blog http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/blog
Page http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/page
Story http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/story

I use blog because I felt like it.

-Steven Peck
---------
Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
---------
Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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jhun vert commented

We are in the same position, I just wonder what Dries used for his blog. I hope he will share it here. (Did I not sound too ambitious, hope not)