By xpi on

that might have been asked many times.

what i want is to use the full power of drupal as single user.
how to make a blog which really works and does look like a blog (coming from movable type).

i know drupal for many years, but never found a working example for that what i need.

blog simply needs to be for me, so when using pathauto, on /blog there should be a page which does show blog related menu.

like

cat1
sub1
sub2
cat2
sub1
sub_etc

and there has to be the usual history like blogs have.
and it should ping sites where my input may relate too.

i want to use windows live writer as client to post to my blog.

there will be no other blogs, so '{user}'s blog' is not required.

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WorldFallz commented

Don't use the core blog module (which is really for multi-user blogs). You can just use the core 'story' content type, then setup core taxonomy for tags and use views to create whatever listings you want.

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xpi commented

thanks for your input!
for using the wlw (windows live writer) module, the core blog module needs to be enabled, but i will ignore it. so i need to tell pathauto not to create any links at all for core blog, because my story (clone) is supposed to be the url?

(should i better make a copy of story content type to keep story clean?)

i created a new content type with type and name 'entry'

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WorldFallz commented

I don't think you need to the blog module-- just the blogapi module. However, the http://drupal.org/project/wlw_blogapi module is supposed to work better with wlw. If blog is not enabled, then you won't have a blog content type and pathauto won't be an issue.

As for using story or creating a new content type-- it's entirely up to you.

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xpi commented

what i can't figure out is how use two vocabularies.
one for category, which has predefined terms and is set to required and from which the node path should be created from. this one is supposed to be used for a menu and also should be not displayed as tagged (that probably requires node template editing?)
and the second vocabulary 'tags' for tags.
for some reason pathauto is creating the node path from tags instead from category.

i guess i miss something.

edit:
its all about vocabulary weight :)
so i set tags to one and now path are created right.
[type]/[term-raw]/[title-raw]

need to test that with the freetagging module, when posting with a blog client.

now i need to learn how to exclude the category from being displayed as tagged.

any input is most welcome.