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By Big Dog on
With drupal, could I set up a site where anyone can create a blog of their own, and have a simple urls for their areas like
www.bigdog.org/ricksblog.php
www.bigdog.org/marysblog.php (the extension could be anything)
On the front page could I have a list of all the blogger's names?
Comments
well
i am writing a 'sites' module for 4.4 which links the blogs to
http://domain/sites/username
it's live at http://staging.oasismag.com/sites/adrian for instance
Any reason to not add this fu
Any reason to not add this functionality directly to the blog module? See my other comment reply.
Currently, any user can be gi
Currently, any user can be given permission to maintain their own blog. It's accessible through
www.bigdog.org/blog/*user-id*
. Recent blog posts can be displayed using the blog block, plus any blog post can be promoted to the front page.Having a friendly name for the link, like "rick" or "mary", would be a good feature request, and actually very easy to implement -- probably the best way would be to have blog/*username* instead of the user ID.
Path.module
Using path.module you can make any URL in Drupal shorter, and it will be used everywhere.
e.g "blog/1" to "joe" will cause UID 1 (Joe)'s blog to be accessible as site.com/joe
(if you have clean URLs off, you get site.com?q=joe)
But this would have to be don
But this would have to be done manually for every blog...
Hi guys, thanks for all the t
Hi guys, thanks for all the thoughtful answers. You did a nice job there adrian, I checked out your site. I like the emphasis on user friendlyness. My thought is that a user should only have to remember his name, and my site's name, in order to find his free "home page". That makes it more likely they will give the url away to their friends.