How to make Drupal more bloggy [Re: [support] massive blog hosting]

[blogdiva at culturekitchen.com]

On Feb 04 2006, at 08:59, dondi_2006 wrote:
> But will the users (and the blog posts they create under this Drupal
> configuration) have the same pingback and trackback capabilities and
> facilities available under WordPress or any other "Blog-only"  
> software?
>

Yes, and even better because you can queue trackbacks by default and,  
in effect, weed out the splogs.


> I asked similar questions a couple of weeks ago, even on the  
> forums, but frankly I haven't understood yet if and how much Drupal- 
> generated pages
> can behave like "standard" blog pages, as in:
>
> *) be just as quickly and transparently seen/indexed by Technorati and
>    other blog-oriented search engines

You have to do your own footwork with services like Technorati as  
well as set up the blogs with TBs and pings. If I were you, I'd take  
a look at the distribution put together by CivicSpaceLabs

www.civicspacelabs.org

It has everything you need to use Drupal as a community blog  
platform. I have added to my set up the following modules :

TAXONOMY-ON-THE-FLY : Allows bloggers to add categories from within a  
blogpost. Unfortunately nobody has come up with a del.icio.us like  
module that would allow readers to tag the posts.

TAGALICIOUS : Creates a del.icio.us-like weighted list of tags.

USERPOSTS : Outputs a list of the blogger's posts on their profile page

ARCHIVE : Use it if you want to have archives by date (I personally  
do not use it so as not to confuse people with the calendar)

ATOM : I still do not understand why it's an ad-in and not a default,  
but whatever

TAXONOMY DHTML : Nice and easy way to create tag trees on a page of  
easy navigation

LIVE DISCUSSIONS : Most commented posts will appear on this list

I am also using PHP customized blocks for my "Counter Talk" section  
which is the latest blog posts on the site with author's name and  
date published

LINK SERVICES- creates post-to links to digg, delicious, technorati, etc

NOTIFY : For subscribed  users and readers; it allows them to get  
notified by email of new content on the site.

NODELIST : A list of all entries, alphabetical

SCHEDULER: Needs cleaning up, unfortunately it sets the time as per  
the server and not the user; but allows you to post date posts a la  
TypePad

SEND : An email this page form.

SMILEYS

SUBSCRIPTION : You can subscribe to entire blogs or single posts

QUICKTAGS : For basic HTML because TInyMCE sucks. Why is it nobody  
has managed to a carbon-coy HMTL widget of what SixApart has created  
for their blogs? Why oh why oh why!

I use tons other modules, but these are, I think, the most basic.

I have done a lot of customization to my site design as well because  
I developed my themes, which are based on Marvin2k PHPTemplate,  
before the new CivicSpace theme distros. The CSL themes include an  
admin section that definitely creates a more bloggy experience with  
the site. For my sites, I use a lot the the blocks/boxes' peek-a-boo  
features. SO for example, only admin blocks appear in admin sections.  
Same with the Navigation and Content Form links. Ive separated the  
editing links from the navigation block and make all these appear  
only in user or content add/editing pages.

Just drop-by www.culturekitchen.com, open an account and see for  
yourself. Give it a spin :)

I have not used yet the MacroTags module but I am seriously  
considering taking it for a spin.

Best,

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> *) provide to non geeks visitors the same buttons/links as  
> WordPress to
>    trackback their comments on their blogs to my pages, have a  
> permalink,
>    etc...
> *) ping by themselves pingomatic and similar services
>
> Thanks,
>
> D.
>
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