[support] Blog Sort Order by Date

[Shai Gluskin]

Tom,

Welcome to Drupal!

First off, Drupal's "blog" module is really designed for sites where more
than one person has a blog on the same site. If you don't have more than one
person posting the articles, you don't need to bother with the blog module
and it might even confuse you. You can rename the "story" content type to
"news blog" or something, or simply create a new content type if you want to
keep the story content type.

Yes, you can change the published date field for any node to any date you
want and use that as a method to get them to sort properly.

There are many other ways in Drupal to get content to sort in the order you
want. Later down the road you will certainly find yourself installing the
views <http://drupal.org/project/views> module and maybe also the node
queue<http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue>module to help you pull out
stuff the way you want it. But as a beginner I
think just editing the date published field would be fine.

Good luck,

Shai
content2zero.comhttp://content2zero.com

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Tom Holmes Jr. <tom at tomholmes.net> wrote:

> I'm creating a new site in Drupal 5.7 hosted at SiteGround.
> I'm collecting data (news) from two older sites, and I will move them
> into this new site.
>
> So ... I was thinking of creating a blog .... that way every new news
> item goes to the top of the list and the old news items get pushed down.
> The problem is that since I am collecting data from other sites, I would
> like to sort these things myself.
> For example as I create these entries, I will include a date that the
> news item happened, I would like it sorted in that Chronological order
> with the most recent first.
> If I just create a blog and I add items out of data order, I am afraid
> they will appear in the blog out of order.
>
> So, since I haven't looked at the blog, can I edit the create date and
> put it in the order I want?
> If so that's great, then I can create my entries and they will be sorted
> on the date I entered, not on the actual date I created the node.
> If that solution won't work, what is an alternative solution?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>                                                  Tom
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