[support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7

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Thank you Hans!!

Very nice minimalistic approach!!

If I wanted more than one content type say a list of businesses plus my 
blog pages, then I assume I would need to use views?

I'm already using views to list Featured articles and to list Top 
Stories.  So maybe using views would be the way to go.

Building an app that is resource wise is also a goal of mine.

Thanks again!!

Keith



On 2014-06-09 04:09, KOBA | Hans Rossel wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> Allthough using views will give you a lot more possibilities, it has
> also a learning curve. Activating views will also make your site
> heavier and slower.
> 
> So I would like to point out that what you want is also possible
> without views. If your site is a blog site and you only want a blog
> content type and one listing of blog items on /blog you could also do
> it without view following the steps below.
>  - Go to Structure > Content types (admin/structure/types) and add
> your blog content type. Edit each content type and remove in
> publishing options the "promote to front page" setting, add it for
> blog.
>  - Go to configuration > site information
> (admin/config/system/site-information) and set the default front page
> to whatever other fixed page you like
> - Go to configuration > url aliases (admin/config/search/path) and add
> an alias "blog" for the existing system path "node"
>  - Your blog is now available at /blog, so add it to a menu
> (admin/structure/menu).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
>  2014-06-09 3:04 GMT+02:00 <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>:
> 
>> Hi,  I'm rather new to Drupal and would like to create a blog and
>> not
>> have my article list be the home page.  I would like to designate
>> another page called "blog", or any name I select, to be the listing
>> page.
>> 
>> I am reading that the best way to do so is to create a "blog"
>> content
>> type.  I am reading the blog module is not the best approach and
>> this
>> module will be removed in version 8.
>> 
>> I'm thinking I need two things:
>> 
>> 1) blog content type
>> 2) blog listing page - do I need to create this or is this
>> automatically
>> created as part of the creation of the content type.
>> 
>> If there is a better solution, please advise.
>> 
>> Any guidance is much appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
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