<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Keith, <br><br></div>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. <br>
<br></div>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. <br>
</div>- 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.<br>
</div>- Go to configuration > site information (admin/config/system/site-information) and set the default front page to whatever other fixed page you like<br></div>- Go to configuration > url aliases (admin/config/search/path) and add an alias "blog" for the existing system path "node"<br>
</div>- Your blog is now available at /blog, so add it to a menu (admin/structure/menu).<br><br></div>Best regards, <br><br></div>Hans<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2014-06-09 3:04 GMT+02:00 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi, I'm rather new to Drupal and would like to create a blog and not<br>
have my article list be the home page. I would like to designate<br>
another page called "blog", or any name I select, to be the listing<br>
page.<br>
<br>
I am reading that the best way to do so is to create a "blog" content<br>
type. I am reading the blog module is not the best approach and this<br>
module will be removed in version 8.<br>
<br>
I'm thinking I need two things:<br>
<br>
1) blog content type<br>
2) blog listing page - do I need to create this or is this automatically<br>
created as part of the creation of the content type.<br>
<br>
If there is a better solution, please advise.<br>
<br>
Any guidance is much appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks!!<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
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