blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
Somewhere in the CivicSpace or Drupal archives I said something to this effect more than a year ago. But I can't code modules ... sigh ... but yes, this is exactly what I've advocated for in the past. I honestly do not understand why there are distinctions between blog, story and page. I find them redundant.
For someone who is a publisher/designer and minor tinkerer of modules, I'd consolidate those three into just the blog node and make that as extensible or static as possible.
Liza, the "node" itself is extensible, blog is not the right root type, "node" is. Story, book, page, forum, blog (SBPFB) all are just alternative names to "node", they don't contain/support more as a content type. Poll supports more (and is different in that it has no body/teaser text). The SBPFB node types exist so that you can assign different workflows to them, and display them in different built in views. Ie. you can easily restrict people to only create content in the forums and not in your articles section. If all these would be one, you would not have this functionality (on the type level). The different display of forums and blogs are also quite handy, or the easier outlining of book nodes (as opposed to what you need to do when putting a story or a poll into a book outline). This is why there are distinctions, maybe it is understandable now. Goba