January 2006 - support - lists.drupal.org

Geotagging and GIS in Drupal?
by dondi_2006 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hello, another thing I'd need from Drupal is Geotagging support, that is the ability to categorize and search content based on location: "This node is associated these coordinates" "List all relevant nodes associated to places maximum 100 miles from my home" I've seen with Google there is a location module. I'll study it, but any feedback, code example, URLs of Drupal sites already doing this etc are greatly appreciated. TIA, Ortles

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Trackbacks, pingbacks, Technorati: Drupal vs wordpress?
by dondi_2006 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Thanks to all who already answered to my request on "How to make drupal friendly to Wordpress / blog users?" Answers to that thread are still very much appreciated, of course, since I'd really like to put together as much info as possible. In the meantime, the feedback I got helped me to reformulate better the following parts of the problem: 1) I've discovered and read with great interest the thread "Wordpress vs Drupal; what's in a reputation?" at http://drupal.org/node/29364 I have the same need expressed by debocracy ("blogging in drupal" comment) on October 28, 2005 : > I need something that is acceptable to Technorati and other > blog traffic sites that is not embarrassingly dull and > featureless. so one of my questions becomes "how to make drupal-generated content automatically findable and indexable by Technorati and other blog search engines just as if it had been made with wordpress??" 2) the other thing I'd need to know and study is how the trackback and pingback/pingomatic capabilities of Drupal differ from those of wordpress. Links to full reviews and comparisons of these specific aspects, tutorials, first hand experience and tips, pointers to Drupal sites which already offer trackback/pingback are greatly appreciated. Thanks you all in advance for feedback, Ortles (still very interested in the general issue as explained in the other thread)

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Re: [support] How to make drupal friendly to Wordpress / blog users?
by dondi_2006 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Liza Sabater wrote: > Hi Ortles, > > I need a couple of questions answered before I tackle this [...] > (1) What is it that you want to get from Drupal that you don't > get from WordPress? Meaning, are you using it just for blogging > or for something else, like setting a calendar of events, > bookreviews, recipes, etc. If by blogging you mean "only one person publishing more or less short text pieces tagged by date and some keywords" no, it's not just blogging. I need to build two sites with several sections, each with sub/subsections, each section with mixed static and dynamic material, and several other things that AFAIK aren't possible with Wordpress (not with GPL plugins at least). Furthermore, one of those sites will have to be co-edited by me and others. That's why I'm almost sure I need a full fledged CMS. > (2) Are you using one Drupal installation for one user or > setting it up for multiple users? One per site, but one site will have multiple editors. > (3) At what level do you want it to be WP-like? The design or > the admin/editing interface? probably neither, see my other post. I don't care if *I* have to do things by hand or from the command line, and I want the sites more powerful than most blogs I've seen. I only want these sites to be WP-like for *others*, that is in: accessibility, findability and linkability by casual bloggers: There are millions of people who would prefer torture to seeing or editing HTML or PHP: but today they all have their blogs, and can immediately link and refer to each other because by now they can all trackback, pingback and search technorati. I want my content to be linkable/trackable to and from normal blogs just like, and with the same ease for my *visitors*, if it had been created with WP or anything else which, by default, adds "pingback" "trackback" and similar universally known buttons for the web-coding challenged. And for the same reasons, I want it to be searched/indexed also by blog specific search engines, just if it were a "normal" blog. I don't care if *I* have to patch Drupal by hand or hack my own scripts, but I'd really like to know what is the easiest way to achieve the above. Thanks for any help, Ortles

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RE: [support] Couple questions
by Metzler, David 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Regarding content moderation: Navigate to administer-> content Select Configure tab Select Content types sub-tab Select the content type you're interested in Uncheck the published select in "default options" on this page. Dave ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:39 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] Couple questions Hi all, I had mentioned previously that I was having problems with the themes working on version 4.5 of Drupal. I noticed that PHPTemplate 4.5 was not working with my Drupal site version 4.5 However, the themes for 4.5 do seem to work with the installation of 4.5 However, it seems that I'm now seeing problems as I select add content. It has the permissions necessary, more than what is requied. Questions that exist now, are whether I should try to get PHPTemplate 4.5 to work with my Drupal 4.5 installation. I'm not sure why I'm having problems with that. I was able to remove it, go to PHPTemplates 4.6 and it seemed to work with my Drupal 4.5 installation, where 4.5 of PHPTemplate was not working. For now, I'll use a non-PHPTemplate theme, which is very undesireable. Why would I get an error when I try to add content when a theme u sing phptemplate is the selected theme? If I switch to a non-PHPTemplate theme, I don't have this problem. Any suggestions? This is rather bizarre, I know. Are there other themes out there then what appears on the site http://drupal.org/project/themes/ ? I'm looking for something for a poetry magazine that published supernatural poetry as well as dark/horror writing. So, a dark theme maybe would be good. My next question is relating to access and posting for users, roles, on the site. I want to allow even anonymous persons/roles to submit stories, maybe a poem content type, which I saw as a good idea suggested to me, and blogs, pages, etc. I just need to be sure that any content submitted will need to be approved first for posting. I can see how to setup that requirement for comments but I' m looking for that for any content, any nodes. How do I do this? I know I enquired about this previously and so if it was answered, forgive me. I do read what I get but I can't find any message with this discussed. Again thanks for tips on the theme issues. This doesn't happen for others often so have others used 4.5 and 4.4 as well as the more recent versions? Thanks, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Photos - Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photobooks/*http://pa.yahoo.com /*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38088/*http://pg.ph otos.yahoo.com/ph//page?.file=photobook_splash.html> . You design it and we'll bind it!

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How to make drupal friendly to Wordpress / blog users?
by dondi_2006 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, I have to build a new website. Initially I considered wordpress, then I realized that Drupal is better for the way I must/want manage and categorize content. The reason to consider wordpress was that all blogging software make very easy to bloggers (= web surfers who do not know and do not want to know php, html, mysql....) to trackback, pingback, discover new articles through technoratic, pingomatic and similar, write about them and cross link them... In a nutshell, I had the impression that I should use a blog tool not because it was best for *me* as the publisher: only to make it much easier and faster for the non technical web user to discover and cross-reference (=advertise!) my own pages from their blogs: you know, to provide all the trackback, pingback, permalink stuff etc... that they already know from *their* own wordpress/ MT/whatever installation. So the question is, if/how it is possible to make a Drupal Website look/act like another blog from this point of view? Which settings, plugins, whatever? Also, can you provide URLs of drupal-powered websites which already do this, so I can see the final effect? Thanks in advance for any feedback, Ortles

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Re: [support] How to make drupal friendly to Wordpress / blog users?
by dondi_2006 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

> Op dinsdag 17 januari 2006 15:52, schreef dondi_2006: > > So the question is, if/how it is possible to make a Drupal > > Website look/act like another blog from this point of view? > > Which settings, plugins, whatever? > > I think that is a small question with a HUGE answer. Just to make sure that there are no misunderstandings, note that I do *not* want nor need that Drupal becomes as easy to install and manage as Wordpress (whatever that means). I have no problem to hack php code and similar, if the result is good. I "just" want to know how to make Drupal-generated content easy to process for *others*, namely the bloggers visiting my site, that is: 1) friendly to all those technocrati-like pingy things, aka blog search engines, so blog users see/find my stuff quicker, and my content is also listed in those search engines. 2) show at the bottom of my pages all those "trackback this", "permalink", "pingback that" buttons that casual bloggers know how to use to link to my pages from their vanilla WordPress installation (which in turn, if I understand it correctly, would make my pages more visible also in blog-specific search engines, right?) > ... > A distro would be the route to take. But choosing, > searching and finding all the modules, settings, special > configs, themes, theme-engines etc is a tough job. Yes, that's exactly the kind of info I hope to gather with my request. >though am certain that if there are a few volunteers who > are confident they can maintain such a drupalBLOG distro Maintain, no, thanks (also because I don't exactly need a drupalBLOG distro, see above: I need something that *looks* like a blog to others, not to me the webmaster). But posting here one final summary of everything is suggested, so somebody can easily insert it in the official docs, that I will do for sure Thanks in advance for any further feedback. Let's start listing all these plugins/themes/whatever! Ortles

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excessive bandwith usage
by Larry 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Greetings all, My site appears to be using too much bandwith. Iam on a shared hosting server and my provider has told me I am using in excess of 16% whilst I am only allowed 3% It also appears there about 50,000 visitors a day to the site which is a bit alrming as I have less than 300 members, What modules or scripts do you guys think are causing this excessive bandwith usage? I am running drupal 4.63 regards Larry

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RE: [support] Re: Revsion history of a document.
by Steven Peck 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

perhaps diff http://drupal.org/project/diff ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org on behalf of Alex Polite Sent: Mon 1/16/2006 6:55 AM To: drupal-support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] Re: Revsion history of a document. On 1/16/06, Alex Polite <notmyprivateemail(a)gmail.com> wrote: > How do I view the revision history of a node? > > I feel like a complete moron not being able to figure this out? Found it. Under "Administer->content->content types" enable "new revisions" for all content types that should support revisions. Still haven't found a way to compare revisions though. -- Alex Polite http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Couple questions
by Bruce Whealton 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hi all, I had mentioned previously that I was having problems with the themes working on version 4.5 of Drupal. I noticed that PHPTemplate 4.5 was not working with my Drupal site version 4.5 However, the themes for 4.5 do seem to work with the installation of 4.5 However, it seems that I'm now seeing problems as I select add content. It has the permissions necessary, more than what is requied. Questions that exist now, are whether I should try to get PHPTemplate 4.5 to work with my Drupal 4.5 installation. I'm not sure why I'm having problems with that. I was able to remove it, go to PHPTemplates 4.6 and it seemed to work with my Drupal 4.5 installation, where 4.5 of PHPTemplate was not working. For now, I'll use a non-PHPTemplate theme, which is very undesireable. Why would I get an error when I try to add content when a theme using phptemplate is the selected theme? If I switch to a non-PHPTemplate theme, I don't have this problem. Any suggestions? This is rather bizarre, I know. Are there other themes out there then what appears on the site http://drupal.org/project/themes/ ? I'm looking for something for a poetry magazine that published supernatural poetry as well as dark/horror writing. So, a dark theme maybe would be good. My next question is relating to access and posting for users, roles, on the site. I want to allow even anonymous persons/roles to submit stories, maybe a poem content type, which I saw as a good idea suggested to me, and blogs, pages, etc. I just need to be sure that any content submitted will need to be approved first for posting. I can see how to setup that requirement for comments but I'm looking for that for any content, any nodes. How do I do this? I know I enquired about this previously and so if it was answered, forgive me. I do read what I get but I can't find any message with this discussed. Again thanks for tips on the theme issues. This doesn't happen for others often so have others used 4.5 and 4.4 as well as the more recent versions? Thanks, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and well bind it!

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subdomain problem
by Ernie＠moretodo.be 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

i hope someone can help me, my subdomains don't work anymore since i installed drupal on my domain the problem is when i use subdomain.domain.com the site opens but when i login its changes its url to www.domain.com/subdomain i hope someone knows a solution for it :s

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