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@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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