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   1. Re: Creating a blog using Drupal 7 (techlists@phpcoderusa.com)
   2. Re: Creating a blog using Drupal 7 (KOBA | Hans Rossel)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:43:18 -0700
From: techlists@phpcoderusa.com
Subject: Re: [support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7
To: support@drupal.org
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Thanks!!


On 2014-06-08 19:10, Jamie Holly wrote:
> Create your blog content type, populated with whatever fields you
> desire. Then use the Views module to create a page listing the blog
> articles, as well as other items like an RSS feed, block of recent blog
> posts, etc.
>
> Jamie Holly
> http://hollyit.net
>
> On 6/8/2014 9:04 PM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>>
>> 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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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:09:13 +0200
From: "KOBA | Hans Rossel" <hans.rossel@koba.be>
Subject: Re: [support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7
To: support@drupal.org
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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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