- Install Drupal.
- Enable the "blog" module and "comment" module. (admin/modules)
- Give "edit own blog" permission to whichever class of users you want
(admin/access). 4) Configure comments to your preference (admin/comments).
All users with that permission now have a blog/uid path that is their personal blog. RSS feed is created automagically. Comments can be moderated or not, require logging in or not, threaded or not, etc.
But will the users (and the blog posts they create under this Drupal configuration) have the same pingback and trackback capabilities and facilities available under WordPress or any other "Blog-only" software?
I asked similar questions a couple of weeks ago, even on the forums, but frankly I haven't understood yet if and how much Drupal-generated pages can behave like "standard" blog pages, as in:
*) be just as quickly and transparently seen/indexed by Technorati and other blog-oriented search engines *) provide to non geeks visitors the same buttons/links as WordPress to trackback their comments on their blogs to my pages, have a permalink, etc... *) ping by themselves pingomatic and similar services
Thanks,
D.