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
Op dinsdag 17 januari 2006 16:59, schreef dondi_2006:
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
No, I think we are talking about the same. IMO a blog distro would still be normal drupal, in the admin and in the way of doing stuff. Just that all the blogish features, such as pings pin.module) trackbacks (trackback module) technocrati and more of that buzzword stuff would already be installed after you get your drupalBLOG up and running.
I am not talking about graphical installers or stuff like that. I personally don't beleive that it is going to help a lot. ;) Drupal will still be as hard as always. Just that it removes the first step (to filter those out that will not grok drupal anyway :p ).
Distros and installprofiles will help all this. But only if they are maintained and if a profile was crafted with greatest care, and knowledge. For install profiles made by joe schmoe after he got his My Coffee Mug Collection Weblog online will only make things worse IMO. And please beware, that this is not arrogancy, but just building on top of the fact that drupal is hard to grok. Learning curves are steep. And only those that already climbed up that curve will know how to make it less steap, IMO.
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