Make sure you enable to Blog module to begin with. Go into Admin and check your configuration settings Check permissions and make sure everything in Admin is checked Then you can begin editing the blog fields but by default you will be good to go

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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 Message-ID: 3435e1f06bc2fce82754d9780904fcef@phpcoderusa.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

Thanks!!

On 2014-06-08 19:10, Jamie Holly wrote:

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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:

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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 Message-ID: < CAOb_5Z2ZnQ_du8fSnU1nqwceuAfgVhN+XkbKW-ctJgO-zQqbOA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

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:

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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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