- 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.
On Feb 04 2006, at 08:59, dondi_2006 wrote:
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?
Yes, and even better because you can queue trackbacks by default and, in effect, weed out the splogs.
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
You have to do your own footwork with services like Technorati as well as set up the blogs with TBs and pings. If I were you, I'd take a look at the distribution put together by CivicSpaceLabs
www.civicspacelabs.org
It has everything you need to use Drupal as a community blog platform. I have added to my set up the following modules :
TAXONOMY-ON-THE-FLY : Allows bloggers to add categories from within a blogpost. Unfortunately nobody has come up with a del.icio.us like module that would allow readers to tag the posts.
TAGALICIOUS : Creates a del.icio.us-like weighted list of tags.
USERPOSTS : Outputs a list of the blogger's posts on their profile page
ARCHIVE : Use it if you want to have archives by date (I personally do not use it so as not to confuse people with the calendar)
ATOM : I still do not understand why it's an ad-in and not a default, but whatever
TAXONOMY DHTML : Nice and easy way to create tag trees on a page of easy navigation
LIVE DISCUSSIONS : Most commented posts will appear on this list
I am also using PHP customized blocks for my "Counter Talk" section which is the latest blog posts on the site with author's name and date published
LINK SERVICES- creates post-to links to digg, delicious, technorati, etc
NOTIFY : For subscribed users and readers; it allows them to get notified by email of new content on the site.
NODELIST : A list of all entries, alphabetical
SCHEDULER: Needs cleaning up, unfortunately it sets the time as per the server and not the user; but allows you to post date posts a la TypePad
SEND : An email this page form.
SMILEYS
SUBSCRIPTION : You can subscribe to entire blogs or single posts
QUICKTAGS : For basic HTML because TInyMCE sucks. Why is it nobody has managed to a carbon-coy HMTL widget of what SixApart has created for their blogs? Why oh why oh why!
I use tons other modules, but these are, I think, the most basic.
I have done a lot of customization to my site design as well because I developed my themes, which are based on Marvin2k PHPTemplate, before the new CivicSpace theme distros. The CSL themes include an admin section that definitely creates a more bloggy experience with the site. For my sites, I use a lot the the blocks/boxes' peek-a-boo features. SO for example, only admin blocks appear in admin sections. Same with the Navigation and Content Form links. Ive separated the editing links from the navigation block and make all these appear only in user or content add/editing pages.
Just drop-by www.culturekitchen.com, open an account and see for yourself. Give it a spin :)
I have not used yet the MacroTags module but I am seriously considering taking it for a spin.
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*) 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.
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I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
any of you knows where can I get hosting wihere they can handle large amount of traffic and also large amount of disk space also with drupal support?
Thanks, Luis
On 2/4/06, dondi_2006 dondi_2006@libero.it wrote:
- 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.
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luis medrano wrote:
I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
any of you knows where can I get hosting wihere they can handle large amount of traffic and also large amount of disk space also with drupal support?
I'm thinking of getting a reseller account on mher.org. Has anyone had any experience with them?
Dave
I'm just wondering if any of you saw my email last week.
thanks, Luis
On 2/8/06, luis medrano lmzaldivar@gmail.com wrote:
I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
any of you knows where can I get hosting wihere they can handle large amount of traffic and also large amount of disk space also with drupal support?
Thanks, Luis
On Feb 14, 2006, at 7:07 PM, luis medrano wrote:
I'm just wondering if any of you saw my email last week.
thanks, Luis
On 2/8/06, luis medrano lmzaldivar@gmail.com wrote:
I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
Taking a little time to do a test install of Drupal would answer many of your questions. Drupal's look and feel can be changed extensively by developing custom stylesheets.
As for the virtual domains, I don't believe Drupal supports this.
any of you knows where can I get hosting wihere they can handle large amount of traffic and also large amount of disk space also with drupal support?
The Drupal site lists some Drupal-friendly hosting services. It sounds like you might be best served with a leased server, where you would have much more control.
Andrew
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On Wednesday 15 February 2006 05:58 am, Andrew Cohill wrote:
On Feb 14, 2006, at 7:07 PM, luis medrano wrote:
I'm just wondering if any of you saw my email last week.
thanks, Luis
On 2/8/06, luis medrano lmzaldivar@gmail.com wrote:
I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
As for the virtual domains, I don't believe Drupal supports this.
Actually, Drupal can do that. It's described under "4. CONNECTING DRUPAL" of http://drupal.org/node/43807
Luis, as Andrew said, it is worth your time to spend a few hours to just install Drupal in a test environment to look around at what it has to offer. That, and reading through the documentation on http://drupal.org/, will answer most, if not all, of the questions you have.
On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Jason Flatt wrote:
On 2/8/06, luis medrano lmzaldivar@gmail.com wrote:
I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
As for the virtual domains, I don't believe Drupal supports this.
Actually, Drupal can do that. It's described under "4. CONNECTING DRUPAL" of http://drupal.org/node/43807
I did not give a very clear answer. Drupal can support virtual domains, but Luis wanted to give a subdomain to each user blog, as I understood his question. As far as I know, there is no way to do this.
The virtual domains referenced in the install instructions refer to using a sub-domain for an entire Drupal install. What Luis wants is something entirely different.
Andrew
------------------------------------------------- Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D. President
Design Nine provides telecommunications master planning services and telecommunications and broadband project management.
Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and commentary on technology issues. http://www.designnine.com/news/
http://www.designnine.com/ Blacksburg, Virginia Voice: 540.951.4400 Cell: 540.320.4406
Andrew you are correct what I wanted to do is implement a subdomain for each user but as I can see this is not possible and my question now is, can implement this kind of URL for the individual user blog: http://mydomain.com/<blogtitle> ...http://mydomain.com/luis-blog.
I will really appreciate your comments.
Thanks, Luis
On 2/16/06, Andrew Cohill cohill@designnine.com wrote:
On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Jason Flatt wrote:
On 2/8/06, luis medrano lmzaldivar@gmail.com wrote:
I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
As for the virtual domains, I don't believe Drupal supports this.
Actually, Drupal can do that. It's described under "4. CONNECTING DRUPAL" of http://drupal.org/node/43807
I did not give a very clear answer. Drupal can support virtual domains, but Luis wanted to give a subdomain to each user blog, as I understood his question. As far as I know, there is no way to do this.
The virtual domains referenced in the install instructions refer to using a sub-domain for an entire Drupal install. What Luis wants is something entirely different.
Andrew
Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D. President
Design Nine provides telecommunications master planning services and telecommunications and broadband project management.
Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and commentary on technology issues. http://www.designnine.com/news/
http://www.designnine.com/ Blacksburg, Virginia Voice: 540.951.4400 Cell: 540.320.4406
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On Feb 16, 2006, at 12:45 PM, luis medrano wrote:
Andrew you are correct what I wanted to do is implement a subdomain for each user but as I can see this is not possible and my question now is, can implement this kind of URL for the individual user blog: http://mydomain.com/<blogtitle> ...http://mydomain.com/luis-blog.
more or less. If you enable blogs in Drupal, every registered user gets a URL that would look like this:
http://mydomain.com/blog/<user-name>
or to be more specific, if there is a user named 'luis'
perhaps that will do it for you.
Andrew
------------------------------------------------- Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D. President
Design Nine provides telecommunications master planning services and telecommunications and broadband project management.
Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and commentary on technology issues. http://www.designnine.com/news/
http://www.designnine.com/ Blacksburg, Virginia Voice: 540.951.4400 Cell: 540.320.4406
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luis medrano wrote:
Andrew you are correct what I wanted to do is implement a subdomain for each user but as I can see this is not possible and my question now is, can implement this kind of URL for the individual user blog: http://mydomain.com/<blogtitle> ...http://mydomain.com/luis-blog.
I will really appreciate your comments.
Thanks, Luis
Hello. It is possible to use subdomains for blogs, but it requires some extra effort to make it work. This howto should still work --
On 15-Feb-2006, at 5:58 AM, Andrew Cohill wrote:
On Feb 14, 2006, at 7:07 PM, luis medrano wrote:
I'm just wondering if any of you saw my email last week.
thanks, Luis
On 2/8/06, luis medrano lmzaldivar@gmail.com wrote:
I really appreciate all your responces but I still have some questions. How easy is to manipulate the graphic interface of drupal, I'm talking about implementing my own logo and stuff and the login page. Also Can I use virtual domains for the users blogs?, for example user1.myblog.com, user2.myblog.com.
Taking a little time to do a test install of Drupal would answer many of your questions. Drupal's look and feel can be changed extensively by developing custom stylesheets.
As for the virtual domains, I don't believe Drupal supports this.
You can certainly implement multiple sites/subdomains, but at the moment this would be a manual configuration, so it would be tedious if you had more than a handful of users.
You might try to set things up using organic groups, having a group per user.
Djun
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