blogdiva wrote:

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 :

Blogdiva,

thanks for all this information. I will certainly study all the modules and links you signalled in the next days. However, please note that my questions were not meant to "setup a community blog platform with Drupal". Instead, I need to build a site where:

1) content is *only* created by me (and maybe a few others), is *not* really "blog-like" (that is a chronological series of short articles with or without some tags attached), has a complex structure and extra features that can be managed much more easily with Drupal than Wordpress or any other blog-focused package, but:

2) each of the pages/nodes created should be just as "bloggy" as if it had been created with WordPress, that is offer trackbacks to/from plain blogs, pingbacks, technorati indexing and everything else said in this thread, with as little manual work as possible by the webmaster

So I will study all the material you listed, and am not afraid of manual configs or PHP hacking to build the website, but the question is, can all the modules and procedures you listed help me to build a website as above? A full fledged CMS with a 100% blog-like behavior towards its_visitors_, not its content creators?

TIA, D.