[support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7

[Jamie Holly]

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 at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>
> 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
>
>