[support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7

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Thank you very much!!

It would be a single user blog.  No articles outside of the blog.  I 
would create maybe 15 or 20 pages though.

Thanks again!!




On 2014-06-08 19:55, Nancy Wichmann wrote:
> If you are going for a single user blog, you would probably be better
> off going with a normal content type and Views.
> 
> If you are going for a multi-user blog, I would stick with the Blog
> module. In Drupal 8, it will almost certainly be a contributed module,
> perhaps improved from the current core version.
> 
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>> FROM: "techlists at phpcoderusa.com"
>> 
>> 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.