[support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7

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Thanks!!


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