[support] support Digest, Vol 138, Issue 6

[Chris McAndrew]

Make sure you enable to Blog module to begin with.
Go into Admin and check your configuration settings
Check permissions and make sure everything in Admin is checked
Then you can begin editing the blog fields but by default you will be good
to go

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On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:00 AM, <support-request at lists.drupal.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Creating a blog using Drupal 7 (techlists at phpcoderusa.com)
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> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:43:18 -0700
> From: techlists at phpcoderusa.com
> Subject: Re: [support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7
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> Thanks!!
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>
> 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
> >>
> >>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:09:13 +0200
> From: "KOBA | Hans Rossel" <hans.rossel at koba.be>
> Subject: Re: [support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7
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> Hi Keith,
>
> Allthough using views will give you a lot more possibilities, it has also a
> learning curve. Activating views will also make your site heavier and
> slower.
>
> So I would like to point out that what you want is also possible without
> views. If your site is a blog site and you only want a blog content type
> and one listing of blog items on /blog you could also do it without view
> following the steps below.
> - Go to Structure > Content types (admin/structure/types) and add your blog
> content type. Edit each content type and remove in publishing options the
> "promote to front page" setting, add it for blog.
> - Go to configuration > site information
> (admin/config/system/site-information) and set the default front page to
> whatever other fixed page you like
> - Go to configuration > url aliases (admin/config/search/path) and add an
> alias "blog" for the existing system path "node"
> - Your blog is now available at /blog, so add it to a menu
> (admin/structure/menu).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hans
>
> 2014-06-09 3:04 GMT+02:00 <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.
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
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