Re: Creating a blog using Drupal 7

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 <[email protected]>:

>
>
> 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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