Re: Creating a blog using Drupal 7

Hi Keith,

As soon as you need more than 1 list I think it is better to go with views.
There are default taxonomy lists that you could play around with, but if
you have more than 1 list you often also want to differenciate the display
of those lists and without views you do not have enough options for that.

Best regards,

Hans



2014-06-09 16:14 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>:

> Thank you Hans!!
>
> Very nice minimalistic approach!!
>
> If I wanted more than one content type say a list of businesses plus my
> blog pages, then I assume I would need to use views?
>
> I'm already using views to list Featured articles and to list Top
> Stories.  So maybe using views would be the way to go.
>
> Building an app that is resource wise is also a goal of mine.
>
> Thanks again!!
>
> Keith
>
>
>
> On 2014-06-09 04:09, KOBA | Hans Rossel wrote:
> > 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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