Blogging Feature

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Features Package

Component ID

2128993

Component name

Blogging Feature

Component type

module

Maintenance status

Minimally maintained

Development status

Maintenance fixes only

Component security advisory coverage

not-covered

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Component changed

Component body

This is an blogging feature example for Drupal 7.x.

To get this going:

  1. Download and install Drupal 7 core
  2. Download the following modules to sites/all/modules:
  3. Checkout the repo for this Sandbox to sites/all/moduels
  4. Enable the Blogging feature
  5. Enjoy the following features
    • Blog link is in the navigation menu
    • The blog path is /blog thanks to pathauto
    • Individual blog post paths are /blog/[blog-title] thanks to pathauto
    • Vocabulary "Blog tags" is dedicated to the "Blog post" content type
    • A block of used Blog tags is positioned in the first sidebar of any blog pages thanks to the Context module
    • The Blog tags paths are /blog-tags/[term-name] thanks to Pathauto
    • The /blog teaser page and blog tags block are both generated by custom views

Recommendation: Download the Devel suite of modules, enable the Devel Generate module, and generate blog post nodes, comments, and taxonomy terms to quickly see how this all works.

Component url

https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/shrop/blogging