DRUPAL BLOGGINGDrupal Melbourne, July 24th

@chrischinch

WHAT IS A ‘BLOG’?Or… ‘Web-log’

A COLLECTION OF CONTENT (AND USERS)?Isn’t that Drupal to a T?

What will we be covering

• Moving from more traditional blogging platforms

• How to find functionality you may be looking for

• In this case• Tumblr• Blogger• Wordpress

HANG ON! DOESN’T DRUPAL HAVE A ‘BLOG’ MODULE?

What are you looking for?

• WYSIWYG editor• drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

• Labels/Tags• Taxonomy

• Scheduling posts• drupal.org/project/scheduler

• Drafting posts and Preview• Built in

What are you looking for?

•Comments• Built in, Disqus, Facebook and more…

•Social• Many, many modules

•RSS• Built in, extra modules

•SEO / Analytics• Many modules to help

Layout and Theme• Blocks and regions• Panels

• drupal.org/project/panels

• Display Suite• drupal.org/project/ds

• LiveThemer• drupal.org/project/livethemer (D7)

• Theming• drupal.org/project/themes• drupal.org/documentation/theme

Tumblr

• Importing your old posts• RSS/XML?

• Mass editing• drupal.org/project/

views_bulk_operations/

• Media posts/comments• drupal.org/project/media• Comments?

Blogger

• Importing your old posts• drupal.org/project/

blogger_importer

• Location on posts• drupal.org/project/location

Wordpress

• Importing your old posts• drupal.org/project/

wordpress_migrate (D7)• drupal.org/project/

wordpress_import (D6)

• Private posts• ?

• Permissions• Built in

• Plugins?• 17,000+ Drupal modules

How to blog

• Basic• Use ‘Article’ content type• Fill in fields• Promote to front page

• Advanced• Add extra fields• Use Views

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THANKS!Chris Ward

@chrischinch

chris@moatmedia.com.au

www.linkedin.com/in/chrischinchilla