Multi User Blogging Setup

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 12:48

Lesson Fourteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.

This lesson provides instruction on setting up Drupal to support blogging by multiple users. The lesson covers the addition of new users to the site, configuring permissions to allow new users to blog, creating an author list block and a biography block for each author. The lesson also covers the creation of a special "editor" role that will allow designated users limited administration rights for the management of comments and blog posts.

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Submitted by Jim (not verified) on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 06:21.

Added to DrupalSightings.com

Submitted by J.R. (not verified) on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 17:24.

What do you recommend: Author

What do you recommend: Author Pane or the About the author block? Is it possible to use profile fields with Author Pane?

Thanks!

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 20:04.

Author Pane vs. Author Block

I guess it depends how much control you want over the block. I've never used Author Pane (http://drupal.org/project/author_pane) but it looks pretty nice. When in doubt, try them both and see which one looks and works better for you.

Submitted by Darren (not verified) on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 18:36.

My editor role is not able to

My editor role is not able to access the top admin menu. Editor is given permissions and assigned to a user. Any ideas? Thx.

Submitted by RobertSafuto (not verified) on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 09:50.

Advanced Blog Module

A new module that looks to be very helpful for those creating a multi-use blog on Drupal is Advanced Blog. I haven't tried it yet but I think this is worth a look. http://drupal.org/project/advanced_blog

Submitted by binary basketball (not verified) on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 18:37.

Advanced Blog Module

That module is exactly what I've been looking for. I love your videos by the way and I'm a bit over 3 weeks into my first Drupal site. Thanks for the hard work with learnbythedrop. It has truly helped me immensely.

Submitted by Lee (not verified) on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 15:58.

Problem getting block to show up

Hi, Rob.

First of all, thanks for a great job on this video. It's fits perfectly with a current need that I have and you've covered the bases thoroughly. So, I went and purchased it to have a desktop reference. I'm just having one problem...

While I'm able to get the "Who's new" block to show up on all blog-related pages and the "Author information" block to show up on individual blog posts, what I need to do is have the "Author information" block also show up on the full blog for each author.

My posts are in the form of blogs/[realname]/[yyyy]/[mm]/[dd]/[title-raw] while the authors' blogs are in the form blogs/[realname]. I've tried setting up a path for the "Author information" blog using just about every combination I can think of (blogs/*, blogs/, blogs, blog*/*) but the "Author information" block won't show up on an individual author's full blog. Only the "What's new" block shows up there. Both blocks do show up on individual posts, however.

Any ideas how to achieve this?

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 21:46.

Author Information Block

I think that the author information block is somehow coded to only show up in certain situations. I'm not sure why it works that way. What to do about it? You might be about to use Views to create a view type of "User" that will show information from the profile and appear at the top level of the blog. I haven't tried this personally so I can't say that it will work exactly the way you want to.

Submitted by AVB (not verified) on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:53.

Re: Multi User Blogging Setup

This video plays as Lesson 13: Configuring User Profiles, not as Lesson 14, for me. Does this happen to anyone else? Or am I doing something wrong?

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 19:26.

Re: Multi User Blogging Setup

To quote Britney Spears, "Oops I did it again!" I'm sorry about that. When I changed the embed code to the premium version I made a mistake. All should be well now.