Blogging with Drupal 6 - Part 2
In the first post of this series I covered migrating and backing up content in Drupal 6. Today it will be Drupal 6 modules.
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In the first post of this series I covered migrating and backing up content in Drupal 6. Today it will be Drupal 6 modules.
I use Comment Closer to close comments on old posts to reduce spam on my blog. I wanted visitors to know immediately if a post was no longer accepting comments, and give them alternative means of contacting me about the post. You can see it in action in these two old posts: post with comments, post with no comment. Here is how I did this in Drupal 6:
Since I write and tweet about HTML5 Koolaid, it is only appropriate that my website also incorporates the new and improved semantic elements of HTML5. I also figured it would be the right time to upgrade to Drupal 6.
Here is how you can create a theme which uses some of the new elements of HTML5. This is not the only way to do it, but simply my attempt at creating one. Please comment if you know of better ways to do it.
Link: http://drupal.org/project/keyword_autocomplete
Keyword Autocomplete lets you add autocomplete functionality to your site’s search forms based on previously searched strings. The module saves keyword strings entered in search forms and increments a counter for the strings on subsequent searches. It then populates an autocomplete on search forms from these saved keyword strings in order of the most searched keywords to the least.
For: Drupal 5.
Lhmdesign has an excellent write-up on how the website was redesigned with Drupal with great tips for bloggers using Drupal. A couple of tips I found extremely useful:
In the first part, we learned to setup comments, categories, and the basics for blogging with Drupal. Now we install the modules that make Drupal a powerful blogging tool.
URL: http://< path to drupal website >/?q=admin/build/modules
Drupal’s powers become manifold with its diverse modules. For blogging, these are the most important ones:
Drupal is a Content Management System - which means blogging is just a small cog of the big wheel of Drupal. This does make Drupal harder to use for blogging (as compared to Wordpress), but with these modules and settings Drupal can be a very good blog workhorse. In fact, it runs this blog too!
Download and set up Drupal 5.0 while following the installation instructions.