Showing a List of Blogs in Drupal

When you first set up blogs, the blog link leads to recent blog posts. But, it's handy to be able to see a list of people who have blogs on your site.

Drupal doesn't have such a list available by default, but setting up a page to do it isn't complicated. Here's how to do it:

  1. Log in as Administrator.
  2. Click Create Content > Page.
  3. Give the page a Title. I called mine TCPblogs.
  4. Choose one of these code options and copy and paste it into your page Body field.
  5. Click the arrow next to Input Formats and select PHP code.
  6. You can set the page up with a link right away.
    • Under Menu Settings, put in your Title (which will be the name of the link) and Description (the text the user sees when they hover over the link).
    • Decide where you want the link. If you want it at the top of the page (like I did), choose Primary Links as the Parent item; if you want it along the side, choose Navigation. You can also make it a sublink of another link.
    • Set the order by selecting a weight. See the Primary Links blog entry for more details.
  7. Select any other desired options and click Submit.

    Isn't that slick?

Any way to selectively import content from another blog via RSS? I have my own blog (see my sig) but not all of the info is fit for publishing here (unless TCPers at large are highly interested in beer and homebrewing).

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Bill Swallow
HATT List Owner
WWP-Users List Owner
Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter
STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager
http://techcommdood.blogspot.com

techcommdood | Tue, 11/27/2007 - 09:04

I think one of these would need to be employed on the site for the selective feed import to work.

http://www.oscandy.com/hacking/581-filter-rss-feeds

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Bill Swallow
HATT List Owner
WWP-Users List Owner
Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter
STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager
http://techcommdood.blogspot.com

techcommdood | Tue, 11/27/2007 - 14:06