Multi-user blogging

I'm trying to extend Drupal into a multi-user blogging site comparable to WordpressMU.

I choose Drupal primary because for my love for Drupal and its flexibility but Drupal does have it short coming when trying to tackle WordpressMU.

Also, ultimately I will be hosting a blogging service, using WordpressMU will make me a shadow of Wordpress.com. Going Drupal is a bold move, but I believe a smart move because architecture and design wise, I believe Drupal is far more superior then wordpress.

Hi - As a new Drupal user coming to this group for the first time, I am unable to find introductory information that answers basic questions. For example:

How do I get started using Drupal MU?
When will there be an installation project?

Thanks

Hi,

I've been running a site for young writers with some 3,500 users in Vermont and part of N.H. This site is extremely active.

Skipping detail (explained below), we've seen a community behavior that we think calls out for a siginficant change on the site -- and we need the ability to have users have much more control over their "blogs" -- the ability to set their own visible theme, to control some of the blocks, etc. in other words the features that are seemingly exactly what your project offers. Before we get into testing it though, I have several questions:

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I couldn't find something that exactly fits my recipe, so maybe I can garner some help. I want implement a blog that allows certain members to contribute to it under ONE blog. Basically, how the front page displays stories similiar to a blog, I want to have the same attributes for the blog, but on a different URL as the home page.

I hope that makes sense. Any ideas?

Someone posted a patch today for the long-dormant Blog List module. It generates a page or block with a list of all the blogs on your site (linked, of course).

See http://drupal.org/node/372153. As you'll see, there are a few quirks: the patch didn't apply perfectly to the .info file, and it needs a bit of styling, but it's likely to be very useful for multi-user blog sites.

Cheers,
Andrea

I haven't really thought about this topic for a while, but I was reading over some posts and an idea struck me.

If we really want to create a Drupal-MU setup we need to find a way to do use separate predefined install on the fly when a user signs up. Each install would need to be automated so we would need to write an install script. All blogs can either be put into their own database or prefixed.

We would need to have access to the server to create subdomains automatically.

• API stuff
  1. Pingback because it works.
  2. Trackback legacy, wordpress still use this.
  3. Multiping for marketing.
  4. twitter for marketing.
• User Interface/improvement stuff
  1. Clearly showing that a post will be published
  2. Private posts (only viewable by owner/admin)
  3. Login toboggan to login using e-mail, + general usability improvements.
• Slick stuff

If drupal is to serve as a true multi-user blog, it seems to me that there needs to be a way to create categories which have only an individual scope, not a group or global scope. So for example user A should be able to create categories A,B and C for his/her blog and those categories would be available for editing/adding only to User A and associated only with User A's blog. This is exactly one of the core features of wordpressmu and resultantly wordpress.com.

There are some pieces of DrupalMU that I need to figure out:

1. Allow bloggers to customize their blog title
2. Default About page for each user
3. Multiple authors per blog
4. List of blogs

Has anyone coded these features already?

New module OG Garden looks quite interesting from a multi-user blog point of view.

http://drupal.org/project/og_garden

I have been following Wim's Multi user blogging work with interest for a new blogging site I am working on called "Blog to it". It will allow users to setup new blogs or import an RSS feed from a current blog. These blogs and posts can then be rated and catagorised.

The idea is then that if you have an interest in "Cooking" for example you would look at the cooking section and look for the highes rated blogs whether thay are on Blog to it or feed in via RSS.

Where can I get a copy of the installation profile - even an incomplete copy.
I'm currently making one up for a technical community group.

I just added the Recent Comments block on http://drupalmu.org and I'm wondering if I should include the node title with the comment subject. Drupal doesn't provide this by default and personally I find that it makes the block look really cluttered.

Here are two examples of sites that do provide this information:

• Bevan Rudge: Recent Comments block on the right
• OnSugar: Latest Comments block on the right

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i've been setting up my drupal website recently, and i want it to be as a multi-users blog, everything go well, but i dont know how to design the url... for example, a user has a uid valued '110', and i have two links,one is 'xxx.xxx.com/?q=uid/$arg',another is 'xxx.xxx.com/?q=gallerix/$arg', as far as i know, the menu system can't accept argumets,what i want to ask is when i click 'xxx.xxx.com/?q=uid/110', how does the system change 'xxx.xxx.com/?q=gallerix/$arg' to 'xxx.xxx.com/?q=gallerix/110'.
that's it.maybe i could describe it more clearly.

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Hello, I am in need of someone to do some data entry. Reposting html pages into Drupal. I will have example posts. The categories will exist already. I have about 500 pages. I need 50 per person. Will pay 0.85 per page via paypal. You must reproduce the URLs exactly like it exists on my html website

Thank you for all the offers. This job offer is no longer available.

Hello, I am in need of someone to do some data entry. Reposting html pages into Drupal. I will have example posts. The categories will exist already. I have about 500 pages. I need 50 per person. Will pay 0.85 per page via paypal. You must reproduce the URLs exactly like it exists on my html website

I am very interested in DrupalMU and I am interested in learning from your experiences.
I have been working on an Installation Profile for an out-of-the-box community site (http://www.shareduniverse.net).

So here are some questions that someone might be able to answer.

General

1. What is the status of DrupalMU?

Installation Profiles

1. I think it is characterized not as a contributed module but as an Installation Profile of a bunch of modules. Is that right?
2. If so, is DrupalMU going to be a part of Drupal 6? Drupal 7?

I am very interested in DrupalMU and I am interested in learning from your experiences.
I have been working on an Installation Profile for an out-of-the-box community site (http://www.shareduniverse.net).

So here are some questions that someone might be able to answer.

General

1. What is the status of DrupalMU?

Installation Profiles

1. I think it is characterized not as a contributed module but as an Installation Profile of a bunch of modules. Is that right?
2. If so, is DrupalMU going to be a part of Drupal 6? Drupal 7?

It would be great if we can include about 6 themes. I was thinking for instance about these:

It would be great if we can include about 6 themes. I was thinking for instance about these:

The definition as per wikipedia:

A list of blogs. A blogger features a list of their favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog.

I wonder now what the best way, technically, is to allow each user his/her own blogroll. I'm thinking about a content type "blogroll" with the links module of which the user can only create one. A small module is included that created a block out of this content.

The definition as per wikipedia:

A list of blogs. A blogger features a list of their favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog.

I wonder now what the best way, technically, is to allow each user his/her own blogroll. I'm thinking about a content type "blogroll" with the links module of which the user can only create one. A small module is included that created a block out of this content.

It's very important that DrupalMU ships with a WYSIWYG. If we want to make things as easy as possible, this would mean that using TinyMCE or FCKeditor is out of the question: we can't have our user download an extra package from an external site, put it in a specific location and then do some more configuration.

Update I think I found a perfect candidate for a WYSIWYG shipping with DrupalMU: BUEditor (thanks Michelle!). It requires no extra libraries to be installed, has a teaser break and it integrates with IMCE!

It's very important that DrupalMU ships with a WYSIWYG. If we want to make things as easy as possible, this would mean that using TinyMCE or FCKeditor is out of the question: we can't have our user download an extra package from an external site, put it in a specific location and then do some more configuration.

Update I think I found a perfect candidate for a WYSIWYG shipping with DrupalMU: BUEditor (thanks Michelle!). It requires no extra libraries to be installed, has a teaser break and it integrates with IMCE!