Newspapers on Drupal

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aendrew's picture

Schema for News articles?

Hi everyone!

I'm building a newspaper website and am trying to use best practices with regards to metadata and semantic web.

To this end, I'm thinking it makes sense to use some sort of semantic web schema for articles. I've found two:

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Newspaper taxonomy best practices

As newspapers, we are taxonomy nuts. Surprisingly, there isn't any documented best practices for how to form and use a taxonomy tree.

I am in the early phase of deciding on a main taxonomy tree for 6 newspapers and would be very interested in knowing how others run things.

Some questions:

  • Did your main taxonomy start from a pre-made tree? Associated Press offers one but are there others?

  • Do you include geographical information (State, Region, City) in your main taxonomy tree or do you rely on a set of address fields.

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Using OpenPublish for a newspaper site and finding a UK host

I'm looking to set up a newspaper site using OpenPublish, the theme of the site is a user generated news site. I'm a bit confused on how to go about it and was looking for some help.
Firstly does anyone know of a good UK based host which supports OpenPublish installations? I'm looking for one with servers in the U.K.
Secondly the site I'm setting up will have a advertising revenue sharing program and was wondering if anyone knew if OpenPublish supports this - do I have to install other modules to get this to work?

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Using the default theme can't get content into 2nd column.

Can anyone explain better than the docs at Openpublish how to publish content into the 2nd column. I can't seem to wrap my mind around it using the context inspector.
The site is on a test server at http://anthemnews4.ittybittywebco.com

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jolly guy's picture

Access Denied, You are not authorized to access this page

I am going crazy because of this problem ... Become and you get a lot for no reason ...
I have this problem since several months have been circumvented by deleting www .... Noted after several days of normal operation of the website ... But in recent days has become a continuously and, more disturbingly ... when I add new node or edit node ... I normally logged I can add the node and after that I have to log-in again
I have had this problem and prevented me from entering the admin panel until I updated to latest version 6.22 but still happened to me

Regards,

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Nodequeue type module for users?

Hopefully, this is a really simple question.

I attempted to create a nodequeue to organize users in Drupal 7, but I didn't see "users" as one of the available content types (obviously because it's 'node'queue). Thinking back, I suppose I used 'content profile' in Drupal 6 in conjunction with nodequeue to control users.

How do I accomplish the same thing in Drupal 7? I want to be able to create a queue of coaches (users) and organize them in a specific order.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Joe

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Byline Taxonomy

After trying CCK for our bylines, I decided to make a taxonomy term for authors instead. I want readers to be able to click on bylines that lead to a taxonomy page with all of the author's published stories.

My set-up looks something like this:


<?php
if ($node->taxonomy[xx]) {
?>

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Developer / Drupal Ninja | Demotix.com

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We are Demotix and we are looking for full time developers to become Demotix too!

Demotix (from demos/Δήμος, meaning ‘people’) is a multi-award winning photojournalism website and newswire: www.demotix.com

We've been called "Journalism for the 21st Century" (Telegraph), the HuffingtonPost thinks we "may change the way news is reported", and TechCrunch reckon we're "reinventing the newswire". Another way of describing us is that we're citizen journalism on steroids: truly empowering (and paying for) local story-tellers around the world.

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Advertising as content

You might be interested in http://giftguide.savannahnow.com, which Chris White (fyrebear) built on our Drupal-based Morris Site Management System, using the Domain Access module.

Traditionally the Savannah Morning News has published a print gift guide every holiday season. This project aims to recraft the concept as a Web-centric local shopping information service. The aim is to get people into local stores, not provide e-commerce, so there's no e-commerce back end.

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Making Money on Newspaper Sites

For 10 years I've helped small daily and weekly newspapers have successful websites, (400?) I have helped those clients with the software, but the main part of my consulting was the revenue - how the newspaper leveraged their traffic for income.
I have worked with the largest software development companies in the US newspaper industry. Recently I have decided the future is Open Source for smaller newspapers, my niche.

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How to filter by team and gender?

I know I'm going to kick myself when I get the answer, but for some reason I can't get this to work.

I'm creating a view for a list of sports teams.

I'm able to create the listing fine, where all the teams members show up, but when I try to filter it also by gender, only the team title shows up.

I have a team content type with user references to populate the players. The view is grouped by the team title with a listing of the users and their attributes.

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Just moved site from subdirectory to root, but the admin menus still link to subdirectory

Hello,

I successfully moved my site from dev to the root and everything is working great! The only issue I'm encountering is that the admin menu keeps taking me back to www.mysite.com/dev/admin, instead of keeping me at www.mysite.com/admin.

I know I'm missing something obvious. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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How to create a back to view button from node?

Hello,

I have a pretty standard view that lists a bunch of node teasers, which when clicked, goes to the node page.

Obviously, the user can click the browser back button or the menu link for the view, but, it would be a better user experience to have a back link at the end of the node that takes the user back to the view.

Is there some standard method of doing that in Drupal. Do i just create a field for the node that links back to the view? I'm working D7.

Thank you.

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moved from localhost online in a subdirectory, images not showing

Hello, I went searching online but couldn't find a clear answer.

I've been developing a site locally and moved it into a subdirectory online (www.mydomain.com/dev) while I continue to test things. Everything is working fine except the images. I've changed the media>files settings to point to the correct directory (sites/default/files), but the images are still not displaying.

Can someone help me with this?

Thank you.

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Getting editorial content to Drupal?

Hi all, great group here, I'm learning a lot.

I'm not a web developer, but I've got a bit of Drupal experience and am trying to facilitate a changeover from the current, old-school CMS we have at a small English-language newspaper in Taiwan. My main point of confusion is how to get the editorial content we are working with into Drupal.

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How do I keep search engines from indexing dev URL?

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me with a question I have with search engine indexing.

I was doing a search recently for a site I built, so I put the words "nuggucciet cellars" in to perform the search and the 3rd and 4th results are references to the site, but using the development URL (the URL that was being used before the domain name was pointed to hosting).

Obviously, if I type in the domain name fully "nugguccietcellars.com" it finds the site correctly.

How do I keep Google (or any search engine) from displaying the development URL (nuggucci.www65.a2hosting.com/)?

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Photo Essay

Hey -

I am looking at setting up a way for my newspaper site to handle "photo essays" or articles that are simply a collection of still photos.

I have played with Views and the Views Slideshow module and achieved the desired end result, however that will work for a one-time configuration. I am looking for a solution that will support multiple "photo essays" that are added on the fly to the site...

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

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yelvington's picture

Google Standout

Is anybody working on an implementation of Google's "standout" tag?

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/recognizing-publishers-stando...
http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=191283

Note that it can either be a link or meta tag, which makes me think a minor modification to nodewords for d6 would do the trick.

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What is being written right now?

I am building a news website, but would like to make sure that the journalists are not writing the same articles at the same time. How can i avoid this?
At my old website (not drupal), i made a text box for the journalist to fill in with a short description of the article he was going to write befre being let onto the creation page. In the meantime, other journalist could see in content list that an article was already in process of being written.

Any suggestions?

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Themeing Node Reference Fields

Is there a way to format a node reference field in d6 so that every time it appears it displays not only the title, but a collection of fields from the referenced node? I have a node reference field called field_investigations_reference that is used to reference articles (investigations) so that they can be place on a homepage in a curated way.

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