Newspapers on Drupal

This is a place for people working at newspapers running on - or planning to run on - Drupal to share ideas, problems and solutions.

Help us build resource pages like these:

The Open Source Newspaper
What can Drupal do for my newspaper?
Media sites using Drupal
Modules for newspapers
Learning resources

Pirating of stories: Any way to stop this?

Is there any way to either prevent, or limit, the copying/pirating of stories from a Drupal site?

We've been finding our copyrighted stories plastered all over the Net, many of which are the entire article with not even a courtesy back-link.

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Nodequeue Question

I'd like to implement Nodequeue on our site to compensate for some of what Views2 alone lacks, like cutting down redundancy of stories on our front page, and the ability for our editorial team to better prioritize stories.

As I understand it, you can add an unlimited number of stories to a given Nodequeue, but is there any way to specify a time range for the queue? For example, is it possible to say "I only want to show stories from the last 24 hours in this queue"?

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AP Webfeed Parser

I've mentioned on the group before that I've been working on a parser for FeedAPI (Drupal 6.x) to automate feeding AP Webfeeds into my site.

Well, after working with a developer, I have a working model now. It relies heavily on cck, ctools, eParser, Feed Mapper, and FeedAPI to get the job done, but it does work. It needs further development though.

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Can't seem to remove the "submitted by admin" line

I'm trying to remove the "submitted by admin" line associated with the Gallery Assist node, but can't seem to find how to do that.

I've gone to the theme configuration to attempt to turn it off for various content types, but it doesn't work. I've searched through the page.tpl.php to look for the statements that would write the "submitted by line", but I can't seem to find and affect it.

I have attached a png screenshot showing the page with Devel activated displaying the relevant information.

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add child page link missing from journalist Book

Hi All, I would love some advice on this, I am pulling my hair out.
I created a new book (using the standard book module) that our journalist could maintain, and everything was working fine. They were able to browse to the book when logged in and click on the link that says- "add new child page" to keep adding pages and updates.
From yestarday however, this link to "add new child page" or access printer friendly version has disappeared from the book.

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Organizing and Scheduling Content

I maintain a Drupal newspaper website and we're looking to improve the process for soliciting and publishing articles. The goals are to consolidate the process and make things more efficient for editors and authors to collaborate, as well as to provide some organizational tools to map out when articles will be published over the coming weeks or month.

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Reminder: Northern Virginia Drupal November Meetup Tomorrow night

Start: 
2009-11-04 18:30 - 21:00 UTC
Organizers: 

We will talk about URL shortener, which was recently put to great use on USA.gov.

We'll also have time to talk about anything you are working on, so please bring questions or projects to share.
See you tomorrow night. RSVP or just show up!

Where:

Irelands Four Courts
2051 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201

When:

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
6:30pm - 9:00pm

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How to create "big news"

I would love to know how to do http://www.huffingtonpost.com/big-news/#homepage

Where there are pages under their categories and selected tags, but using panels to do this is very time consuming. How else does one create "big news" pages with drupal without taking hours to set up a page?

Any advice would be great!

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Facebook Connect

The web presence of SpareChangeNews.Net remains, unfortunately, small at best. As a primarily print publication, we've had a hard time getting our writers and editors on board with the website, let alone our readers.

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Trying to migrate a development site to a live site

I'm trying to move my development site to a live site and am following Nicole Bluto's Drupal LA seminar notes on "Migrating a Site from Stage to Live".

I've exported my databased using the Backup and Migrate module.
I created a fresh drupal install on the live site.
I've copied my "sites" folder from the development site into the live site.

At this point she says to create a new database... can I not just import my exported database into the fresh install?

Also, she says to alter the settings.php file at line #92

$db_url='mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';

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Revisions while parent is still 'live'

I've been looking at the Workflow module and like what I see.

However, I can imagine the following scenario:

  • Item goes through normal workflow (author -> editor -> published).
  • Item needs revision.

OK, now I have a problem. The item is live, perhaps in a featured position on the site, yet it needs to be updated, and the update needs to go through an editorial review process.

How do I do that, without having to create a new node? Has anybody crossed this bridge?

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What modules do I need to create a simple video gallery using views?

Sorry for the newbie question.

I need to be able to upload quicktime video to my site and use views to make a gallery.

For whatever reason, I'm trying different combinations of modules to accomplish this but I can't seem to find a way to manipulate the video properly in views to get it into a gallery.

Help!

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Vancouver's First Ever Alfresco Event

Hi everyone,

On November 12th from 6pm-9pm, we will be hosting Vancouver's first ever Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com). Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management system used by EA, Activision and Havard Business Publishing. The system integrates with Drupal via the CMIS interface. In fact the integration modules are already available. However unlike Drupal, it is a repository based system.

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Video ad serving

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to handle video ad serving (i.e. adding things like pre-, mid- and postrolls ads into your videos)?

And, specifically, has anybody integrated the Kaltura Video Module for Drupal (http://corp.kaltura.com/) to handle this kind of thing?

Alternatley has anybody decided that using a third-party like Brightcove (http://www.brightcove.com) or Videoplaza (http://www.videoplaza.com) the best way to go for video ad serving?

Thx,

Geoff

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Trouble finding format to use in Views for video gallery

I'm sure this must be a real simple issue, but for some reason I can't seem to figure it out.

I'm trying to create a simple video gallery using views. I'm using cck, image cache, filefield and the JQ media module to upload video and use it in my video gallery.

When I add my content video_field to field options and proceed to choose a format, all the image cache formats show up, but nothing for video content. When I go to the page with the video gallery view, no videos appear because I can't set a video "format". In my created content, my video shows up, but not in the view.

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Case study: France 24 migration to Drupal 6, a brand new codebase to be open-sourced

France 24 is a public 24/7 international news channel that broadcast in three languages: French, English and Arabic. Its mission is to cover international current events from a French perspective and to convey French values throughout the world. The channel provides keys to understanding ever more complex events through in-depth analysis. France 24 puts also culture at the forefront of its programming.
France24 is part of the AEF ("Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France", French foreign medias), with RFI (a radio station) and TV5 (a TV station).

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Three More Newspapers Migrating to Drupal

Hi all,

I'm leading the conversion of three NC newspapers to Drupal 6, the first of which is The Daily Reflector. With our first big Drupal 5 site completed (to be upgraded to D6 soon) and many lessons learned, I figured it was time to start contributing back in the form of writeups and possible modules with this project.

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Categories for Newspapers

As I said earlier, we have a starting newspaper online.
I was wondering if anyone would share how they do their categories.

Here is how I did ours:

I chose a normal vocab, listed some terms and made the urls to show "section".

Is this the best way to do it? Any tips would be great.

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The simplest way to create rollover image menus in Drupal?

I am trying to find the simplest way to create menus using images that rollover.

I came across the imagemenu module which seems to be for that purpose, but get stuck in the process. The module asks for me to designate a "path" for the files (both original image and rollover), but everything I try does not seem to work. I have it pointing to the file folder set up under "Site Configuration/File system" and I also attempted to put in a URL directly to the file (http://www.....).

If someone is familiar with imagemenu and if that solution would work for me, please help : )

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incorporation

hello, I am building a community site that is mainly a newspaper. I am trying to decide whether to set this up as a c-corporation or an LLC, I was hoping someone on this group had some links they could recommend to sites where i can ask this kind of question. i wonder what most small news sites are under. thanks!

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This is a place for people working at newspapers running on - or planning to run on - Drupal to share ideas, problems and solutions.

Help us build resource pages like these:

The Open Source Newspaper
What can Drupal do for my newspaper?
Media sites using Drupal
Modules for newspapers
Learning resources

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