Posted by toursheet on March 26, 2008 at 10:36pm
A Block that builds a list of blogs in the sidebar of the website. (single-profile site).
Maybe have option for (multi-profile) Drupal sites to list their favorite blogs in the sidebar of each users blog (My Account).
Would like to see this built with cck fields. The current blogroll module is out of date (4.6) the SoC project should provide a Drupal 5, 6 version..
A cck field for links and name then creating a block out of each field.
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feels a bit small in scope
I apologize if I am misunderstanding this --
As I understand this, this could be done with cck, the link module, views, some argument handling code, and a block visibility snippet --
No need for much code on this --
Cheers,
Bill
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I agree
This feels more like a DROP task to me than a 3 month project.
Could you brainstorm some more about ideas around this interest that could help flesh it out into a full-blown SoC project?
Drop task
Yeah this does seem light for a SoC.
Quick Brainstorm: I'd go with opening up the idea to a Blog Sidebar Module of some kind. A library of commonly used or popular blocks found in most blogs.
ie:
BlogRoll: Builds a list of blogs in the sidebar of the website and/or user account page.
Email Subscribe: Instead of RSS you can receive email updates by entering your email address in a form.
Reccomended Content: Block in the sidebar with a title 'link' that lets readers know the best stuff, or popular links
About Snippet: Easily put a About Me/Us Block with text description.
Spot Image: Easily add a image/logo to your blog sidebar.
Translate: (This might be available?) A block that list country names/language to translate page.
http://weblogs.about.com/od/partsofablog/tp/SidebarItems.htm
blogroll
Blogroll should be grouped with xfn and foaf for reusable relationships. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/9573.
Current coverage
A lot of these still seem light, and can be done very easily using Blocks or other methods with no code at all (albeit with possibly an extra step or two.) Even if individually they needed some code, I feel like SoC should be more than "do 12 DROP tasks."