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Submitted by herculesksp on Fri, 2009-01-02 04:00
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Hi,

I have a question related to the usage of Drupal to create content. I am basically running 10-15 blogs on various topics and I would like to use a single CMS system to manage them. So I chose Drupal. Now I want to know, whether it makes sense to create different content types for each blog-topic, or just publish everything as stories with appropriate taxonomies? My requirements are as below.

1) I want to have different themes for each blog-topic.
2) I want to have separate blocks for each topic, in the frontpage, which will display the latest 5 posts in that topic.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Best Regards,
Prashanth.

PS: To understand what I am running, you can go to http://www.prashu.com

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OG or multiple sites

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ebrittwebb - Fri, 2009-01-02 05:09

I'd really hate to see you use different content types for each blog. I think there are better ways to go.

You could run a single site and using organic groups, with one group for each topic. I think you can choose a different theme for each topic. As for taxonomy, you could then use OG Vocabulary.


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ideas for 1 and 2

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shrop - Fri, 2009-01-02 15:52
  1. This may help for theming different paths: http://drupal.org/node/104316 - for phptemplate themes.
  2. For #2, you can create a latest 5 posts view for each category and have the view generate a blocks for each category. Then you can display these blocks however your theme allows.

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Yikes!

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pastorjayrich - Tue, 2009-07-28 15:22

I would use the following modules to create this:
CCK
Views (To create a block view for each blog)
Taxonomy
ThemeKey (Allows you to change the theme based on Taxonomy)
Good luck.


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