Newspapers on Drupal

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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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Katrina B's picture

Creating a mass scheduled update to next Workflow status?

Is there a way to "mass update" or "bulk update" more than one item in Workflow to a new status ... on a scheduled date and time?

I have seen View Bulk Operations mentioned as a way to mass update the Workflow status of items; the only problem with that approach is that the change is executed immediately. I need to be able to set the date and time of the change, rather than having the status of the items changed immediately.

Any suggestions?

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cntlscrut's picture

New version of the Context Ad Serving and Analytics (CASAA) has been released.

CASAA v6.x-1.10-beta2 has been released.

http://drupal.org/node/727138

This release contains many fixes but, mainly it contains the fix for the Yahoo! APT module allowing ad slots to individually selected per tagging/mapping setting. This fix addresses the issue with ads being over-scheduled thus not allowing certain campaigns to not show.

For more information on all included fixes with the apt plug-in and the core module, itself please refer to the above link.

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pkcho's picture

My audio emfield is not showing up to be mapped in Feed API

I'm trying to import a podcast using Feed API. I'm pretty sure I have all of the right modules activated. The Audio node type in Open Publish is using Emfield so it should receive audio from Feed API.

I created the FEED, input the URL, deselected "refresh feed on creation", select PROCESSORS and make the "node type of feed item:" = AUDIO.

When I attempt to MAP the parsed feed to my AUDIO node it shows me what it has found in the feed (including the mp3), but does not allow me to map to the audio emfield.

In the Description of Available Mappers, it only shows:

(node module)

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Adam S's picture

A short demonstration of Openpublish 1.7 at Miami Drupal Meetup hosted by the Knight Foundation

Robertson Adams who does the communications and the website for the Knight Foundation (http://knightfoundation.org/home/) hosted a Dupal meetup tonight at the Knight Foundation office in downtown Miami. There were about twelve people or so in attendance and I had great opportunity to give a very brief demonstration of OpenPublish and OP 1.7 (with the Admin 2 module installed) to the group.

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ruuz's picture

Starters tips required

Hello,

I am a PHP developer and now I am onto drupal.

Basically the requirements are simple. I need to create a newspaper website.

I checked the list of modules that are used in newspaper site and that was a great help. Thanks for posting things like that and making life bit easier for us new comers.

I would just like to know one more thing. If I am developing a custom theme then can anyone suggest me a good starting point. If it has some elements that are suitable for newspaper site then it would be great as I can also see how the things work in themes department.

Thanking You.

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AXcess News's picture

Looking for Drupal theme developer

We are looking for someone who can create a drupal theme from three html template pages to replace our news network sites. Anyone interested, please contact me at editor [at] axcessnews.com

Eric Stevenson - Knoxville, TN

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Amazon's picture

Leveraging Drupal for your business Drupalcon session submissions close tomorrow

Tomorrow is the last day to submit your session for the Leveraging Drupal for your business track!

We're looking for engaging presenters with deep experiences in leveraging Drupal for marketing and business. We'd like to see:

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Katrina B's picture

Creating a site map?

Any suggestions on how to create a site map? I tried the Site Map module and didn't like it; it doesn't offer as much functionality as I'd like. It's fine for creating taxonomy lists -- but left out are all the pages and sections that aren't tied to taxonomy terms. Not to mention, I"d like to be able to rename some of the category headings (what our back-end interface calls them and what I want an end user to see might be two different things).

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dano's picture

Can Small Town News make money on National Ads?

I would be interested to know if any of y'all out there have had experience hosting Ads from outside sources (not Ads sold in house).

We get about 3500 unique visitors a day. They don't click on Ads hardly at all though. Is there any substantial revenue potential for hosting outside Ads on a site like like ours?

Our Ad sales lady does a bang up job of keeping our pages full of local Ads but I am wondering if we are leaving money on the table by only hosting Ads we sell ourselves.

Thanks!

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choloepus's picture

CASAA and Yahoo APT

Hi,

I'm not sure where to start this discussion here, or on the CASAA's module page.

My problem is, that I can't seem to find a way to have different ad sizes on different pages with the CASAA using apt_plugin. I hope there are some members of the Yahoo!'s Newspaper Consortium here.

Let say we have a following setup:
Homepage - 2 leaderboards, 2 boxads
The rest - 2 leaderboards, 2 skyscrapers

If I define all 6 ads in the Global settings of the plugin, I can see all the ads/blocks being available, but the yld_mgr init code in the

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Katrina B's picture

Any simple way to duplicate "Top Ads" in Drupal?

I'm nearly a month into the redesign for a small daily newspaper. There are a few advertisers that currently use the TopAds module on our current Town News site: http://www.townnews.com/solutions/top_ads_module/

Is there any (simple!) way to offer them a similar functionality in Drupal?

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morisy's picture

Alternatives to "Comment block" for moving comments

I feel like this should be a basic bit, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to move comments around in a theme.

Comment Block does essentially what I want, but I'd rather due it in the theme and on a per-node-type basis, rather than across the site and via blocks.

Is it in node.tpl.php? Tried Googling around but still couldn't find anything.

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AndyF's picture

Browsing, insertion, creation of images in wysiwyg editor - the present and future

What's the best way, now and for the future, to insert images which are nodes into an article with a wysiwyg editor, allowing both browsing and uploading within the editor? Ideally the image browser is a view, the image content type is my homemade beast, the upload form is just a node creation form, and video (well ideally any asset) could be inserted in the same way. I'd also like to be able to pull any necessary data (eg copyright) from the image node.

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Katrina B's picture

Any experience with Views Ticker for Drupal 6?

Anyone here have experience using Views Ticker for Drupal 6? I realize there's no official release; I'm using what I found here: http://drupal.org/node/260090#comment-1500520

And I've run into an odd problem. I'm using the horizontal scroll; I've gotten it to work correctly in Internet Explorer and Safari. But in Firefox, the items print on top of each other instead of appearing in sequence.

I am at a loss as to how to fix this; any ideas?

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pkcho's picture

Problem: no "add photo" link shows up in Gallery node

I'm trying to build the photo gallery that Jeff Eaton created in his video "Photo galleries with Views Attach". For some reason, I can't seem to get the "add photo" link to show up when using Node Reference URL.

Is any one familiar enough with this to tell me what I might be doing wrong?

Thank you.

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pkcho's picture

Help with setting permission for a contributor

I know that this is a moving target depending on what modules I have installed, but with this in consideration, I can't seem to get the permission right for the "contributor" role on my website.

I've filtered through the permissions setting for the "contributor" role at least 5 times, but can't get it right, also due to the fact that I am not familiar enough with what each permission setting allows.

I want the "contributor" role to only create blogs and articles, which then waits for approval (using the Workflow module) by the editors.

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pazzypunk's picture

iAtom feeds for AP Content Enrichment program

Hey all,

Have any of you worked on developing an iAtom feed for the AP Content Enrichment program discount? I believe that the feeds have to be in a specific format, though I'm not sure if the atom module (http://drupal.org/project/atom) will take care of it.

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Mediacurrent's picture

ADUG Meetup - Major Announcement (Tues, Feb 9th)

Start: 
2010-02-09 06:30 - 08:30 UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Wow, Phase2 coming to Atlanta for February, 9th Meetup!

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pkcho's picture

I can't seem to find why a specific user profile is seeing dupicate content

For some reason, users on my site with the "Author" profile have content showing up twice. All of the other profiles, including "anonymous" are seeing things normally.

I know there are probably many things involved. I went through the permissions a number of times and tried to correct whatever settings I could.

Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening?

I have included a screenshot of what I'm seeing. You will see the Dynamic Display block showing doubles of the same content and the additional content also showing doubles. Only the "article" node type is seen duplicated.

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Adam S's picture

Integrating Drupal news and CRM with advertising workflow.

I've been researching CRM looking at Sales Force, vTiger, CiviCRM, ACT!, and SugarCRM. I'm not asking which one is the best because everybody's needs are different. I just want to know if anybody has had to build a workflow between Drupal and a CRM for a newspaper sales dept.? And, how they did it?

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