Newspapers on Drupal

Hello Drupal community,

We are new to Drupal development and are developing/migrating and existing bi-lingual newspaper website to Drupal 6. Currently we are stuck with some “major”, at least we think so, problems. I would highly appreciate if the community could lead us into directions to solve any of these problems.

We are using Drupal6 with following modules: CCK, Views, PathAuto, i18n. We have CCK content type named “Article”.

Thanks in advance.

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Hello newspaper experts,

I need your advice...

I've been asked to create a website for a daily printed newspaper in a small country. The budget is tiny, so I'm doing this out of sympathy. I jumped at the project only to save them from the madness of doing it through Wordpress. After all, Drupal proves it's power as the King of CMS precisely through the newspaper sites. But now I'm stuck with a seemingly simple problem:

What is the most optimal and user-friendly way to create daily Editions (Issues) which contain 15-20 articles of that day?

I want to allow people to post classifieds anonymously but then if they register they then get those classifieds associated with their account.

An example workflow

1. User finds my site
2. User posts a job
3. User wants to register
4. User registers
5. User then sees post from before he/she registered in his/her profile/track page.

Has anyone done something like this before.

Hi Group! Since I started working on a newspaper website upgrade two years ago - I've found a lot of good advice around here. So I thought I'd make a write-up on what I've done, as well as pose a question.

My workplace, Fria Tidningar, had a setup with a publishing system called Scoop, and an automatic web export to PHPnuke which was really starting to show its age when I came here 2.5 years ago. The company then published 4 newspapers, today 8, with different premises (4 of the papers are local) - but some shared content.

Hi All

I am trying to create a newspaper site which has various sections. Each section will have its own homepage and select content from each section will be displayed on main home page.

The site will have a standard header with a navigation system where there will be one horizontal bar with main sections and second bar with child menu/ sub sections i.e something like navigation system as given in timesonline.co.uk

Hello all,

I am trying to create a high school newspaper website using Drupal, and the front page design is quite complicated. I am trying to create block-like regions of node teasers (similar to the New York Times) in a 2-column layout in the content column. I can't figure out how to do it. I have seen questions about how to put a block of the most recent posts in a certain category, but I want to put headline node teasers on the front page with different regions based on the taxonomy term. I also need to be able to have staff reporters to easily upload their articles so that these front-page stories can be promoted to the front page. Any ideas? I have attached a very basic design of the front page (without any CCK fields or anything like that). I hope that it helps.

We are looking into creating a secondary site that would be segregated from our principle newspaper website so that we can allow community users to create their own blogs and add comments.

The idea is that in doing so, we can better protect the newspaper's brand.

The question is though, should we do this as a Drupal multi-site configuration, as a standalone Drupal install or, for simplicity, use Wordpress instead?

The Wordpress option is based on the assumption that users are only going to be blogging, but there is a remote possibility that these functions could be extended.

Hi All,
I have just enabled blogging on my D6 site for all registered users who have begun posting. However, as this has started to grow, I have a few issues

1) All approved users can currently create a blog, however is there a way I can have all blog posts go to an approval que (similar to what happens with comments) before they appear on the site? Id love to hear how others control this aspect on their newspaper sites