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.

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

Help a Newbie Understand Panels?

Posted by ithacaindy on February 27, 2012 at 3:29pm

I like the demos of what can be accomplished with Panels. The details, however - which include lots of coding - don't seem to fit the promise of a drag-and-drop interface. For instance, I create a panel, but can't view it with the URL I provided. Also, I create a node panel (to adjust the layout of how an article displays), yet the panel appears in the default "content" position of my theme, creating in effect, a node within a node.

Are there any hand-holding tutorials out there to explain the basics of Panels?

Image Captions with Drupal 7 and Views 3?

Posted by ithacaindy on February 23, 2012 at 11:29pm

I'm having a heckuva time understanding how to display captions with Drupal 7 and Views 3. I'm using the default imagfield with the title as the caption. However, when I go into Views 3, I can display only the full content or teasers - no mention of the imagefield's title.

I know this is a constant issue - how are other publishers handling this - and is there a 'recipe' available?

Realname in user profile reverts to user name

Posted by pkchoo on February 23, 2012 at 10:56pm

Hello, I was hoping that someone here might have encountered what I'm dealing with and maybe have a solution, or explanation? I submitted my question to the issue queue, but have not received any response whatsoever, so I figured I try here.

I'm using the Realname module for a Drupal 7 site. Basically, to display a user's full name instead of their user name (Joe Choo instead of jchoo) on their profile page. I am using Display Suite to handle the layout of the user profile page.

Fullcourt.com, focusing on women's basketball

Posted by yelvington on February 19, 2012 at 7:08pm

I don't do a lot of outside work these days -- I'm pretty busy in my job with the Morris Publishing Group -- but awhile back I was approached to do some consulting for a project funded by J-Lab at American University.

Kelly Kline of Atlanta had a small grant to build a women's basketball website that would unite a couple of existing projects and take it all to a new level. The result launched in the middle of last week: http://www.fullcourt.com/

Schema for News articles?

Posted by aendra on January 22, 2012 at 1:23pm

Hi everyone!

I'm building a newspaper website and am trying to use best practices with regards to metadata and semantic web.

To this end, I'm thinking it makes sense to use some sort of semantic web schema for articles. I've found two:

Open Graph protocol -- http://ogp.me/ (Facebook-based)
rNews -- http://dev.iptc.org/rNews (IPTC)

Newspaper taxonomy best practices

Posted by TPerkins on January 20, 2012 at 6:01pm

As newspapers, we are taxonomy nuts. Surprisingly, there isn't any documented best practices for how to form and use a taxonomy tree.

I am in the early phase of deciding on a main taxonomy tree for 6 newspapers and would be very interested in knowing how others run things.

Some questions:

Did your main taxonomy start from a pre-made tree? Associated Press offers one but are there others?
Do you include geographical information (State, Region, City) in your main taxonomy tree or do you rely on a set of address fields.

Using OpenPublish for a newspaper site and finding a UK host

Posted by Num85 on January 10, 2012 at 3:45pm

I'm looking to set up a newspaper site using OpenPublish, the theme of the site is a user generated news site. I'm a bit confused on how to go about it and was looking for some help.
Firstly does anyone know of a good UK based host which supports OpenPublish installations? I'm looking for one with servers in the U.K.
Secondly the site I'm setting up will have a advertising revenue sharing program and was wondering if anyone knew if OpenPublish supports this - do I have to install other modules to get this to work?

Using the default theme can't get content into 2nd column.

Posted by shoconnor on January 6, 2012 at 6:36pm

Can anyone explain better than the docs at Openpublish how to publish content into the 2nd column. I can't seem to wrap my mind around it using the context inspector.
The site is on a test server at http://anthemnews4.ittybittywebco.com

Access Denied, You are not authorized to access this page

Posted by jolly guy on January 5, 2012 at 9:28am

I am going crazy because of this problem ... Become and you get a lot for no reason ...
I have this problem since several months have been circumvented by deleting www .... Noted after several days of normal operation of the website ... But in recent days has become a continuously and, more disturbingly ... when I add new node or edit node ... I normally logged I can add the node and after that I have to log-in again
I have had this problem and prevented me from entering the admin panel until I updated to latest version 6.22 but still happened to me

Regards,

Nodequeue type module for users?

Posted by pkchoo on December 23, 2011 at 8:18am

Hopefully, this is a really simple question.

I attempted to create a nodequeue to organize users in Drupal 7, but I didn't see "users" as one of the available content types (obviously because it's 'node'queue). Thinking back, I suppose I used 'content profile' in Drupal 6 in conjunction with nodequeue to control users.

How do I accomplish the same thing in Drupal 7? I want to be able to create a queue of coaches (users) and organize them in a specific order.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Joe

Byline Taxonomy

Posted by firstamendrulez on December 14, 2011 at 9:52am

After trying CCK for our bylines, I decided to make a taxonomy term for authors instead. I want readers to be able to click on bylines that lead to a taxonomy page with all of the author's published stories.

My set-up looks something like this:

<?php
 if ($node->taxonomy[xx]) { 
?>

<?php
 print $node->taxonomy[xx]->name 
?>

Advertising as content

Posted by yelvington on November 28, 2011 at 6:45pm

You might be interested in http://giftguide.savannahnow.com, which Chris White (fyrebear) built on our Drupal-based Morris Site Management System, using the Domain Access module.

Traditionally the Savannah Morning News has published a print gift guide every holiday season. This project aims to recraft the concept as a Web-centric local shopping information service. The aim is to get people into local stores, not provide e-commerce, so there's no e-commerce back end.

Making Money on Newspaper Sites

Posted by Pica on November 3, 2011 at 4:51pm

For 10 years I've helped small daily and weekly newspapers have successful websites, (400?) I have helped those clients with the software, but the main part of my consulting was the revenue - how the newspaper leveraged their traffic for income.
I have worked with the largest software development companies in the US newspaper industry. Recently I have decided the future is Open Source for smaller newspapers, my niche.

How to filter by team and gender?

Posted by pkchoo on October 31, 2011 at 8:12am

I know I'm going to kick myself when I get the answer, but for some reason I can't get this to work.

I'm creating a view for a list of sports teams.

I'm able to create the listing fine, where all the teams members show up, but when I try to filter it also by gender, only the team title shows up.

I have a team content type with user references to populate the players. The view is grouped by the team title with a listing of the users and their attributes.

Just moved site from subdirectory to root, but the admin menus still link to subdirectory

Posted by pkchoo on October 28, 2011 at 7:22am

Hello,

I successfully moved my site from dev to the root and everything is working great! The only issue I'm encountering is that the admin menu keeps taking me back to www.mysite.com/dev/admin, instead of keeping me at www.mysite.com/admin.

I know I'm missing something obvious. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

How to create a back to view button from node?

Posted by pkchoo on October 22, 2011 at 2:55am

Hello,

I have a pretty standard view that lists a bunch of node teasers, which when clicked, goes to the node page.

Obviously, the user can click the browser back button or the menu link for the view, but, it would be a better user experience to have a back link at the end of the node that takes the user back to the view.

Is there some standard method of doing that in Drupal. Do i just create a field for the node that links back to the view? I'm working D7.

Thank you.

moved from localhost online in a subdirectory, images not showing

Posted by pkchoo on October 20, 2011 at 4:33am

Hello, I went searching online but couldn't find a clear answer.

I've been developing a site locally and moved it into a subdirectory online (www.mydomain.com/dev) while I continue to test things. Everything is working fine except the images. I've changed the media>files settings to point to the correct directory (sites/default/files), but the images are still not displaying.

Can someone help me with this?

Thank you.

Getting editorial content to Drupal?

Posted by Anonymous on October 17, 2011 at 2:45am

Hi all, great group here, I'm learning a lot.

I'm not a web developer, but I've got a bit of Drupal experience and am trying to facilitate a changeover from the current, old-school CMS we have at a small English-language newspaper in Taiwan. My main point of confusion is how to get the editorial content we are working with into Drupal.

How do I keep search engines from indexing dev URL?

Posted by pkchoo on October 12, 2011 at 4:10pm

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me with a question I have with search engine indexing.

I was doing a search recently for a site I built, so I put the words "nuggucciet cellars" in to perform the search and the 3rd and 4th results are references to the site, but using the development URL (the URL that was being used before the domain name was pointed to hosting).

Obviously, if I type in the domain name fully "nugguccietcellars.com" it finds the site correctly.

How do I keep Google (or any search engine) from displaying the development URL (nuggucci.www65.a2hosting.com/)?

Photo Essay

Posted by ejohns on October 11, 2011 at 3:11pm

Hey -

I am looking at setting up a way for my newspaper site to handle "photo essays" or articles that are simply a collection of still photos.

I have played with Views and the Views Slideshow module and achieved the desired end result, however that will work for a one-time configuration. I am looking for a solution that will support multiple "photo essays" that are added on the fly to the site...

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

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