Posted by masakmaeda on January 18, 2012 at 12:57am
Hi,
Getting started with Drupal. Using Drupal 7 started traslating some pages and noticed that each page I translate is generating a blog entry. Has anybody experienced that? How can I stop my translated pages from showing on the blog?
Thanks.
Masa
Comments
Is it possible that you have
Is it possible that you have that content type set to "Promote to front page" and your "blog" is on your front page, thus it looks like every translated paged is showing up there?
Go to the content type settings and see if the "Promote to front page" box is checked for that content type.
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Protion to front page is not the problem
Hi Nowarninglabel
Good comment from your part. The problem, however, is not promotion to front page since I already make sure this doesn't happen.
Investigating further I noticed that the issue is not with translated content only but with any new content I add, be it an article, a basic page or a blog entry. What I want is for blog entries to be the only content added to the blog. I also noticed that if I go to the blog and attempt to delete the blog entry actually deletes the page created.
I have looked for a setting or other to disable that behavior but have failed to figure it out. I am new to Drupal so maybe the solution is trivial but not so easy to find.
Thanks in advance
Masa
Blog page
So, just to be clear, you are seeing many content types showing up at /blog. Yes? I'm assuming you are using the blog module, yes?
Which version of drupal are you using? What i18n-related modules do you have installed? Are you translating with the Content translation module or the Entity translation module or both?
Providing more information is important in order to see what might be going on.
Kristen
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Hi Kristen, I am using Drupal
Hi Kristen,
I am using Drupal 7
What I noticed and commented on my previous reply is that this is happening not only with translations so the problem is actually not related to i18n modules. The problem seems to be with the blog module settings because it generates a new blog posting every time I create a new Basic or a new Article page, be directly or through i18n.
Masa
What IS your blog?
Drupal doesn't create multiple copies of the same text, so something appearing in your blog doesn't mean that creating content is also creating a blog entry. What you're referring to as your blog is simply a list of content inside Drupal.
What's happening here is that your list isn't being filtered the way you expect. Rather than showing only the original node and only the blog content type, it's showing everything.
This is not the behaviour of the blog module, so I suspect you're generating the list of content you call the blog in a different manner. Is your blog perhaps a View created with the Views module? If so, you'll want to set the View filters to only show the blog content type and the original content.
Exactly
Yes, exactly what I was thinking... that's why I asked if he was using the blog module... sounds like a page generated from views that hasn't been filtered properly.
Kristen
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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://www.kristen.org/book
How i created the blog
Hi again Kristen
From your comment seems then that I created something I call a blog in a way that is not the actual Drupal blog. The way I created t it was
- Structure > Views > Add new view
Show: Content
View name : Blog
Type : Blog entry
Create block : yes (but I am currently hiding it )
Create Menu item : yes
My understanding has been that by specifying Blog Type drupal would automatically set it up as such but maybe there something I should've done differently? Or the way to create a blog is entirely different?
Thanks
Blog and views
If you enable the blog module, you get a "blog" page for free. It has the blog posts on it.
If you want more configuration, then you can create a view like you did. You say you have the blog entry type set, so it seems strange that it is not working. Hard to say without really seeing the settings.
My suggestion is to update the view so that the page it is using is something like "blog-test" or something other than "blog". Then you can go to your built-in "blog" page (e.g.
example.com/blog) and see if it is sufficient for your needs. If it's not, then you can take a screenshot of you views settings for the blog-test page and post a screenshot of the settings and the page that isn't working.Good luck,
Kristen
Contact: https://www.hook42.com/contact
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://www.kristen.org/book
The way i created the blog is
Hi akalsey
From your comment seems then that I created something I call a blog in a way that is not the actual Drupal blog. The way I created t it was
- Structure > Views > Add new view
Show: Content
View name : Blog
Type : Blog entry
Create block : yes (but I am currently hiding it )
Create Menu item : yes
My understanding has been that by specifying Blog Type drupal would automatically set it up as such but maybe there something I should've done differently? Or the way to create a blog is entirely different?
Thanks
See above
I posted a response to your duplicate comment above.
Kristen
Contact: https://www.hook42.com/contact
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://www.kristen.org/book
on hold for a while
Thanks to all for your replies. I am traveling for business and cannot work on a fix for now. I'll get back to you when I revisit the issue (and have hopefully fixed it).
Thanks
Masa