Drupal as a blogging platform

With Drupal being highly configurable and scalable, setting up a blog and posting to that blog is very easy to do. By default, the blog module is included and distributed with the latest release of Drupal core. To take advantage of this functionality, all a user needs to do is to download the latest version of core and install it on a web server.

Once Drupal has been installed, a user would need to go to Administer / Modules and then select the blog module and click Save. The page will reload and display the message “Saved Changes” and this means that the module has been installed and is ready to go.

In order to create a blog post in Drupal, follow the following steps

1. Click on Administer / Content

2. Select Create Content

3. Select Blog Entry

4. Enter the title and text that you want to be included within your post.

5. Alter the path settings (customer URL – this is optional).

6. Click Save. Your blog post will now be displayed on the site.

Drupal offers the same blogging functionality as other software available (e.g. WordPress, Blogspot) including most recent posting blocks, categories, tagging and comments. The difference is that with Drupal, every user on your site has the ability to make a blog post which in turn means that there is the functionality available to have multiple blogs contained within the one site.

In conclusion, in deciding on which platform to use, I would definitely recommend looking at the overall requirements of the site and the technical ability of its users. If the site is to have multiple blogs and other functionality, then Drupal is the way to go. If the system is to only have one blog at most then blogging software such as WordPress and Blogspot is fine for this.