Comments on: Initial thoughts on Drupal as Primary Blogging Platform http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/ apparently much happier in person Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:39:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81858 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81858 D'Arcy- I love that you are making this switch- and finding the differences- I've added the popstats plug-in on all my clients blogs- not a real stat package- but somewhat helpful. The new comments in drupal- there's a wordpress plugin to do that too- I give it about a week before you want to switch back... :-) So- question- why don't you build a drupal site- with a wordpress section- I realize the search wouldn't work through both sites- but- unless you add a bunch of users to your drupal install- the banter that we've all come to love - will be gone so quickly. Some of this makes me wonder what's coming in Wordpress 2.1- anyway- keep digging for tools in drupal. We're playing with a Drupal install for our hosting site- and one thing that's wierd about it- no where could we find any indication of what version we had installed (Fantastico install script) turns out it was 4.6- thanks again for being the crash test dummy- David D’Arcy-
I love that you are making this switch- and finding the differences-
I’ve added the popstats plug-in on all my clients blogs- not a real stat package- but somewhat helpful.
The new comments in drupal- there’s a wordpress plugin to do that too-
I give it about a week before you want to switch back… :-)
So- question- why don’t you build a drupal site- with a wordpress section-
I realize the search wouldn’t work through both sites- but- unless you add a bunch of users to your drupal install- the banter that we’ve all come to love – will be gone so quickly.
Some of this makes me wonder what’s coming in Wordpress 2.1-
anyway- keep digging for tools in drupal.
We’re playing with a Drupal install for our hosting site- and one thing that’s wierd about it- no where could we find any indication of what version we had installed (Fantastico install script) turns out it was 4.6-
thanks again for being the crash test dummy-

David

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81862 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81862 <p>David - it's entirely possible I'll want to switch back. I guess the nontrivial migration path to wordpress might make me figure stuff out in Drupal, though...</p><p>As for the separate drupal-and-wordpress sites... I was aiming to simplify. I was already running separate WP and Drupal sites (drupal.darcynorman.net had been running for awhile - it's dead now) but it just made sense to consolidate. I'm also running a mediawiki installation, and may look at nuking that and rolling it all into Drupal...</p><p>I'm looking forward to WP 2.1 as well, and Drupal 4.8. The arms race is on - bottom line, though, is that any of these tools are good enough. I think I'll try to stay put for a round or two of the CMS Wars... </p> David – it's entirely possible I'll want to switch back. I guess the nontrivial migration path to wordpress might make me figure stuff out in Drupal, though…

As for the separate drupal-and-wordpress sites… I was aiming to simplify. I was already running separate WP and Drupal sites (drupal.darcynorman.net had been running for awhile – it's dead now) but it just made sense to consolidate. I'm also running a mediawiki installation, and may look at nuking that and rolling it all into Drupal…

I'm looking forward to WP 2.1 as well, and Drupal 4.8. The arms race is on – bottom line, though, is that any of these tools are good enough. I think I'll try to stay put for a round or two of the CMS Wars…

]]> By: David Esrati http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81863 David Esrati Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81863 Hi D'Arcy- testing the comment set-up. It seems to work- however- without subscribe to comment- this is a huge step backwards. My dillemma is do I give a client a simple way to manage a site- WordPress- knowing they may use it more- or give them more bells and whistles- Drupal- and risk not having them maintain. You don't know how hard it is to get them to understand categories, and why their home page shouldn't be static- they are all so conditioned to Internet 1.5 thanks again- Hi D’Arcy-
testing the comment set-up.
It seems to work- however- without subscribe to comment- this is a huge step backwards. My dillemma is do I give a client a simple way to manage a site- WordPress- knowing they may use it more- or give them more bells and whistles- Drupal- and risk not having them maintain. You don’t know how hard it is to get them to understand categories, and why their home page shouldn’t be static- they are all so conditioned to Internet 1.5
thanks again-

]]> By: Christopher Harris http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81864 Christopher Harris Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81864 Congrats on a switchover! I love Drupal and am looking forward to getting my personal site up and running to complement the 6 or so I run at work. Definately check out the book review module. VERY cool that one! Are you running 4.7? I have been trying (And failing) to get K2 theme to work. It refuses to show any sidebar stuff for me. Grabbed the one from the CVS like it suggeted, but no blocks are displaying. Did it just kind of work for you? Ugh...forced preview =) Congrats on a switchover! I love Drupal and am looking forward to getting my personal site up and running to complement the 6 or so I run at work. Definately check out the book review module. VERY cool that one!

Are you running 4.7? I have been trying (And failing) to get K2 theme to work. It refuses to show any sidebar stuff for me. Grabbed the one from the CVS like it suggeted, but no blocks are displaying. Did it just kind of work for you?

Ugh…forced preview =)

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81865 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81865 <p>Christopher - I'm running Drupal 4.7.0 with an ever-so-slightly-modified K2 ttheme. Make sure blocks go into the right sidebar. Even though K2 claims to support a left sidebar, it isn't rendered. Silly. A minor edit to the theme's template.php file would fix that, though.</p><p>Sorry for the forced preview for posting comments - until I find a suitable replacement for Spam Karma 2 and/or Akismet, I can't just leave anonymous comments enabled with nothing to prevent automated abuse. Sorry! Working on it... </p> Christopher – I'm running Drupal 4.7.0 with an ever-so-slightly-modified K2 ttheme. Make sure blocks go into the right sidebar. Even though K2 claims to support a left sidebar, it isn't rendered. Silly. A minor edit to the theme's template.php file would fix that, though.

Sorry for the forced preview for posting comments – until I find a suitable replacement for Spam Karma 2 and/or Akismet, I can't just leave anonymous comments enabled with nothing to prevent automated abuse. Sorry! Working on it…

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81866 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81866 David - I totally agree about the step backwards. Email subscription to comments makes it so much easier (or possible, even) to keep conversations alive on a blog post. It's even worse, since CoComment isn't supported at the moment, either. I'm going to be working on finding/making a solution for that in the next few days (weeks?). David – I totally agree about the step backwards. Email subscription to comments makes it so much easier (or possible, even) to keep conversations alive on a blog post. It's even worse, since CoComment isn't supported at the moment, either. I'm going to be working on finding/making a solution for that in the next few days (weeks?).

]]> By: Cole http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81867 Cole Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81867 Whoa ... nice. I will be watching this progress as I was talking to a <a href="http://chrismillet.com/">friend</a> of mine who has just gone to drupal for his blog/site about maybe making the switch myself. It looks great too. I have also had trouble getting K2 to work in Drupal ... any thoughts on telling us how you got it working so nicely? Whoa … nice. I will be watching this progress as I was talking to a friend of mine who has just gone to drupal for his blog/site about maybe making the switch myself. It looks great too. I have also had trouble getting K2 to work in Drupal … any thoughts on telling us how you got it working so nicely?

]]> By: Sami Khan http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81868 Sami Khan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81868 I have released a fork of the K2 theme on my site. It's cleaner than the original and doesn't break under IE. http://www.samikhan.org/2006/05/21/k2-theme-fork I have released a fork of the K2 theme on my site. It’s cleaner than the original and doesn’t break under IE. http://www.samikhan.org/2006/05/21/k2-theme-fork

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81869 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81869 Sami, thanks for sharing your port. It works much better - and the "edit content" link works! I just dropped my style.css from my other version of K2, and it Just Worked™<br /> Sami, thanks for sharing your port. It works much better – and the "edit content" link works! I just dropped my style.css from my other version of K2, and it Just Worked™

]]> By: Sami Khan http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/20/initial-thoughts-on-drupal-as-primary-blogging-platform/#comment-81870 Sami Khan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 320425819#comment-81870 I will be also releasing a Drupal version of the Papillon theme for Wordpress. I have already forked it for a new site and I have gotten the author to license it under GPL. Yay! Stay tuned! The <a href="http://www.lukaret.com/gallery/v/wp-themes/papillon.jpg.html"> screenshot of its Wordpress version is here</a> and it will be posted on my site and then put into Drupal.org. <a href="http://www.samikhan.org/2006/05/21/k2-theme-fork">K2 is here</a> since the URL filter above doesn't seem to be working.. D'Arcy you're welcome, everyone else you're welcome to join the cult of Drupal :P and as D'Arcy said early today Ohmmmm Druuuuuupalllllll... I will be also releasing a Drupal version of the Papillon theme for Wordpress. I have already forked it for a new site and I have gotten the author to license it under GPL. Yay! Stay tuned! The screenshot of its Wordpress version is here and it will be posted on my site and then put into Drupal.org. K2 is here since the URL filter above doesn’t seem to be working.. D’Arcy you’re welcome, everyone else you’re welcome to join the cult of Drupal :P and as D’Arcy said early today Ohmmmm Druuuuuupalllllll…

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