How to get NewsWire in the Right sidebar
Hello to the community,
I'm a total newbie to Drupal even though I spent last few days reading a lot of documentation and the whole long day installing it and familiarizing myself with controls.
What I have in mind to create is a dynamic Community website for left-wing and radical-democracy activists and intellectuals to come together regarddless of which camp they come from. An important feature of that the NEWSWIRE similar to what Indymedia websites traditionally have on their right side-bar.
The idea is that anybody (even the unregistered users) can come from anywhere in the world and post their article (there will, of course, be moderation against racist and fascist articles). And I want this NEWSWIRE (titles of the article) to go to the right sidebar. The format that I have chosen for the newswire is STORY
Now I have been trying to get this thing working for the whole day and I can't make sense of how to accomplish this???
Putting "recent posts" to the sidebar is not a solution because it puts Blog entries, while I want the registered useres to have their own blogs. And I don't want the blog entries (which are going to be more analytical and columnist and feature article, rather then just news) to get mixed with the NewsWire.
At the same time I want the interface for the unregistered contributors to be as user-friendly and minimalist as possible: "Title" and "Body" (with basic font formating and file uploading features), and no extra complicated options.
I have looked at the Indymedia documentation on how they achive this through Drupal, but I can't get my head around it.
Please help!
This NewsWire sidebar is one of the reasons why I decided to choose Drupal.
I would apreciate any help I can get.
Bunch of thanks in advance
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two choices;
create a block with your MySQL querry and php code, or use the views.module
could you please
could you please elaborate?
The idea is to allow the non-registered users to be able to create only one form of content called "news_wire" (which is based on "story"). How do I get the titles of those stories be displayed in the sidebar?
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create your newswire content type with the CCK.module (rather then using the story.module) CCK is short for Content Creation Kit.
list your new content type (newswire) in a block by writen a custom SQL query or by using the views.module both modules mentioned above can be found in the downloads area.
documentation for both modules can be found in the handbook under contrib modules. see: http://drupal.org/handbook/config/contribmodules
specific views link: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/views
specific CCK link: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/cck
if you really want to use the story content type, that is fine, however, you will have to custom code a block, or use the views.module to help you build the query to pull the titles into a block.
And post your message only once
This request is out here three times.
sorry - my browser crashed
Appolodies for double posting, my browser crashed when I pressed Submit.
(Luckyly I have a habbit of copying the text before posting it as comments or in forums)
hi there, I am currently
hi there,
I am currently working on an indymedia site :)
The best thing to do is to create a taxonomy block ;) ... all you have to do is to create a new content type named Newswire or whatever you want it and then make a category named newswire with only one term called Newswire , the herarchy of the category must be single and required ;) ....
then just go to taxonomy blocks and add the taxonomy ...
then a new block will appear in the blocks section you'll need just to enable that ;)
I'm wondering what the
I'm wondering what the pros/cons are to the two methods for content creation/placement that are offered here....the the by misunderstood and the other by il-p2p.
Anyone out there who could shed some light?
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if the other poster is referring to the taxonomy_block module it's probably just a matter of preference. However, views is a far more useful and flexible module than taxonomy_block which only does one thing. You'll probably find yourself wanting to use views at one time or another anyway, so why bother with such a single purpose module?
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