Blog

The blog module allows registered users to maintain an online journal, or blog. Blogs are made up of individual blog entries, and the blog entries are most often displayed in descending order by creation time.

There is an (optional) Blogs menu item added to the Navigation menu, which displays all blogs available on your site, and a My blog item displaying the current user's blog entries. The Blog entry menu item under Create content allows new blog entries to be created.

Each blog entry is displayed with an automatic link to other blogs created by the same user. By default, blog entries have comments enabled and are automatically promoted to the site front page. The blog module also creates a Recent blog posts block that may be enabled at the blocks administration page.

When using the aggregator module an automatic blog it icon is displayed next to the items in a feed's latest items block. Clicking this icon populates a blog entry with a title (the title of the feed item) and body (a link to the source item on its original site and illustrative content suitable for use in a block quote). Blog authors can use this feature to easily comment on items of interest that appear in aggregator feeds from other sites. To use this feature, be sure to enable the aggregator module, add and configure a feed from another site, and position the feed's latest items block.

For more information, see the online handbook entry for Blog module.