Pressblog:Documentation

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Content types

Pressblog comes with a build in Content type

Blog post

Of course Pressblog support the rest of drupal's default content types: Story and Page.

Blog post

A blog post, similar in form to a story, is ideal for creating and displaying content that carries images and informs or engages website visitors. Press releases, site announcements, and informal blog entries may all be created with a blog post entry. By default, a blog post entry is automatically featured on the site's initial home page, and provides the ability to post comments. It has the option to be displayed into front page slide show. It provides the ability to attach an image which is automatically adjusted to fit into the websites layout. Blog post enables free tagging (just like labels), taking the taxonomy one step further.

Image handling

Pressblog comes with the ImageCache module pre-configured and ready to be used. Blog Post content types make use of this and produce all necessary thumbnails.

Just set the "Preview image" (read more below in the HowTo section) and Pressblog will use this

Pre-configured Blocks

Pressblog comes with a set of pre-configured ready-to-use blocks:

Latest Articles

This is the block below the front-page slideshow.

This block (view) collects and shows the 4 latest blog posts, which have been marked as Sticky at top of lists on Publishing Options.

In case a blogpost is both marked as Promoted to slideshow and Sticky at top of lists, then it will appear on both regions.

Older Articles

This block (view) collects and presents the latest blogposts and stories (content types) of the website.

Popular, Latest and Comments

Pressblog monitors your posts so that popular and latest posts, as well as your visitors comments are collected into an eye-candy block, with the power of Views.

Latest Articles

This view collects the latest blogposts and stories (content types) of the system. In case the latest article is not accompanied by some image, then the title and the short description underneat will occupy all the available space.

Comments

This view collects the latest comments made on the system’s nodes.

Monthly Archives

With the power of Views, Press Blog provides a ready to use block that counts and summarizes your posts.

Twitter

PressBlog comes with built-in twitter intergration. Enter yout twitter account into the theme’s config setting and voila: a block with your latest tweets is already there.