CHAPTER 3 USING (Web hosting packages) THE DRUPAL CORE MODULES
CHAPTER 3 USING THE DRUPAL CORE MODULES Categorizing Feeds The Aggregator module also allows you to categorize your feeds so that they can be grouped by topic or area of interest. To add a feed category, return to the Aggregator s main administration page and click the Add Category tab (admin/aggregator/add/category). Add as many categories as you want. Now, whenever you create a new feed or edit an existing feed, you will be given the chance to categorize the feed based on the categories you just created. Furthermore, the various categories have their own listing pages. Click the news aggregator menu item (Drupal path aggregator), and you will see that the categories now appear as menu items below the news aggregator item. Sometimes, categorizing an entire feed isn t really accurate enough. Perhaps your favorite blog author who usually writes about politics suddenly decides to include a blog post about cooking. Fortunately, Drupal offers a mechanism for categorizing the individual feed items as well: the Categorize tab from any individual feed s page (aggregator/sources/feed_id/categorize). This gives you fine-grained control over which items appear in which categories. Setting Permissions The Aggregator module defines two permissions: Access News Feeds and Administer News Feed. The final step in configuring your news feeds is assigning the appropriate permissions to user roles. As explained in Chapter 2, you set permissions by navigating to administer . access control page (admin/access). Viewing Feeds The Aggregator module provides many different options for viewing the feeds. If you navigate to the block administration page (admin/block), you ll see that every feed and feed category can be shown in a block. Blocks showing feeds offer an additional convenience feature in conjunction with the Blog module. When the Blog module is enabled, feed items in blocks appear with a b: icon next to them. Clicking this icon is a convenient way to create a new blog entry that cites the feed item and provides a link to the original source. This is a very user-friendly feature that encourages your site s bloggers to write about the things they read in the feed items. Once you have configured news sources (feeds), the news aggregator link in the main menu will show a submenu labeled sources (aggregator/sources), which leads to a page where the feed items are grouped by source. If you have categorized your feeds, you ll also see the submenu item categories (aggregator/categories), with the feed items grouped by category. Archive Module The Archive module presents a calendar view of your site s content and a searching mechanism. Days on which content was submitted show as a link to those entries. After you enable the Archive module, you ll see a Calendar to Browse Archives block, which you can configure to show the calendar. The path to any given day in the archive takes the form archive/year/month/day. To see the content from April 23, 2005, for example, use the path archive/2005/4/23.
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