walkah: Now running Drupal 6 and Views 2
11
Aug
2008
Now running Drupal 6 and Views 2
I finally "re-launched" my blog last night, after tinkering for a few months. I'm now running (at the time of writing) Drupal 6.3. More interesting, however, is that my site is almost entirely powered now by Views 2.
The biggest visible change is the home page. Inspired in part by Dave Shea's lovely blog, I wanted to make my front page shorter. So now, I'm displaying the latest full post, with 9 previous titles only. This is all done with views (using the awesome new "attachment" display type).
The other interesting bit is that I'm using the latest version of twitter module so that the "twitter" block on the right is actually views2 powered as well (and gets cached).
I'm sure I'll keep tweaking, but I dig it. How about you?
posted 8:30am:
James Walker
@BeCircle @timmillwood @JohnAlbin thanks for the reports, guy... the ops guys are looking into it ... I'll let ya know soon :)
1 day 11 hours ago
Very Nice
I need to check out the twitter module. Just began looking at the Views 2 stuff. Looks very good but still finding my feet with it.
Steve
I am really digging view 2
I am really digging view 2 and the twitter module as well, Drupal just gets better and better all the time !
View 2 is great, been using
View 2 is great, been using the twitter module for a little bit now and am just loving it. Drupal is the way to go after using WP for a while let me tell you.
Nice!
I haven't had the chance yet to play with Views 2. But I've been wanting to do something similar for a long time.
Anyways, looks very nice :)
Drupal Core Without Contrib
Hey James,
I moved my site over to Drupal 6 when the alphas were coming out. It required the removal of Views, CCK, and a whole bunch of contrib modules that I was depending on, but the ability to use Drupal 6 very early in the game was worth it. I'll also be able to move over to Drupal 7 core quite early as well. The only contrib modules I'm using now are:
Really looking forward to when the Drupal 7 alphas start coming out. I love your site update! Particularily the new home page design...
Talk to you later, James!
Rob
I agree Disqus is one to
I agree Disqus is one to add.
I need to tidy my blog up a bit, I am currently using Drupal 6.3 and the blog module but I think using CCK and views is a better option.
Be careful
Be careful when upgrading from Drupal 5 as many of the modules are still not available or in alpha releases for Drupal 6.
--
Liz poemas
Thanks Rob... about Disqus
I looked at Disqus a while back.. and then at your module for integration, and one thing I don't like is that ... if I stop using disqus (which I'm apt to do) then I would lose all comments made there... correct?
Or did I miss something when I skimmed through your code?
Also, I might switch to using pingfm.module :-)
Thanks for the Views 2 tip
I had tried to make this effect happen when SteamedPenguin was powered by Drupal 5 and it was a pain.
This time around it was as easy as point, click, save and now I too have me one of them newfangled Web 2.0-looking sites.
Cool. I'm in the process of
Cool. I'm in the process of creating my sight with Drupal 6 right now. It is a long road as I am new to Drupal and PHP and CSS but not html.
I'm glad to hear someone is actually using Drupal 6 with Views for a production site. It makes me trust that it is working great, which is what I assumed it would be once it got out of beta/release candidate. I was looking at doing something similar on my homepage too. This onfirms that I can... now to figure out how.
CCK as well?
Good looking site. I'm curious, are you also using CCK?
Ryan
No CCK... yet
Currently, I'm only using two content types 'blog' and 'page' - both of which are core (title + body) types.
That said, I have some ideas that I might use CCK for in the future...
Background pattern?
I like the layout and the random photos, but maybe a small unobtrusive stripe somewhere in the background to give it a tad more body?
Nice and minimal :)
-nielsbom
It was nice to have a glance
It was nice to have a glance at Views 2.
I'm looking forward to be at the seminar in New Orleans.
Hope to meet you there.
I'm now using Drupal 6.3 and
I'm now using Drupal 6.3 and CCK ;)
It's the best choice I bet!
Drupal has come a long way in
Drupal has come a long way in the past few years. It has become more user friendly as well. What really helps is that there is more and more people offer helpful resources and direction as to how to use Drupal and to get the most out of it.
Drupal is like Joomla to me.
Drupal is like Joomla to me. It's easy and has enough features. Views 2 is fine.
I'm glad to hear someone is
I'm glad to hear someone is actually using Drupal 6 with Views for a production site. It makes me trust that it is working great
Thanks for the
Thanks for the information...I bookmarked your site, and I appreciate your time and effort to make your blog a success!
This information was
This information was fabulous. Your blog looks great. Congratulations!
Re: Drupal 6 and Views 2
Great work and absorbing article! The twitter module I like too. Tools like this make blogs more attractive.
views
i like the twitter module as well.
a lot of what keeps people posting and coming back to blogs are the look
Yahoo! pipes
I want to know how to manage the news feeds will not just be XML, they may also be JSON. The source of those feeds will be sites such as Yahoo Pipes and delicious and various news sites. I want to display these feeds in my Drupal site. To take the data from pipes what module to be ude?
Excellent post, happy
Excellent post, happy holidays
I guess I'm stupid
I have many posts about hour people use views 2 for their front page design, but I'm totally lost on how to setup the view. There is the filters, fields, etc, that I where I'm lost.
I want to create a front page that uses my welcome message (already created as a page) in full view (no teaser) at the top.
Below the welcome message, I want to attach the last 4 nodes created (stories, pages, etc) and each of them have a teaser with the more link.
I have read all I can on how to do this with attachment display in views, but the instructions are fairly general -- for a new person to drupal, I'm completely lost.
Is there any way you could publish how to set up the different criteria (fields, filters,etc) to achieve my goal? If you do help, I'm sure it would be valuable to other beginners.
Thanks