By jeffspanos on

I love Drupal thus far- But I am a noob

In my pushbutton theme, in the left column, why do "recent comments" only show when someone is logged in? And the "recent blog posts" from users are not listed at all?

How can I have the recent comments and the recent blog posts always listed- regardless of if someone is logged in or not?

Thanks!

Jeff

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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schwa commented

Two places to go to fix that, I think:

1. Those 'most recent' summaries are in blocks that need to be configured. Go to jeffsdrupalsite/?q=admin/block/configure/comment and you can specify who sees those blocks, on which kind of pages they should be visible, etc. You can choose to allow folks to determine individually whether or not they want to see those blocks, too (might want to check your own account settings to see how you have it configured, if that option is checked.)

2. Make sure unlogged-in viewers can see comments at all, which I think affects whether they can see that 'most recent comments' block to begin with: go to Administer > Access Control and make sure that under 'Comment Module' in the table you have 'access comments' checked for anonymous users.

-- hope that helps a bit.

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jeffspanos commented

that worked for my "Recent Comments" problem- so my problems are 50% solved. thanks!

now, for access control, there is no listing for allowing access to "recent blog posts"- do i have install something for it? i hope i didn't delete something critical.

thank you again :-)

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schwa commented

Did you go to administer » blocks » configure and under 'configure' for recent blog posts, make sure you have visibility settings the way you want them?

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dmweyer commented

I had a similar problem in that any new blog post would not show up in teh recent post block unless you were logged in. I managed to fix this by clearing my cache.