Currently Feedburner module creates 4 new blocks. This just adds to the clutter that the blocks page already has. Would it be possible to create a separate module (Feedburner Blocks) that would allow users who wanted the blocks to enable them. All of us other users who don't can have a tidy blocks page.

Thanks!

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Dave Reid
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I'm not exactly thrilled about having to create a separate module just for blocks. It's not exactly the Drupal way. What I can work on is reducing the number of blocks down to something like two. No matter how many modules you have, some of them are going to have blocks, and you can't always have a small, tidy blocks page. :/

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Your right in that modules will create some amount of blocks, but why add to the clutter?

Feedburner does allow you to add the code for the feedburner widget (chicklet chooser) as well as the email subscriptions. Maybe those can be removed. Drupal admins can also customize new blocks (combining the feedburner widget and the email subscription link in one block. This is impossible with the blocks that feedburner.module creates. So if an admin doesn't want to use the blocks that feedburner.module provides, he/she will have multiple blocks that basically do the same thing.

I guess all I am trying to say is that if feedburner.google.com gives you the option (via their site), why create a block within the Feedburner.module. I do not suggest we remove blocks that are drupal-specific. I think the Feedburner Feeds block is an example since it shows all feedburner feeds that the feedburner.module has. The block is using data from the feedburner.module instead of just duplicating the code that feedburner.google.com gives you.