Deprecated - Social software and communities

Hi there,

I'm totally new to Drupal and the reason why I use this is because I was told it has a good users management functionality. I want to create a community-site with some smaller clubs in it. So I will use the rolebased menu's to be able to navigate true the site... But the only thing that is really disturbing me is the navigation menu.

Why is it impossible to hide it for guests ? It would be more convinient that it hides by default and you can show it to certain roles, wouldn't it ?

So, I know Drupal developers usually have the attitude of wanting to expand Drupal's capabilities instead of bridging to other software (or so I've read re:phpBB and Drupal), but I was curious if anyone has ever/would like to put energy into making a Wordpress MU bridge.

I love the idea of offering blogs to people who participate in the community site that I run, but really Drupal's blog module, compared to any full-form blogging software is severely lacking, and I don't forsee it catching up.

Please contact me if you have experience of Drupal, are living in Rome, Italy and are available for a 3-4 month initial contract maintaining and further developing an international Drupal site

cordelia

I am looking for drupal developer in order to implant drupal in spain as a social software.
Please contact me.

Is it possible to let users create their own blog categories without letting them have access to the whole taxonomy of the site?

If there was a "Create category" field in existing modules perhaps profile or "create blog entry", Or a new module for creating categories.

What if one makes a copy of the taxonomy module, but limits it to only creating blog categories specific to that user, puts the access so every user can use that module, and call it blog.category.module.

http://drupal.org/node/16010

My site ( http://www.symplification.com ) is currently running on drupal 4.5.3.

I wanted to upgrade, and was waiting for the 4.7 code freeze, (to retheme in phptemplate, and other things) but I got bored, so I wondered if I should consider trying another blogging platform. I selected wordpress, because of it's immense popularity.

Unfortunately, the experiment did not go well. This does not mean that wordpress is worse than drupal, just that wordpress is worse than drupal for my site. This was what I found:

1. Not possible to have a navigation system similar to drupal's book. There is an alternative, involving pages and javascript "jump to" ( http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/03/13/jumpto/ ), but this is non-ideal. It might be possible to hack this in, however; and there are some themes/plugins which do a simplified version, (http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/list-subpages/ ) and actually urlgreyhot has a method to do this ( http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/taxonomy/term/326 )

2. No support for specifying the permalink for a particular page/post. I needed this because of my existing site structure. I was comfortable with using a new structure for future posts, but making older posts link correctly was important.

3. Due to the way wordpress works, relative urls will not work as well. Drupal does it in a manner which is more efficient (albeit logically wrong). For example, in http://www.symplification.com/n7610/review , the link "images/file.jpg" to the image works, even though the actual image is at www.symplification.com/images/file.jpg and not www.symplification.com/n7610/review/images/file.jpg.