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Sep 28 2008

Drigg site configuration #9 – related links

Posted by: admin in site_development, tags: , , ,

The built-in navigation, with categories, links and the sorting/filtering offered by the Drigg module, provide good navigation of submitted and published articles; to add to this, I added the contributed Drupal relatedlinks module.

After installing, at
Administer > site configuration > related links,
I enabled Manual, Parsed and Discovered links, all in a single block (only the first Block checkbox checked), for content type Scoops.

Manual links are created specifically when an item is submitted.
Parsed links are retrieved from the body of each node, from the description text entered by the submitter.
Discovered links are based on the Category and Tags vocabularies and by search terms.

Under Discovered Links preferences, I enabled taxonomy terms, search module, prefer same content type, and prefer newer results; for Taxonomy options, Tags (and not Categories).

The Related Links block is enabled at
Administer > site building > blocks,
at the top of the right sidebar, and named “Related items”.  It will show up by default only on node pages (pages displaying a single item), for which related items exist based on the setup criteria.

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  1. Drigg site configuration – #1
  2. Drigg site configuration #2 – theme
  3. Drigg site configuration #3 – menus
  4. Drigg site configuration #4 – bookmarklet
  5. Drigg site configuration #5 – restrict registration
  6. Drigg site configuration #6 – addn’l modules
  7. Drigg site configuration #7 – authorship
  8. Drigg site configuration #8 – taxonomy tweaks
  9. Drigg site configuration #9 – related links
  10. Drigg site configuration #10 – promotion strategies
  11. Drigg site configuration #11 – string overrides
  12. Drigg site configuration #12 – to aggregate or not to aggregate …
  13. Drigg site configuration #13 – subcategories

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One Response to “Drigg site configuration #9 – related links”
  1. admin says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    I had overlooked the built-in Drigg Related Links module (part of the standard Drigg distribution), and only just recently discovered this (silly me!).

    It looks pretty nice. After enabling it, configure it from the
    Administer > site configuration > Drigg module page, under the Related links tab (note that the tabs tend to run into the right sidecolumn if your browser window is not wide enough – you may need to stretch your window to access these tabs). I’ve left it for now, with the default settings.

    Beneath each node now (in single-node view), is a listing of “Similar Stories”; and a tab is added right of the “comments” and “who voted” tabs below the item, for “related links” – which displays title (linked to the related item) and teaser for a list of related items.

    Apparently this is selecting related items based on text query of title & body the nodes.

    I’ll give this a spin, and assess its utility in comparision with the Drupal related_links module & block described in the main post above, and post my impressions back here after a decent trial.

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