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Drupal 7 Social Networking

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Social Networking Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516006
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Drupal and Social Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs 4. Users and Profiles 5. Enabling User Interaction 6. Social Seasoning 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network 8. How We Can Design Our Site 9. Communicating with Our Users 10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network 11. Easing Growing Pains 12. Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies Setting up a Local Development Environment Installed Modules Index

Commenting on user profiles


Unfortunately development on modules which allow users to comment on profiles of other users is still very much ongoing.

The guestbook module

At the moment, the most suitable working module is the guestbook module, as this provides each user with their own guestbook as part of their profile which other users can comment on. At the time of writing, this module is still very much "in development", but is still the most suitable for now.

What to look out for

There are however a number of other modules under development which are more suited to this type of feature. The most promising is a Facebook-style statuses (microblog) module (http://drupal.org/project/facebook_status). There is no Drupal 7 version available, however there is a discussion about how this is going to work at http://drupal.org/node/671822.

Tip

Get involved

Why not consider getting involved with module development? Even by simply providing feedback, and reporting issues to the developers to help them...

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