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Configuring Drupal Modules

The first step is to create a few categories so visit the url below on your drupal site.

http://yoursite.com/admin/content/taxonomy

Click Add vocabulary and create a Vocabulary titled “Category”, select types Scoop, Hierarchy if you want subcategories select Multiple otherwise select Disabled, tick the Required box and submit.

Next we are going to add the actual site categories to the Category Vocabulary we created, goto Add Terms on the Category Vocabulary. Add a couple of categories where it says Term Names, we added two to get started Design and Ajax, don’t worry too much about this part for the moment as you can add more categories later on as your site develops.

Now add another vocabulary and title this one “Tags”, select types Scoop, Hierarchy select Disabled, tick Free Tagging and the Required box then submit.

Okay thats you setup a few categories now we can configure drigg to use those categories.

Goto the URL below.

http://yoursite.com/admin/settings/drigg

At the top of this page is the button below, if you add a new category or change any of your category names you will need to come back to the drigg module each time and recalculate the category alias.

For the moment we are just going to configure some simple options that drigg has to get your site up and running. The first page you see is Drigg’s General Options look for “Settings for shortened URLs” and set both separators to – instead of _, this is an important step for correct SEO. Now goto the bottom of this page and click Save Configuration.

Next goto Drigg UI, and look for this below and paste the code supplied below into the empty text boxes.

Feed string for feeds pointing to all articles:

<img src="/sites/all/themes/drigg_theme/img/block_feedicon.gif" title="RSS Feed - All stories" />

Feed string for feeds pointing to promoted articles:

&nbsp;<img src="/sites/all/themes/drigg_theme/img/block_feedicon.gif" title="RSS Feed - Only published stories" />

Now click Save Configuration.

Goto the Drigg Users Tab and look for and paste the code supplied below into the empty text boxes..

String to show next to the username if the user voted the story UP:

<img src="/sites/all/themes/drigg_theme/img/whovoted_up.gif" alt="Up" />

String to show next to the username if the user voted the story DOWN:

<img src="/sites/all/themes/drigg_theme/img/whovoted_down.gif" alt="Down" />

If you would like Videos to be embeded from the likes of YouTube when submitted goto the “Embedded Objects” tab and select what services you would like to embed when a URL is submitted.

To set the number of votes required for a submitted story to be promoted to the main page goto the “Promotion” Tab and enter the amount of votes you would like a story to reach before being promoted.

Okay thats the actual Drigg module setup next we have to configure the other modules we installed and change the theme to Driggs Default, goto page 4 for this part of the tutorial.

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