Trying to display the recent blogs in Drupal 7, I looked under configure
for Recent blog posts
block and there are only a few options, namely how many to display and the title, then theme regions etc.
So I added the views
module and chaos tools
so I could add a custom view, but now it’s gone from too little info to too much.
Ideally, I’d just like to overwrite the default block in the theme but when I try to track it down there’s not an actual template to override, I think I’ve isolated the PHP that draws this section, but I need to add the date and teaser. The final image is a preview of what the assignment is expecting.
block–blog–recent.tpl.php
/**
* Implements hook_block_view().
*
* Displays the most recent 10 blog titles.
*/
function blog_block_view($delta = '') {
global $user;
if (user_access('access content')) {
$result = db_select('node', 'n')
->fields('n', array('nid', 'title', 'created'))
->condition('type', 'blog')
->condition('status', 1)
->orderBy('created', 'DESC')
->range(0, variable_get('blog_block_count', 10))
->addTag('node_access')
->execute();
if ($node_title_list = node_title_list($result)) {
$block['subject'] = t('Recent blog posts');
$block['content']['blog_list'] = $node_title_list;
$block['content']['blog_more'] = array(
'#theme' => 'more_link',
'#url' => 'blog',
'#title' => t('Read the latest blog entries.'),
);
return $block;
}
}
}