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One feed module to rule them all

I found the build in feed support of Drupal to be a bit poor. It only offers RSS feeds, publishes only teasers, but not full text and doesn't allow to set an image for your feed. Atom support is missing and there is no comment feed. There are modules for both atom and comment feed, though.

That's why I decided to write a module for general feed handling purposes. The module is still very beta, however, it already powers this site's feeds. You can download it here. Be sure to read the INSTALL.txt file, since this module requires a hack to the node module.

Tailoring Drupal to fit as a newspaper CMS

As mentioned earlier I was looking for a CMS to publish a newspaper. This is: Make the printed content available online and allow additional online publishing. Since I couldn’t find an appropriate system to do this out of the box, I finally decided to take Drupal and customize it to fit my needs. Here's why and how.