When default front page is changed to use a new page (home for instance) then any articles etc. that were checked as promote to front page are no longer visible. You can change the default front page but now most of your content will just disapear.

This is all to try to get rid of that insidious "Read More" link on the default front page.

Maybe I should have spent my time learning asp.net instead?

Windows is after all superior to linux!

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webchick’s picture

webchick
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Location Vancouver 🇨🇦
commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

You've stumbled across a confusing part of the interface, but there's no critical bug here.

#404300: "Promote to front page" is a misnomer is an issue where we're discussing how to make this checkbox more clear in Drupal 8.

damien tournoud’s picture

damien tournoud commented

Arf.

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MrPhilbert commented

In D6 when I changed the front page, all the other nodes that were promoted to front page followed. This was a handy (if not convoluted) solution to the read more link problem. Google search returns tons. In D7, this does not happen. I've tried it in rc, 7.0 and dev to no avail.

I just got around this however. I had to enable views, clone the frontpage view (dont't want to hack it up) and change the node display to not show links. It does still link the title but the read more goes away. Then I can change the default front page path to the name of the new view path. This does work but should it be necessary?

Please don't disregard this Angie as you quite honestly are quite the hero.

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rszrama commented

What you describe as the normal D6 behavior is in fact not the normal behavior. Perhaps you were using Views then, too? In other words... the way it works in D7 is the way it's always worked (well, as long as I've been using Drupal, which admittedly only goes back to 4.6).

@Damien++

dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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Exactly. The "problem" behavior is how the core front page behavior has worked by design for a while.

Also, you can use the http://drupal.org/project/read_more module to disable the Read more links if that's what you needed.

Hell you can also easily use CSS: body.front .node li.node-readmore { display: none; }

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

Nice, I didn't know about Read More Link. : P

MrPhilbert’s picture

MrPhilbert commented

Thank you for the css. That's much simpler than enabling views and removing that way.

IWasBornToWin’s picture

IWasBornToWin commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Needs review

Any solution to this for D7?

And can anyone tell me why this is normal?

Steps to reproduce major confusion, by design;

1. Assign any page as a front page for Drupal.
2. If you do step 1, promoting any content, ever, to front page does not ever show up on your front page again. And we programmed it to work this way.

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attiks commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (works as designed)

See #404300: "Promote to front page" is a misnomer, in short 'promote to front' only works if your front page is set to node.