By bejii on

This is a screencap of Wordpress's basic "popular posts" block: http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/4923/popularposts.jpg

How would I be able to recreate that? Small teaser pic on one side, with the node title on the other.

Bejii

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narayanis commented

You could do this pretty easily with a view. You will have to use some kind of criteria to determine "popular", and then create a view with a Block display and theme it as needed. Views theming can get unnecessarily complicated, so check out Semantic Views to help you simplify the output.

einsteinsboi’s picture

einsteinsboi commented

You could also use the Popular Content block and theme it accordingly. But I think a view would work just as well

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bejii commented

Thanks for the replies, but do any of you have a link on how to do this? It all seems like vague theory talk...

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narayanis commented

Have you learned Views yet? It's one of the first things you need to know for any Drupal site. There is good documentation within the module's help, and several screencasts to walk you through your first views. One example is http://www.drupalove.com/drupal-video/drupal-views-tutorial, but a quick web search will return many more. If you need personal training or a walkthrough, there are opportunities for that in the Paid Services forum.

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bejii commented

I've used views before but the thing that's missing in the filters section is an image display for a node...

narayanis’s picture

narayanis commented

One of the available fields when creating the view will be the CCK or Image field you created, and you can choose to output the path to the image, or the image itself.

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bejii commented

i just realized that the reason i didn't have that feature available is because the modules require php 5.2 and up...bummer