How to Promote older nodes to front page
vmlsd - May 10, 2007 - 03:57
Normally, promoted newer nodes are on top on the front page. But I want to promote older nodes above newer nodes. How can I do this? thank.
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old not above the new?
Are you saying that if you promote an older node to the front page after a newer one, the older node is not promoted above the newer node?
I am trying to say that I
I am trying to say that I have several nodes on the front page. normally, newer nodes are above older nodes when promoted. However, I want to have a particular older node being above the newer nodes. how can I do that?
add a new front page view
add a new front page view and configure the sort order. If you don't want to be doing this.
I'm not sure whether the "Authored on" tab works like a wordpress Timestamp thingy..but try editing that in any case.
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what is the front page view?
what is the front page view? I am not very sure about this. could u provide more details? thanks
Sticky?
Does changing them to sticky nodes do what you want?
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Yeah, sounds like that is what he is looking for.
Yeah.. I owe an apology for
Yeah.. I owe an apology for the obnoxious solution. Sticky should be ideal.
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No, it is not what I want. I
No, it is not what I want. I want a flexible way to change the order of nodes on the front page. I want something like the following
node1 [created on May 1]
node2 [created on May 20]
node3 [created on May 3]
node4 [created on May 2]
node5 [created on May 15]
ok
Answering these two questions (IN GREAT DETAIL) might help us to understand what you want and thus help you find a solution.
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You need to be as detailed as possible, is there a site we can use for example? If not, you might keep finding incorrect solutions.
it is wanted by my
it is wanted by my supervisor.
i dont want it to base on something. just a flexible way to arrange based on my preference.
any solution?
thank
Theoretically you could give
Theoretically you could give nodes weight parameters (similar to menu items) but I think that would take some coding.... Nodes are not set up for that at the moment.
You could always sort them randomly and tell your boss that is "YOUR preference" ;-)
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Therein lies the problem I think, a listing must be based on something. I don't believe it can be totally arbitrary as your "supervisor" wants. Something like that may have to be done by hand on a static page in some way at which point you lose the ability to be dynamic.
preference.
Dude, your preference would be that something.
If you don't understand what is that something, then what is your preference?
The sort/priority order has to be based on something or some preference. What is it?
Using custom weight and views
I would suggest adding a new field to your node type (assuming you are using CCK) then as previously suggested, create a new front page view which is sorted on this new 'custom weight' field.
The Views module is very flexible and will let you generate a page which can sort the content on whatever field you like, the default front page configuration is set to sort on creation date, you are simply creating a custom front page, sorting on something else.
If you still want to sort on date in general, then there might be a fancy way of creating a view that still sorts on date, but first it sorts on another field which you usually keep empty. When you put something in it, it cause it to jump to the top of the sort order.
I am sure there is a way to do this with CCK/Views, you just need to play around with it a little. But as mentioned before, you need to introduce a new field that will be used as the key for your sorting.
This worked well for us in
This worked well for us in one of our projects... Adding a weight field via CCK and using views is a handy combo.
Derek
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Sort order and how to list them the way you want
It's me yo.
Check it, two way to do this - 1. change the published date - that will do it
or
make a revision and post the newest revision, thus also changing the date!
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You should also try the
You should also try the excellent Nodequeue.Module
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