I have been looking around for a while, for a module that lets me customize which nodes appear on my front page. Not always do I want to simply have the 5 or 10 latest headlines on the front page, but I would like to specify this more.

I haven't found this in Drupal yet. If anyone know of a module that I could use, please let me know. If not, maybe this could be implemented in this module in the future - it looks like a good start.

For example, having a list of nodes sorted by taxonomy/vocabulary where you could tick off the nodes to be put on the front page, and where you could weigh them from -10 to 10 (as currently works on other areas of Drupal) to order them on the front page, I think this would be an excellent thing!

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Dublin Drupaller’s picture

Dublin Drupaller commented

good idea....I will look into it.

Although, I stand corrected, but, I think a module already exists that allows you to do that, so, it maybe duplicating existing functionality.

As I say..will look into it and post back up here..

Dub

Dublin Drupaller’s picture

Dublin Drupaller commented

have looked into it and it's not something to put into front-page.module as it duplicates other existing modules.

There is an out of the box CONTENT admin option where you can PUBLISH TO FRONT PAGE, promote and demote nodes...which maybe worth working with on top of the many taxonomy related modules that are already in the modules download area of this site.

And there is scope to simply include custom PHP in your front page that calls out just the 5 or 10 headlines....see the following post for an example of how to pull blogs using php.

http://drupal.org/node/17532

Hope that helps.

Dub

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steffen commented

Something in that direction, yes... :)

Anything that lets me control the layout of the frontpage, without removing the dynamics of it, is what I'm looking for. So let's say I can publish the most recent article (or the sticky one) on the top, have two columns and one row with the most recent nodes underneath it, followed by a box in the middle with a special announcement, and with a couple of nodes underneath this again. If I can use PHP to include this into a front page, it would be ideal.

I have actually found the a 'headlines.module' by searching on Google - http://drupal.org/node/17404 - it looks very promising. It is not in the modules category on Drupal.org though... It looks as if I have to customize it quite a lot, and use it together with the splashpage module. If I do that i might get the effect I'm looking for.

...should be possible to combine the features of these though, and release as a module...?