Can you use your home page content type to create a secondary page

Posted by bluemonkey69 on October 17, 2012 at 10:36am

I inherited a site where a specific content type was created to be solely used to create the front page of the site. The content type is mt_homepage and is named 'Site Home Page'. The description is 'a homepage for the site'. When you go to 'create content', 'Site Home Page' is one of the options. Also, when I go to edit the home page I notice that the box that says 'promote to front page' is checked.

My question is simple. But since I am fairly new to Drupal it isn't obvious to me. Can I create new content using this same content type, but not 'promote to front page' without effecting my current home page? I would like to duplicate the look and content of the home page on a secondary page, but leave the home page as it is... The site's home page.

Thanks.

Comments

Frontpage

Posted by robhoefakker on October 17, 2012 at 10:54am

Yes you can add a new page and select not promote to front page but it depends on the way this contenttype is displayed. I think your starting point is going to the site information settings and look for the frontpage field. There should be a node or path!

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Site information

Posted by bluemonkey69 on October 17, 2012 at 11:14am

Thanks for the reply. The site information has 'home' in the default front page field. That is also the alias for the current home page. So does that mean I can create a secondary page with the same content type without effecting the current home page?

And thanks for the link to your site. Def something I need.

Thanks again.

Bluemonkey

Aliasses

Posted by robhoefakker on October 17, 2012 at 11:23am

Every drupal node (a page created by a contenttype) has a node id for example node/3 but can also hava a alias, which you found. If you create a new page and the previous developer wrote something to give this new page the same alias. You can always just change back the alias of the previous page on the node/edit page of that node. And give the new page a different alias.

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Alias

Posted by bluemonkey69 on October 17, 2012 at 11:31am

Cool. So if by creating a new page the way I described in my question. And it assigns the alias 'home', I can just change it and reassign that alias to the existing home page. No problem. Thanks. I was afraid of accidentally overwriting my site's home page.

I really do appreciate the help. Thanks!

Bluemonkey

The only way

Posted by robhoefakker on October 17, 2012 at 11:44am

The only way the overwriting thing is possible, is when there's a rule defined by the rule or action module, which will delete the previous page. You can check this by searching for the rules or actions module and checking the settings. If none of these are installed there I can't think of anything that would ruin your frontpage.

Good luck!