Alternative to the Article module

Not really. You create whatever vocabularies you want and tell the article module to "take care" of them.

Whenever you visit yoursite.com/article you will find a page with the latest nodes belonging to any of the configured vocabularies.

You can also browse a vocabulary tree and see nodes tagged by each term.

This module was written long before views. If you can replace it with views then please tell me. I don't feel like maintaining a module if views can do its job.

Will close this then ;-)

I two have been struggling with the article module, a faithful old friend. But not up to speed with cck, views and panels. Creating the cck and views would allow me to put each category in a separate panel on my front page. I wonder how you handled the non panel display. Have you created a view for all the articles that can be selected by a category.

After writing this I realize how trivial that is, non the less any thing you would like to share about your experience would be app reacted

Regards
Ron

I always thought that the module while doesn't offer a lot, works fine.

I'm yet to check views 2 and see if I can drop this module but this won't happen before the final 2.0 is out and Drupal.org migrates to it.

Seems like all you'd have to do is make a content type called 'article', associate it with a vocablulary name (Categories) and set an url alias to reference it to create the same effect. And use Views module to add a recent article box. Am i missing something or is this a way just to do a basic article without setting up Views etc..?

I've been trying to set this up with views and so far unable to list articles as links in the page, not sure and how to add the article categories and node count either. How did you set yours up ?