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News items not showing on home page - NewBie fighting the learning curve

Hi All,

For about 40 hours into learning Drupal...

At one point I followed this
http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/06/how-to-create-news-items-and-a-news-li...
adjusted it to my D7 setup and got the result I wanted :-)

Now hours/days later I noticed that the block that displays the list of News_items on the front page is no longer 'working'.

I played with tlp.php files - views - blocks etc - NO IDEA what/when/where triggered the fact that this block is no longer being rendered :-(

Going through things to find the issue but running out of ideas as to where to look.
Here is what I have checked & double checked :

Structure - Content Type - news = Published , Promoted to front page
Structure - Views - news_list - Filter criteria = Content: Published (Yes), Content: Type (= news), Block Settings Access: None (= no restrictions)
Structure - Blocks - my adjusted theme - news_list-block/configure:
- Pages is restricted to Front - Content Types = news - No other restrictions ...

Under admin/content I see 3 items of type news with status published... + Promoted to front page is ticked on.

Now I have played a bit with tlp.php files in my theme but returned back to defaults (I believe).
I switched to bartik briefly to make sure and got the same "no-show" there.

The 'News' page show the 3 items - no problem.

It is the damn block I lost... misconfigured... I think...

Suggestions? I don't want to delete all 'news' related node/block/view and start over again - would like to find why it is not showing and learn from it...

Thanks a bunch.

Comments

block configuration

Is your block set up to display only on the "<front>" page? Or did you set a specific path which is different from what you set your front page to be at admin/config/system/site-information?

If you create a page view and set up a link in Views does your news content display?

--BitRadiator

Reply to comment block configuration

block is set up to display only on the <front> page - even when I click 'All pages except those listed' and leave the list blank ... I don't see it (anymore)

admin/config/system/site-information-Default front page is : starz

starz content is showing.

Blanking out the admin/config/system/site-information-Default front page
and using in the block display settings shows me the news items + another content type that I do not want to see on that page ...

So on the right track here - something is going to "click" - I feel it...

so how do I get that "starz" page to display the news items (only) and not the other content type...
tried to replace <front> with starz (or <starz>) in block-display ain't doing it (yet?) ...

Learning Drupal - Een Antwearps drupalista-ke in Okotoks, AB - Canada

Got it

Not 100% sure what I did :-s but it is back.

Peter

Learning Drupal - Een Antwearps drupalista-ke in Okotoks, AB - Canada

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