Displaying a List of Article Teasers, with Pagination

Posted by cheddarcheese on February 23, 2013 at 7:48pm

Hi,

First of all, I'm somewhat new to Drupal, so please forgive any newbie-like misunderstandings I may have.

What I would like is have a node of type Page, and on that page (e.g. http://xyz.com/page) display the teasers from all nodes of type Article, in chronological order (newest first). I would like there to be pagination if there are more than x number of Articles, and the title of each Article listed would allow the user to click through to the full Article.

I seem to have looked everywhere how to do this, but can't find anything that works. (I tried the module "get_content_type", but 6.x doesn't work with my Drupal 7, and the .dev version of the module for 7.x doesn't work because of PHP errors).

I've also read something about using the Views module. I'm not familiar with using Views, and I understand it's quite complex, and in other places I've noted that it may be overkill for what I want to do, given that it's the only thing I would be using Views for.

If anyone can assist, and point me in the right direction, then it would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Cheddar

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Hey there! It is almost never

Posted by Knob on February 23, 2013 at 10:25pm

Hey there! It is almost never an overkill to have Views installed on you site. Most sites use it and it will be in core in Drupal 8.

And for your needs, Views is exactly what you are looking for :) So give it a shot, million learning resources out there for using Views so go crazy.

You can follow me on Twitter: @drupalexp or on my blog.

Hi Knob! Thanks for the

Posted by cheddarcheese on February 23, 2013 at 10:51pm

Hi Knob! Thanks for the reply. I actually just tried out Views at www.simplytest.me (which I also just discovered - very awesome), and managed to get Views to do exactly what I need.

So, I guess I will use Views, but I'm just wondering (seeing as I don't yet completely understand how modules are integrated) is there any overhead with having it installed? I mean, I'll certainly find it useful for the specific need I have, but is it possible that it would affect load-time of the rest of the site, even though the rest of the site won't be using Views?

FYI. I almost never click through to blogs, etc, in tag-lines, but for some reason I felt compelled to click through to yours: awesomely useful article about the 10 JQuery-based Drupal modules!

Thanks again!
Cheddar

Hey there! Hehe, glad I

Posted by Knob on February 25, 2013 at 8:56am

Hey there!

Hehe, glad I could help.

What Views does is makes complex queries of content from the database and lists the results in a lot of different ways. This means that Views is being used by your site only when displaying a page or block that is generated by it.

That being said, for your purposes, you don't have to worry, it's a very simple use, most websites use Views a bunch of times on their site and it is fine. It is the way to go :)

You can follow me on Twitter: @drupalexp or on my blog.