Taxonomy lists?
Hi all,
My name is Emma and this is my first post on Drupal.org :)
I am new to Drupal and I have installed it on my localhost here at work and everything is working fine. However I would just like to ask a question regarding Taxonomy and how to list it.
I am redoing a news site for my company and at the moment we have a small thumbnail and a teaser text next to it and once you click the image or the read more you get the full story, now I can get the thumbnail and the text bit working but when I click read more the thumbnail and the teaser text is on top of the full story and I don't want that, is there anyway of just have a teaser+text that is different from the full story?
Also, I would like to categorize the site by showing the latest "World news" and "Local news" categories. So how can I how show say 5 of the latest stories from "World news" and 5 stories from "Local news" with the teaser text and thumbnail on the front page???
I hope someone can help!! Let me just end by saying Drupal is by fare the best CMS ever!!
Thanks ;)
Emma
Welcome to Drupal Emma
Ok Emma you kinda confused me on the teaser thumbnail thingy. But I think the solution you are looking for is the Views module and also the Views bonus pack.
You will probly need CCK sometime as well so you should become familiar with that. Views and CCk are the two most powerful modules in all of drupal-dom.
Oh wait. Are you using version 6? If so The views and CCK modules haven't been fully ported to version 6. I haven't even messed with 6 yet. If you are looking to deploy a website quickly you may want to go with version 5.
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Thank you mr.throk that was
Thank you mr.throk that was helpful (sorry for not being clear with the thumbnails) I will give it a go, as you said its best I start off with version5 with CCK installed.
Do you know the answer to my question about showing the latest posts from my categories? I am used to wordpress and with wordpress you can simply output any number of listings from any category with a simple tag. Do you know how to do this with Drupal?
Thanks a mil!
Emma
Views
You can do that with views. Make a view and you can add all kinds of filters. Simply use the Category filter and you can select which term(s) that you want to filter it by, and in the sorting area have it sort by when the nodes where created.
You can also pass the category terms as parameters which might be good if you have many categories so you don't have to make a new view by hand for each category, I'm not really great at that but you should check out the views documentation and experiment. http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/views
Good Luck
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