By fnord on

It's fairly simple to create the RSS feeds and fill blocks with them, but is there a way to make them the main content on the page?

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dries’s picture

dries commented

Set the "Default front page" setting (administration » site configuration) to "import". Is that what you had in mind?

There is also some effort being put in making news items nodes such that they can be promoted to the front page, commented on, etc.

fnord’s picture

fnord commented

That did pretty much exactly what I wanted, but for some reason now the blocks are all listed on the right for the bundles, and they're all blank.

Is there some way to control the order of the bundles as they appear in the main content area?

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eenixon commented

I've been searching for a newby-level explanation of how to set-up a front page that is a little more welcoming than the default, but doen't necessarily rely on content from "inside." Kind of a standard static homepage idea, viewable by anyone who happens by.

I tried inserting unquoted "import" as indicated above and was presented with a blank page. You probably know that fixing this seems to require editing a table in the mySQL database. Can be done but is a bit risky if you don't know what you're doing, like me.

Joe, in another post, has talked about creating a "site page" and using it as the front page. This makes sense conceptually, but I can't find the details for implementation, i.e, setting it up in the config form. In a simple minded way, I tried a couple of versions of a relative URL, as per the instruction: "sitepage.html" and "/sitepage.html" and saw a page, but not the one I had created.

There seem to be a fair number of questions on this topic, but I can't find a clear answer.

Help! Where do I go in the docs? And thanks.

...edN

arevos’s picture

arevos commented

I'm unsure of quite what you want, so I'll briefly explain the system.

As default it's "node". That means that the home page points toward "yoursite.com/?p=node" by default. If you want a specific page for your site, you could put in "node/view/n", where n is the number of the node you want as the home page. Essencially all it does it tell Drupal where to go.

The parent poster wanted to have an RSS feed as the home page. So he put in "import". I suspect that this doesn't work for you, because you hadn't enabled the import module.

Hope this helps :)

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Mike@frazierhome.net commented

Sorry to take this thread off the original topic, but I wanted to answer this question:

To do what eenixon is asking (not the import/RSS feed) you just want to create a static page and then promote it to the front page. This is how my front page works. I have a static page that I have set to be promoted and permenant on my front page so it appears at the top. Then I will periodically promote certain blog or story pages to the front to appear under this permenant page. So my front page has my welcome page with links into my site, and the other entries show up when I make a change to my site or somesuch (like announcing my changing the theme, upgrading drupal, adding new content or features, etc). I've also set my site so that by default NO new content goes to the front page (I have to manually click that box if I want it there).

Check out FrazierHome.net and see if that style of opening page is what you are shooting for.