This appears to occur on both 6.4 and 6.5 (Acquia distrib).

If you define a different front page as default (Settings > Site Information at bottom of form), and then create a story and select "Promoted to front page" in the Publishing options, the story fails to appear on the front page.

I tested in several core themes, and in each case had the same result. I used fresh installations with no new modules on both 6.4 and 6.5. If I'm doing something wrong, I can only imagine everyone would do it wrong... the alternative approach does not appear to be obvious.

Workaround is not difficult: leave node/1 as default front page and change its contents to whatever you would have had on the newly declared front page. However, this workaround makes the alternative front page settings option moot.

Wishing I could track down more about the cause and supply a patch, but both those steps are beyond my current abilities with Drupal - hoping someone can make headway on the concern.

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brianV’s picture

brianV commented
Version: 6.5 » 6.x-dev

The 'Promoted to front page' checkbox sets the 'promoted' flag in the node table for that node.

If whatever you have as your frontpage doesn't grab items with that flag, then they won't show on the front page.

This is resolved in D7 by adjusting the wording for that option to make it somewhat more clear about how it functions.

dodorama’s picture

dodorama commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/404300

chissy’s picture

chissy commented

And how is this dealt with in Drupal 6? Is there no way to promote to anything other than the default front page

ttaylor797’s picture

ttaylor797 commented

I am encountering the same issue where the nodes I set as promoted to front page previous to changing the default front page are still set, but I am not able to set any new ones with that flag.

I am going to try using flag (http://drupal.org/project/flag) and rules (http://drupal.org/project/rules) as a workaround solution as per the suggestion on:
http://drupal.org/node/404300#comment-3597598