By drhilarius on

Hi all - I've just started messing around with Drupal and I am so impressed... I actually got up at 7AM on a Saturday just to play with it some more! :-)

Anyway, forgive me if this is a FAQ but i couldn't find it in the manual or via a quick search of this forum. What I'd like to do on my site is to really have two types of stories tracked separately: news and commentary. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this best. I think the easiest way would be to have my main category (which is commentary) appear in the main content list in the middle of the page, and then have stories in the news category display only in a block. The manual says how to make a block showing only one category. But I haven't been able to figure out how to exclude a certain category from the "main stories" listing in the middle of the page, but still have it available to show in a block. I'm trying to be as "vanilla" as possible in my use of drupal in order to allow easy upgrading, etc.

Thanks in advance for any help...

Rich

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nevets commented

When you create/edit content if you have the right permissions (the first login always does) you will see a box at the top of the form labled 'options' and in there a check box for 'Promoted to front page'. If this is checked, the content will show up on the default front page, if not checked, it does not show.

So, simply uncheck 'Promoted to front page' for those items you do not want on the front page.

You can also change the default setting for the option under administer -> content -> configure (tab) -> content types (sub tab). Click configure for the content type you are using and see 'default options'. This is usefull if you do not want the content to show on the front page by default. Can be useful if you have users submitting content and you want to choose what goes on the front page.

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drhilarius commented

Makes perfect sense... I was trying to come at it from the wrong angle (by basing it on category)... but manually choosing whether to show it on the front page will work great.

Thanks Nevets!

rich