By mwease on
I have a "Home" in my primary links which shows the text that i put into the body. a breadcrumb named "Home" shows up wherever i go and, when i click on THAT one, my text is not there, but the original text from installation shows up. how is this possible and why is it allowed?
in addition, my text never showed up at all until i REPLACED the "" in the Path in the admin/sitebuilding/menu entry for "Home" with "node/1".
i just don't understand this and LOTS about Drupal...
(i have another list of thousands of questions, if anyone has some time. i'll pay!)
mike wease
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default drupal front page is set in stone at node. which gives you the river of news (teasers) just like the front page of drupal.org.
if you don't promote any content to the front page, the drupal welcome message is still available.
you've set a default front page in administer -> site information -> default front page which perfectly fine.
Howver, I would have created a page-front.tpl.php and added my HTML to it and placed it in my theme.
With reagrds to the breadcrumb issue, what theme is in use?
2 home pages
i seem to be verymisunderstood often, also. :)
i don't really know what i'm doing, but if i understand, the home/front page is already there at installation and i have created a second one, but i believe i did it via create content -> page and used "
<front>". it has been a few days, so i may be wrong. the theme is the canned bluemarine and apparently the breadcrumbs are automatic.i obviously will have to learn php, but i wanted to use a CMS or other site-building software so as to limit or alleviate having to use html, php, etc. i don't want to put down drupal, but am i nuts to be thinking that all the power of drupal that is mentioned everywhere i look comes from php and contributed modules?
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anyone site can't have two home pages. I'd inspect the comment at the bottom and see if that doesn't fix your issue. With what you've just described I can't be sure what you've done. You wouldn't use
<front>to set a front page. you would use<front>to set blocks on a front page.the default front page is set in administer -> site information -> default front page
as far the power and flexibility of drupal, when you want to do something other than the default, then yes, some elbow grease is needed. You'll find this holds true regardless of which CMS you choose.
you are absolutely right. i
you are absolutely right. i used elsewhere, almost certainly in blocks. sorry. no wonder i'm so very misunderstodd!
thanks again. i've replied to the reply from aklouie and posted again.
Is that node where you have
Is that node where you have the text published to the front page? If not, your 'homepage' has nothing and hence the installation text comes up. Go to your node/1 and edt it, at the bottom in publishing options ensure "Publish to the Front Page" is set. Then I would guess that both your breadcrumb home and your home link will work.
2 home pages
that worked, aklouie! thanks much. that gives me a clue as to possibly why a login/password i wanted on the home page and another text blurb, both in sidebars, don't show.
however, when i click on my primary link "Home", it looks great and has the "View" and "Edit", etc, options listed. when i click on the breadcrumb, the View and Edit options disappear and the breadcrumb becomes larger and in a different font. if i click on this larger Home breadcrumb, the display goes back to what i see with the primary link.
interesting...but frustrating.
can i just remove my Home page and point my primary link to the "cast in stone" front page? how does one do that? does it have a node number? it doesn't show up in "Content".
i'm asking everyone that talks to me if they're for hire, because, obviously, i need lotsa help....
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the default front page is node and can be set in administer -> site information -> default front page
thanks again. we've been
thanks again. we've been posting at the same time.