aggregate stories and blog entries on pages other than the front page
Hi all -- This seems so basic yet after many hours of reading Drupal docs and other sites I can't figure it out.
I would like to publish "news" stories on my site that are added (blog-like) to a single News page, preferably in reverse-date order (most recent on top). by "news" I mean straight-ahead industry or company news items that are not editorial in nature.
I would like to publish blog entries (opinion, rumor, conjecture, analysis) to a separate page.
I would like both news and blog entries to be published to the front page.
If someone here can help me get the News idea working, I can probably move along to getting Blog working too.
This is what I've done so far:
1- created my first story for the News section and from that content creation page, created the menu item News (which ended up being /node/4)
2- added the News menu item with the Parent Item being a menu I'd created that appears as a block in the left sidebar (Abarre theme ... I'm using only menus, not primary links)
3- created my second story for the News section.
WHAT I WANT: I want a "News" page (the normal way of thinking about a "web page" meaning a single load, not what Drupal calls, so confusingly, a Page) that is NOT my front page. I want, when someone clicks on the News menu item, for this news page to load, with the most recent story on top, with some way to say how many stories appear on one page load (i.e., with Drupal providing automatic 1-2-3 page links at the bottom to keep reading "backwards in time" to older stories)
WHAT I HAVE: The first _story_ I created is somehow tied to the Menu item in a way that clicking on the Menu item ONLY shows that story. I tried, for the second story, to say it's Parent item is News. that did not work, it only shows up on my front page and when I click on News I still see ONLY the first story. I also tried saying the 2nd story's Menu link is "news" (same as the first) but with the same results. I cannot seem to get a page that displays a running list of News stories. The only place both News stories are appearing is the front page.
SO THE QUESTION IS: How do I create a Menu Item that links to a "web page" (NOT Drupal "Page" content type) that displays A LIST of stories, not ONE story?
thanks. I seriously have spent days looking for this info (and got so frustrated I have joined the Docs project, hoping my newbie perspective will help make the overall Drupal experience more attractive to the average joe/sephine like me.)
kazar
site is at: ade.pt
Please do some research in
Please do some research in the forums before posting. Your question has been asked, and answered, many times over.
You need to investigate the Views module.
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i researched for four hours
thanks for the tip ScoutBaker. I tried all sorts of searches, and i read through all the documentation, and did Google searches across the Web as well. As a forum and discussion list member on many sites since 1993, I am well aware of the responsibility to research before asking.
However, I was searching for strings such as "aggregate stories on one page", or "add story to page". I got gazillions of hits and could not find what I needed (though I learned lots of other things, lol, as I read through all the pages that did NOT answer my q's)
Thanks for the guidance to the Views module, which is not mentioned in basic docs and which one could not know to search for when one is brand new to Drupal. I will make a note about making info about Views more accessible for the Docs project I've signed up to help with.
So I'm off to read Views. I could swear on one site on which I was a simple user once, this was done without Views, it had something to do with Taxonomy. Chances are there are more than one way to approach it, but I will look at Views first.
Have a great day!
ade.pt
some answers re "more than one Story per page"
For the sake of anyone else who may have landed on this page looking for the same answers I needed when I created my post, I found some /actually helpful/ answers at http://drupal.org/node/185741.
ade.pt