By osmorphyus on

hello!

drupal so far is a pretty sweet app. it's so easy to manipulate, i can't believe i busted my head open for so long on other lousy php apps. there's still alot i have to learn about it, tho. one thing i want to learn is: how can i have an admin updateable, "front page news" if you will?

the idea:

guests log onto the site, they see everything the logged in user will experience in terms of sidebar options, etc. down the middle of the page, i would like to have the sites news/updates/blog displayed.

currently i have a forum created and have set the "welcome" thread as content on the main home page.

this works half and half. it works, but it only shows a few lines of text.

ideally i want a source of information, that will display entirely for all users, and list the number of comments/options to comment on it.

i'm old school, and i come from a portal app that had functionality like this by default, so i'm stuck in my ways. with drupal however, i'm thinking it's possible to do what i'm getting at!

that's a lot of apostrophes!

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Drupalace-1 commented

As you probably know, checking "Promoted to front page" on a node's edit form will place it on the front page, IF default front page is set to "node" at admin/settings/site-information .

Looks like you've set something else to the front page, and your desired nodes are showing up there, all of which is fine and good. If I understand correctly, the only problem is that the nodes are appearing as teasers, not full nodes.

If that's the problem, then perhaps you need to set "Length of trimmed posts" to "Unlimited" at admin/content/node-settings . That should display whole nodes, unless you manually add teaser breaks to the individual nodes.

Does that work?