By lajollalight on

I don't want to show any stories on my new real estate site:

http://www.lajollalightrealestate.com/

However when I disable the stories content type, the "welcome to your new drupal website" text appears in it's place on the homepage. Is there a way to disable all stories from my site?
Thanks for the help..

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

What do you want on the front page of your site?

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lajollalight commented

Hey Nevets thanks for the reply. On the home page I want everything that is there now, except for the story.

Drupalace-1’s picture

Drupalace-1 commented

You need at least one piece of content featured on the front page, or the "Welcome" message will appear. How about making a Page or Blog Entry, consisting of just the shortest message you might want to display ("Welcome to My Site" or "Please log in" or whatever), and promoting that to the main page?

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lajollalight commented

Is there no way around this, ideas anyone? I'm considering reporting it as a bug.. or is there another way to get the developers to change this?

I considered deleting the story content type but I get a message "This cannot be undone", I don't want stories showing anywhere on the site right now, but I may want to add them later.

Is there really nothing that can be done? Am I stuck with showing at least one story on my homepage?
thanks,
Bill

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nevets commented

By default you need something in the content area, by default it is a list of content promoted to the front page. You can change what shows (the path) and in the case you really want no content on the front page edit page.tpl.php so $content is not printed if $is_front is true.

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Drupalace-1 commented

Per my message: No, you don't have to have at least one story on the main page. You have to have at least one *node* - any node type, whether Page, Story, Poll, Blog Entry, whatever. (I'm capitalizing those to emphasize that they're specific content types – i.e., node types.)

If you really don't want any node at all showing up on the main page, then the answer is as nevets said. OR investigate the Front Page module for more control over the main page, or specify some other path under "Default front page" in admin/settings/site-information . Can't say much more than that, as I'm not sure what it is that you do want to display on the main page.

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lajollalight commented

I tried setting my home page to a new page, but none of the blocks (including the login block) were enabled so when i closed the page and got back in, now i have no access to administering the site. How can I change it back to the standard homepage that had the login block?

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dman commented

Troubleshooting FAQ?

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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lajollalight commented

Thanks dman, got my homepage back! But why doesnt the new homepage i created show the same blocks as all my other pages? shouldn't it? Do i Need to do something special? Dont see the answer in the drupal documentation.

this google search didn't come up with the relevant content i needed

blocks missing on drupal page