By wcmessenger on

Obvious newbie here. Looking to build an online newspaper, with specific sections of it named like "News" "Sports" "Business" "Obituaries" etc. etc.

So I've got some test content added, each as different Content Types that I have created (again, "News" "Sports" "Business" "Obituaries" etc. etc.). I can see how to get these onto the home page, but how would I create a new page in the site, say called "News Headlines," that ONLY gives me links to the nodes I previously created, again in this instance just from Content Type "News".

I've got Views installed, which I believe is a start, but is it a matter of creating a new Content Type of "Page" then adding some PHP code to it to pull only the relevant content?

Many thanks!

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scottatdrake’s picture

scottatdrake commented

This isn't an answer to your questions but...

Have you looked into the OpenPublish distribution of Drupal? It come pre-packaged with pretty much everything an online newspaper would need. Might save you some time and effort.

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wcmessenger commented

So this is a full install of Drupal with several modules pre-included? Will have to investigate. Thanks!

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marcusthijm commented

You should create a new view. After you do that you fill in some details, for example what content-type you want to show on the page. After this you create a page inside the view (top left) and that's it.

So from within your view you can choose to only show nodes with content type 'news'.

I'm saying this a lot on my posts, but for a good explanation you should check out the views-video from Lullabot: http://store.lullabot.com/products/learning-views . There is a need to pay, but it made stuff really clear to me...

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wcmessenger commented

Ahh, I see. Somehow I missed the page option before. Will investigate the tutorials. Thanks!