By Estrangheros on

Hi Guys, I have a very quick and maybe very dumb question:
Since a couple of days I'm trying to find a way, how to disable the "read more" option on the first page, so that the visitor will read the full content. Please can anyone help me, finding the option, where to do that?
Further, I tried to include the search option to the header section, but neither under the blocks section I could find out, how to do so.

I hope, anyone out there have a solution for that :S?

thanx in advance!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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abdu’s picture

abdu commented

You can change the teaser length by setting Length of trimmed posts in admin/content/node-settings to Unlimited.

After setting to unlimited update your all nodes to get the effect.

Note : This will make all nodes teaser to have the full content.
To customize the home page alone to have teaser, You can enable views Module and create view (Full node) and change the front page to display this view.

Regarding Search block, Please make sure you have enabled Search Module in admin/build/modules

mshepherd’s picture

mshepherd commented

It sounds like maybe you're trying for a static front page, rather than the default Drupal 'node' page which lists teasers of recent 'story' content.

For a static front page, you may be better to create a new page based on the 'page' content type (rather than 'story'). Then tell Drupal to use this as the default front page. Go to /admin/settings/site-information and change the Default Front Page setting.

Estrangheros’s picture

Estrangheros commented

thank you very much, guys! That helped me a lot! But my issue with the search function still remains, even the search module has been already activated :(. There's just one very last question left;
I want, that every user, who wants to register on my site is required to input (or select) his language. Any idea, how to do that? Is that even possible?

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vm commented

another method would be to use a custom page-front.tpl.php and have at the HTML between the body tags.

copy page.tpl.php to page-front.tpl.php
delete what you don't want, keep what you do, add what you need.
place it in your theme folder
clear the cache in administer -> performance

check site, the new tpl.php should be used on the front page and only the front page. In this case, you can keep the bulk of the page.tpl.php and remove $content variable to remove the river of news.

To handle the search issue with the search feature not being enabled in the header. It is not a block. Go to administer -> themes use the configure tab for your theme. Inspect checkboxes. Enable search at the theme layer. Check site.