By cargiglio on

Hi, i'm new to Drupal, and i want to know if it's possible to create a site where in the main page i put boxes that lists the lastest 5 entries of a section (lets say sports) like most newspaper sites have, aside from the main content that the main page has. And if there is available a module that can list the most read articles and the most commented.
I would be happy if someone can at least outline what i will need to learn in order to make it.

Thanks in advance!
Sorry for my english

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silverwing’s picture

silverwing commented

http://drupal.org/project/views is a must - you can make as many lists as you can think of and assign them as blocks in regions.

Turn on stats (in modules I think) to get basic statistics/most read functions.

~silverwing

WebNewCastle’s picture

WebNewCastle commented

With Views, there will be some option to sort by node statistics in the Sort options - you can use this to help with the display of the most read articles. And when you set this up, be sure to visit the Log Settings page (under Admin -> Reports) and click "Enabled" under "Count Content Views". I made an error not too long ago where I didn't have this checked, and discovered this only after having to troubleshoot why sorting by most popular content was working.

cargiglio’s picture

cargiglio commented

Many thanks for the answers!. I'm gonna try that solutions

lordrahvin’s picture

lordrahvin commented

I'm kinda new... but wasn't there something like E-publish or some similar module that was made to give Drupal more of a newspaper layout? I recall something like that while browsing through the modules. Maybe it might help.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

There's an install profile named openpublish-- maybe that's what you're thinking of?