Posted by robives on January 18, 2010 at 8:34am
I want to show a summary of latest blog posts on the front page of my site at www.robives.com
I have set up a View to show the latest three entries which you can see on the lower part of the home page but I'd prefer to have an extract of the text rather than the full text and I'd like to show a comments link. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
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set up a node view using the teaser style. You can also enable the front page view already included (but disabled by default) in views, clone it, and adjust the filters as you see fit. This will give you the same effect drupal has out of the box. ex: teasers on the front page.
Noob
Thansk for your help. Where do I find the teaser style?
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in views, under basic settings, under styles
use the default view previously mentioned to help unnoob yourself while doing a comparison if it's settings versus what you have now.
hmmm
I'm obviously missing something here. I don't have teaser listed under styles.
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then you will have to explain in detail exactly how you've built your view from the very first option.
have you looked at the default (disabled) front page view provided by views?
I'm note sure about the exact
I'm note sure about the exact effect you are looking for, but if you want to have something like on my page www.lockonhr.com (blog extracts/teasers in the center section), then you have to do following:
When you create or edit blog entry, right under the section that you want to you as intro, you have to insert following code (in plain text/html editor, it is not working in FCKeditor):
<!--break-->For "Read More" link I used Read More Link module.
After installing, it will be available in section Administer > Site configuration > Read More link
Hope this helps :)
Renato
Thanks!
Perfect - thanks!
Glad to return to the
Glad to return to the community what I have learned here :)
Renato