By robthedog on

I got a lot of modules working on my Drupal-site. The site is slowly starting to take form, yeehaa!

I have a page: http://byviken.com/dev/?q=sv/aktuellt which is ment to be a kind of "news-page". The idea is that a web-admin would post anything thats happening (semi-weekly) under this page. 5 newest posts show --> archive of old items...

Now, I never actually got which is the best way to do this. Do I use some module or blog-thingie or what?
Regards, Rob.

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syawillim commented

If you are wanting to have a list of the 5 most recent items of a particular type or from a particular category you might find a 'snippet' in the handooks that meets your needs - http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/php-snippets.

Or you could use the views module to create a custom view or page that does what you want.

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robthedog commented

Thanks syawillim.
I played around with the views module a bit, but didnt get the job done. I guess there´s just too many options, and I just don´t get them. The most importaint thing is that the news-page has to be super-easy to update for the webadmin.
I wonder, isnt there any really common way of doing this in Drupal (there has to be)? I´m sure many of you have done something like this. It would be nice to hear how.

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robthedog commented

Just to specify, the blog-module (played around 5 mins with it) functionality is pretty much what I´m looking for (as far as posting goes anyway). But the blog-module seems to be user-specific, I need something everyone can see under the site main navigation menu (see my first post)...

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syawillim commented

Views will do just what you want.

Create a new view, give it a name, enable page view, set the permissions etc.
View Type, select full node or teaster list. If you select list or table you will also need to select the fields to display.
Down the page in the filter section add filter by node type, select blog entry and save the view.

This should give a you a page that displays all blog posts. Probably not exactly what you want but it gives you a starting point to refine things.

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