Is there a way to make all the posts promoted to font page to be included in RSS?
I believe you need to make use of the Promote to Front Page / Sticky options under the Publishing options on the node.
In the edit form for each content type defined in Drupal (in example, the one at http://example.com/admin/content/node-type/page), it is possible to promote to front page all the nodes of that content type.
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I inherited a implementation of Gallery2 embedded in a Drupal site. I need to change the url of the page this is on from /gallery to /somethingelse.
Drupal is not something I am very familiar with, but I've done some stuff here and there with it years ago.
The /gallery page is not listed anywhere in the admin interface and the content is living in page-gallery.tpl.php.
A 301 redirect is going to be necessary (which I do know how to do), but that isn't the solution I'm looking for obviously (just to avoid getting that answer). Is there any simple way to change this url?
First you will have to understand how drupal handle URLs & generate a page based on it. There are several way to have a URL in drupal, where you can navigate from somewhere.
Usually we make page(add content) of some content type, which you create before with all the required fields. Drupal give serial node number to all newly created page, so to have your own custom URL, you will need to use PATHAUTO module, which will create URL based on title of the page, though you can modify at time of creating page.
We create listings of some things e.g. images for gallery by help of VIEWS & we can create page for the listing. We get to give URL for the page, which you can edit any time.
We declare URLs in our custom module under hook_menu(). Other contributed module also do the same & that's why you get some pages when you enable the module.
Apart from page content, drupal have block system. A block can contains content, image, links etc & display of it can be set to all pages as well as any specific page. So there is no limitation for you to make your page with the URL which you want if you are using PATHAUTO module. If you have listing from views or code which is generating page, then you can always go there & change.
So, I'm relatively new to Drupal, and I'd like to make a Drupal site with a front page with a grid of links to other commonly used pages on the site. This site is intended as a sort of community page for a small town, so it would be links like Government, News, Business Directory, History, Forum, etc.
Some of these pages are basic pages on my Drupal site, some are external links, and some are links to views or modules, like the aggregator module. I'd like all of the links to be sortable and generally have the same markup. I'd also like these links to be gathered automatically, i.e. via the 'Promote to Front Page' option or something like that. I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want to hardcode this to a basic page.
So far my solution has been to create a view with a list of title fields from pages promoted to the front page, and a special content type I named 'Link' which are actually just redirects to external urls. The problem now is that I don't know how to include special pages, like aggregator or view.
Any ideas? Is there a better way to do this? Have I missed something?
The easiest way to do this is as follows.
Create a content type called link with a link field on it.
Create a page view that displays all content of type link and displays the field link
This is a very basic way of doing it, if you wanted more than one list on the page then that would depend on the theme you are using and the links would need to be categorized in someway using taxonomy.
You may also want to look at the flag module.
I'm developing a theme for wordpress and would like to know the best way to show highlights on the home page.
Examples:
I thought two ways:
Custom post types -a custom post "highlight" with metabox for image, text and link.
Theme Options - a page with options for each box.
What is the right way?
Neither. What you want can be achieved using either Wordpress' core functions and/or Custom Fields. Consider using Custom Meta Boxes if you have a client that requires a more intuitive setup, or installing something like the Types Plugin to do it for you.
This will allow you to attach your own variables to given Posts/Pages.
To gain access to a post's Custom Fields, click the Screen Options button at the top of the Post Editor to enable Custom Fields.
Personally, I would Enable Support for Thumbnails for your Highlights image, use The Excerpt for your Highlight copy, and use either The Title or a Custom Field for the heading.
This way, you can keep all your eggs in one basket rather than overcomplicating things with Custom Post Types or Theme Options Pages.
Look at the Plugin "Ether Content Builder"
You could use either of the methods you've suggested. In my opinion getting involved with lots of meta boxes on one specific page template for this is a total waste of time - there is only an image, a header and an excerpt linking to a post/page. Three posts (whether custom or not) will handle that with featured image, excerpt and the page/post title.
I also think doing a Custom Post type is too much just for three posts on the homepage. If you go the posts route just create a new post category called Home Highlights and put your three posts in there, pull them in via a custom loop built on WP_Query.
Yes you can go the Theme Options route too. If it's the client updating the site then it can look quite professional this way, I've started using a plugin called Options Tree after it came integrated with Super Skeleton, it makes it very easy to build your custom theme options which work just as well too.
A matter of opinion really, rather than a hard and fast 'this one is definitely better'!
I have successfully created content types for certain pages which I have in Drupal. I have also successfully created menus for those content types, so when a user is on a certain type, for instance, Blog Article, they are presented with a certain menu. The problem is when I few all the blog articles the menu is there, but when when I few the /blog page which shows all the blog entries, the content block is gone.
I've set it up so the block will only be shown with certain content types, but there doesn't seem to be a content type of blog module in general. Is there a way around this? It is the same for the forum page. It will show for forum topics, but not for the actual forum.
I hope I've made my self clear, as it is quite hard to explain.
I do not know what version of Drupal you are using but I will try to help.
As per docs on drupal.org:
Configuring a block
Go to the Blocks overview page (Administration > Site Building > Blocks) to configure the blocks on your site. This page allows you to
drag-and-drop blocks into different regions as well as reorder the
blocks within a region.
Next to each block you can click "Configure" to change the specific block settings: Block title: Allows you to override the default title
for the block User, Role, and Page specific visibility: Adjust
visibility for block based on user, role or page. Additional settings
may also be available, depending on the particular block.
Note that blocks are configured per theme. If you change the theme or
enable multiple themes, you will need to configure blocks per theme.
Yeah. I may of messed the formatting a bit but basically, in step 2, you want to configure your block visibility by page specific visibility. It looks something like below:
Basically, I think in your case you could use that to show the blocks containing your menus on specific pages and add whatever paths you want your menu to show on.
Hope that helps! Happy coding
I figured it out. Instead of trying to display a block based on the content type you have to change it so it is displayed based on the URL. The reason for this is because the blog module which comes with Drupal 7 doesn't have a content type, so when a user arrives at http://www.example.com/blog there is no content type and throws all the blocks restricted by content type out the window.
To get around it I had to install a plugin called Pathauto. This plugin allows you to specify a default URL for a content type. Be sure to install this plugin first before creating any content as any previous URLs will not work, so you will have to manually go back and change the URL alias.
Once you have installed the Pathauto plugin go and setup your paths for content types. I set it up so anything which is a derivative of the content type "Blog Entry" is given the URL /blog/post-name
Now all you have to do to set the block is go to the block and click configure. In the section Pages make sure you select "Only the listed pages". You'll have to type two lines. blog and blog/*
Now that you have set this any new content which is created as Blog Entry will fall under this URL expression and the block will be shown.
Works like a dream now. What a headache to get working.
is there any option in the drupal settings to hide the node titles ?
I usually comment the code in my theme template, but I was wondering if I can do it from drupal back-end. (For all nodes, or some content-types.. (even better)).
Thanks
Not really. Node titles are somewhat fundimental to drupal.
Removing via the theme is proably the best way to go for the front end of your site. You will need to change the default page title as well.
You can prevent people from having to enter node title with the Automatic Nodetitles module.
But there are still pages like /admin/content which will show the node title.
You can do it from backend using views and specyfing what exactly you want to show.