[support] Change home page from story to page?

[Sarah Adams]

Do you have $tabs included in the home page template?


sander-martijn wrote:
> Well not every home page on the internet is a teaser list.  This 
> particualar one has a random image (thanks for your help on that btw I 
> got it working), two paragraphs of text that are only on that page, a 
> specialized search (custom module) and 3 news items.  The news items 
> will just be headers that link.  However the two paragraphs don't link 
> off anywhere, so you can't see them anywhere except the homepage.  
> Therefore to edit them you need to go to the content management part 
> of the admin and find the story and edit it.  I was just wondering if 
> there was an easier way to have the editors manage the home page content.
>
> Metzler, David wrote:
>> Doen't quite make sense.  The home page is normally a "teaser list" of
>> nodes.  If you click on the node that you want to edit, whether it's the
>> top sticky one or another, you should be able to edit that node,
>> (provided you have permissions of course). 
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by "go looking for it", so am a little confused
>> as to whether I'm answering your question. 
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>> Behalf Of sander-martijn
>> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 1:32 PM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: [support] Change home page from story to page?
>>
>> When I first set up my site, I added a story to the home page which now
>> appears there but isn't editable from the home page.  Can this be
>> changed?  I do want the home page to have other elements such as news
>> stories that have been promoted to the home page, so maybe this is the
>> only or best way to do it.  but i think the best case would be for an
>> editor to be able to edit the main home page content from there rather
>> than to have to go looking for it. 
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