I'm using node.tpl.php to rewrite the content like this:
<div>
    <h2><?php print $title ?></h2>
    <div class="content"><?php print $content ?></div>
</div>

So that I don't have the header link bc i don't want the content to show anywhere other than the home page.  Thanks everyone for giving me several different options to try.  At the moment, for my needs it seems like the best option to get what i need would be to change node.tpl.php so that it links the title like normal if you're an admin.  Furthermore I should probably only retheme stories until i get a better handle on the different options.


Metzler, David wrote:
Last I checked, node Title was a required field, and by default, the node title on a home page displays with a link to that piece of content. So how are you suppressing them for the two paragraphs.  Are you using panels?  Are you supressing the the titles via custom tpl's for specific node types (e.g. story.tpl)? Are these blocks with custom text?  Have you customized node.tpl, story.tpl or another .tpl file to remove titles?
 
As one person has suggested, adding the edit link at the theming layer with tests on which "role" a user is in, is one way to add specific links to editing a node on the page. Could you include more info about how your paragraphs are constructed?

Dave
 
 

From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of sander-martijn
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 4:07 PM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Change home page from story to page?

Yes I do.  And the edit/revisions tabs appear on the other pages. (that was a good question though - my first try at a template didn't include tabs and i was missing all kinds of things)

Sarah Adams wrote: 
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

 

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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On
Behalf Of sander-martijn
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 1:32 PM
To: support@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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