[support] Change home page from story to page?

[sander-martijn]

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:
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>> 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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>> sander-martijn <mailto:sander at sander-martijn.com>
>> interface developer | architect
>> sander at sander-martijn.com <mailto:sander at sander-martijn.com>
>> www.sander-martijn.com <http://www.sander-martijn.com>
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interface developer | architect
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www.sander-martijn.com <http://www.sander-martijn.com>

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