Personally, one of the most common things that clients have asked me to do for their website is to make a simple news page. Here’s a simple tutorial how to make that in Drupal.
Before we begin, you will need to have Drupal 6.x installed and configured. Also, you will need the following modules: CCK, Views.
1. Login as administrator.
2. Go to admin/content/types and click on “Add content type“.
3. Type this in the fields:
Name: "News" Type: "news" Description: "News items"
4. Click “Save content type”
5. Go to admin/build/views and click “Add”.
6. Type this in the fields:
View name: "news" View Description: "News View" View type: Node
7. Click “Next”
8. In the Filters-section, click on the plus-sign
9. Check “Node: Type” and click “Add”
10. Choose “Is one of” and “News”. Click “Update”
11. In the Sort Criteria-section, click on the plus-sign
12. Check “Node: Post Date” and “Descending” and click “Add”
13. Check that Sort order is on “Ascending” and Granularity “Second”, then click “Update”
14. In the Fields-section, click on the plus-sign
15. Check “Node: Title” and “Node: Post Date” and click “Add”
16. Leave “Node: Post Date” as it is and click “Update”
17. For “Node: Title”, clear the Label-field and check “Link this field to its node”, then click “Update”
18. In “Basic Settings”-section, click on “None” after “Title:”
19. Type in “Latest news” and press “Update”
20. Next, we are going to make a page for the news. Above “Add Display“, choose “Page” and click “Add Display”
21. In “Basic Settings”-section, click on “No” after “Display pager:”
22. Choose “Mini pager”, click “Override” and then “Update”
23. In “Page Settings“-section, click on “None” after “Path”
24. Type in “news” and click “Update”
25. In “Page Settings“-section, click on “No menu” after “Menu:”
26. Choose “Normal menu entry” and type in this:
Title: "News" Menu: "Primary Links"
27. Click “Update”
28. Click “Save”
29. The system is ready. Now we just need to make a test news item. Go to node/add and click “News”
30. Type in the Title and Body for your news item
And you are done! The News-page should be in your main menu and also can be found at www.yoursite.com/news.
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Written by Kristian
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Thanks for this guide.
It works OK except for also stripping all non text out of the body such as images etc. We need all body content to appear but I can’t see where to change this. Any ideas?
John