raskl

Please don't shoot me if this has been asked before. I did search, but couldn't find anything.

I'm building a Mambo site for a client, and am setting it up so he doesn't need to go into admin, just add content from the front end as a publisher.

I understand there is a checkbox that causes content to be published on the front page. However, I'd like to make it idiot-proof and have all articles from a certain category appear on the front page automatically. So that, ultimately, the front page acts as a blog for a specific category.

Thanks for any help, and also for all the help I've already received from this site without having to ask any questions!

xjumper84

to get you thinking on this (i'm not awake yet), you're basically looking to set the "frontpage" checkbox to a "1" instead of a zero.. so that that its checked.

this actually makes me want to edit some uploader settings i have.

when i find it i'll let you know, unless someone answers it first.

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raskl

Thanks for the quick response!

Wouldn't that cause content from all categories to be published to the front page? I only want one category published there, blog style.

I've also wondered about making a duplicate of com_content, creating a category for it, then running it as a special module only on the front page. This is where my brain starts to hurt, and I'm not sure if it's even possible. I've made duplicates of latest_news before, to give different looks (see onlycollegefootball.com - a work in progress), but that's a module. I haven't messed around with components much yet.

raskl

Well, I've just figgered it out. The answer was to to create a link in the main menu to the blog category, and move it to the top of the list, so that category shows up on the home page by default. Now I feel stupid. Why must I always try to climb the mountain instead of just going through the tunnel? Thanks for the help anyway!

xjumper84

hey, its alright. its all a giant mountain and we're all on different sides of it figuring out how to get to the top, while the developers are either making the mountain taller or making for easier ways to climb it..

ok wow.. way to philisophical for me.. i'll be going now...

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