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[HM666]

Originally Posted by KGodel

I meant the bottom part, "Display Content from Sub Sections"

Right, I knew that! I must be going senile again lol. Yes you are correct you can choose which articles even show on which page that way. you can actually do that anywhere in the CMS on any page.

[KGodel]

So, all sections are subsections of Home, and if I want to show News on the Home Page, I must promote articles to the HOME section, NOT the News section, so having a news section is useless yes? After that if I want to include content from other sections as well I either have to give it a manual display number in the bottom menu or create something custom to include them on the new page. I think I have that right.

[HM666]

Originally Posted by KGodel

So, all sections are subsections of Home

Yes, correct...

Originally Posted by KGodel

and if I want to show News on the Home Page, I must promote articles to the HOME section, NOT the News section, so having a news section is useless yes?

Er no. lol You can promote the thread to an article and then select which section you want it to display in. It does not have to go on the home page if you do not want it to. When you promote an article it will open an editing page just as if you started to write the article while in the CMS by using the drop down at the top right of a page.

Originally Posted by KGodel

After that if I want to include content from other sections as well I either have to give it a manual display number in the bottom menu or create something custom to include them on the new page. I think I have that right.

Not quite sure what you mean here. If you mean including it on the home page and you do not want it to show all the article subsections on your home page, you would then have to tick the box by the article you want to display as you edit the home page and untick the ones you do not want to show there. If you want an article to display in a certain section then choose that section when you create the article and it will automatically display in that section.

[KGodel]

I meant that by default, if I want a news item to display on the home page I need to make it in the home category, or I have to tick the box to show each item individually. I'd also have to make something custom if I wanted an additional category to show on the homepage automatically since enabling sub-sections would show ALL the sub sections

[HM666]

Yeah I think so. Kinda tired right now, but that sounds about right. You could always just name your home page News instead of Front Page or Home if you will have several articles that land there as news articles and then you would not have to tick them they would automatically be ticked when you submitted them.

[KGodel]

Alrighty. I think I've got it figured out. Now, does anyone have any idea on how to create and implement a plugin or something that would allow me to pull from multiple sections on one page?

[HM666]

Originally Posted by KGodel

Alrighty. I think I've got it figured out. Now, does anyone have any idea on how to create and implement a plugin or something that would allow me to pull from multiple sections on one page?

That one is beyond my scope lol. But maybe one of the other guys will know.

[Dead Eddie]

Originally Posted by KGodel

since all sections have to be in home

Incorrect.

All nodes (sections & content) need to be in a tree rolling up to a root node. Nothing says that you need to use that root node, though.

Out of the box, the root node is the home page for the CMS. But, there's an option to set your home page within the admincp. You can set it to any node you want.

So, you can set up the CMS to have sections that don't roll up to the home page, as long as you don't set your home page to the root node.

[KGodel]

I get that, but wouldn't the root node still show on the breadcrumbs as the final thing, so even if I made the news section the homepage (which is the same script as the root node except with some section info in the url) I'm not quite sure it would fix the issue.

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Another question. Is it possible to have a section display only 1 item? So say I have a section called "About us" and a static page. I want the About Us section link to show the page as if the section was the page instead of listing a preview like it was an article. Possible?

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by KGodel

I get that, but wouldn't the root node still show on the breadcrumbs as the final thing, so even if I made the news section the homepage (which is the same script as the root node except with some section info in the url) I'm not quite sure it would fix the issue.

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Another question. Is it possible to have a section display only 1 item? So say I have a section called "About us" and a static page. I want the About Us section link to show the page as if the section was the page instead of listing a preview like it was an article. Possible?

In reply to the second question:
Yes, you can just use a widget for a static page. I have done this before on sites. You have to remove the primary content widget I believe.