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Drupal Wish #4: Clearer Terminology through Capitalization

Drupalace — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:35:12 -0700

When is a page not a page? When the page is a story, a blog entry, etc.

When is a story not a story? When the story is a page, a forum topic, etc.

And so on. Did that make sense to you? If so, you've made the effort to absorb Drupal's self-referential terminology, and can quickly parse a word like "page" to mean a generic web page or a specific type of Drupal node, as context dictates.

Drupal Wish #3: Easier Menu Item Weights

Drupalace — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:09:25 -0700

Aargh, am I missing something entirely?

When I create a new menu item, I typically know where I want it to nestle among the existing items. Such as before "links" but after "about us", etc.

But naturally, I don't remember what weights I gave those menu items earlier. So how do I know what weight to give the new menu item? I don't! It's "guess and see what happens". Or, the usual process, "edit" the bracketing menu items, note their weights, and set my new item's weight in the middle.

Drupal Wish #2: Easier Teasers

Drupalace — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:52:41 -0700

Sorry, no new text here, just a pointer to Drupal Mystery #1: Teasers. From my comment on that page, I'd like to see teasers set up with three radio button choices that the user must select from, per below. (And all build into core, of course.)

( ) Set teaser to <input some number> characters. (If left blank, Drupal will use the "Length of trimmed posts:" setting, under Post settings.)

Drupal Wish #1: Easier Linking to Terms

Drupalace — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:01:50 -0700

A common newbie question: How do I create a page which, for example, lists all news stories and not other posts?

The proper Drupal response, I believe, requires a small change in mindset. A page that lists nodes (as opposed to a page that simply presents one node) doesn't exist until created on the fly. The proper Drupal question is: How do create a link that returns all news stories?

For anyone not already more well-versed in solutions than I am, here are two ways to do it: