Recipe 12: The frontpage View

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Ingredients

Views RSS module

The frontpage view serves two basic functions. It presents key content on the site's home page, and also enables the home page content to be syndicated with a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed.

The default frontpage view includes content marked for the front page, keeping items marked Sticky at the top. It is common to modify this default, particularly to filter for selected content types.

Give some thought to which content types you wish to include on your home page. In the MySafeWork.com screenshot, for instance, only Blog entries appear in the frontpage view, while Videos and other blocks are placed around the site's edges. Another site could set up Events and News to stream to the front page, keeping other content items, such as Forums and Slideshows, available only through the navigation menu.

The frontpage view introduces five views features. We'll highlight two (both noted with a magnifying glass) with some detail before...