Posted by blavish on November 3, 2009 at 10:38am
I would love to know how to do http://www.huffingtonpost.com/big-news/#homepage
Where there are pages under their categories and selected tags, but using panels to do this is very time consuming. How else does one create "big news" pages with drupal without taking hours to set up a page?
Any advice would be great!
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Which element?
Which element are you trying to replicate? Are the pictures like static categories, where it's just the link that changes?
Because then I think you might be able to jigger it around using PHP calls to change the link and flyover text. I did something briefly with just one image using that method.
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I have
I have a bunch of tags, so when I see something i'd like a entire page of i usually take that tag and create a "page" with panels, then i create all the views like "popular", "most emailed", most commented etc for that tag. This usually is such a mission.
I wonder if there is a faster way where you already have the panel layout but can just change the tag and the entire page will be the same as the other one but with different tag.
a bit confusing i guess
Arguments...
I'm not 100% sure I completely understand the problem, but it sounds like arguments would help you out here. I know Panels takes arguments but I've never used them. I've used Views arguments, and that lets you create one view for any tag and supply that tag as the argument.
HTH [ed - am I the only one whose markup gets butchered?]
You can do something similiar
You can do something similiar very easily with topic hubs. http://drupal.org/project/topichubs . You might want to install openpublish to see what else the system can do.
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