On 2/11/06, David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 3. By using templates, we could allow community input to the front
> > page without unlocking the design of the front page. ie, the front
> > page has some templates inserted that are editable, even though the
> > front page remains locked to stop casual vandals.
> That would be an idea... Is there a way to make it an auto-feed from another
> page? There is much later and possibly more interesting and relevant news on
> the news page, but the front page has 2 links to much older news.
A template is just another page, in a special namespace, that allows
it to be easily included in another page. Eg a page called
Template:PageName can be inserted on another page with {{PageName}}.
You can also dynamically insert the contents of any other page with
{{:OtherPageName}}. (as an aside you can permanently copy another page
with {{subs:OtherPageName}})
So the news could be on a page called "News_frontpage" and then
inserted on the front page with {{:News_frontpage}}.
Although the idea of RSS is attractive, I will start a new thread about that.
Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin
