Hi,

I am sure this is possible and would be very easy to acheive but as I have zero experience in either CSS Style Sheets or editing templates, I cannot figure this out.
I am using the news module and would like to have just the Date of Blog Entry, Title, Category, Posted by followed by the [more] link, as shown below, come up in the Sidebar.

Apr 12, 2012
News Module Installed
Category: General
Posted by: admin
[Read More]

When I currently enter something in the Summary window, it comeup up on the main comment page and some of it also comes up in the sidebar. I would rather not enter anything inthe Summary window of the news module and just enter something in the sidebar of the pages that I wish to have news come up on.
As I have explained, I am completely new to CMS Made Simple, which I think is brilliant, and a detailed response would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance,

Ashly

I'd advice to start by installing the AceEditor module (using Module Manager in the extensions menu). After that go to user preferences and select AceEditor as your syntax highlighter.

Now, go to the news module, go to the summary templates tab and open the sample template.
Look up the part of the code that displays the summary and just delete it.
it starts with this: {if $entry->summary}

You need to make a custom summary template that calls only the parts you want then in sidebar News tag call that template summarytemplate='name of template' ...

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