How editor can choose what news are showed in front page?

[urheat]

Is it possible to show just selected news? I need a front page that shows 1-4 selected news sorted by the date. Those selected ones are not necessary the newest ones, but news that are selected by the editor. I think this can be somehow achieved with a custom field and with template customazation. Or is this already in the core of the news module? Thanks in advance

[spcherub]

Unless things have changed in the most recent version of the News module, there is no other way to select a group of items within News except by creating a custom field and assigning a recognizable value to it which you then use in the templates (or UDT) to display the desired content.

You can also create a specific Category for this and assign selected News items to this Category. When you call the module you can restrict display to this special category - this may work for you as well and does not require you to create a new field. This method can be extended by creating different categories for different grouping so it is scalable.

Hope that helps.

S

[urheat]

I managed do this with categories. Thanks for simple tip