[CMS] Creating a simple news page

[SSSlippy]

I have now spent an hour trying to create a simple news page. Also I want is in the left column a feed from my forums showing all the threads from one forum. Then right side forum posts and recent blog posts.

I can not for the life of me get my threads from my forums to show in the primary content area. I do not want to manually enter anything in there.

[Lynne]

The primary content area of the layout grabs the content from your CMS - your articles. It doesn't grab any threads from your site unless you create a widget to do so and put it in that area. But, you cannot get rid of the pirmary content block in a layout.

[indie]

But, you cannot get rid of the pirmary content block in a layout.

I suggest that we can, so we can use widget only pages. I have one page that has a 100% widget with content inside, and I'd like to disable the content block because it just says there is no content on the page now, when there is.

Thanks

[Edwin Brown]

If you really want to do this you should be able to by editing either vbcms_content_section_page or vbcms_content_article_page. Depending on whether you want this on an article or a page. Create a new style, in that style replace the content of the template with something like

{vb:raw css}

and use that style for the section. You should have just the widget. Please do it with a new "test" style, because I haven't played around with this. I've never had a reason to.

[indie]

I'd rather have it as an option. Seems like the best way would be in Layout Manager where you can add and remove widgets and move Primary Content around with the widgets to just add a delete option (X) to the Primary Content box, like the widgets have. Primary Content is there but with no (X). I would really like to see this added.