News Items

[John A. Newitt]

At 1:27 PM -0700 on 6/16/03, you wrote:

>I have a weblog hosted by weblogger.com where I currently don't use 
>News Items. I would like to start using News Items so I can use the 
>commentlink feature.
>
>What's the best way to make the transition to News Items? I don't 
>want to jump in without some advice because last time I tried 
>turning this on, all of my posts disappeared off the home page. (and 
>they come back when I turn News items off) I'm sure this is intended 
>behaviour but knowing that doesn't help me very much. (i.e. how do I 
>start using News items without losing all my existing posts?)
>
>Nobody knows my weblog exists so I don't really need the comments 
>feature right now but I'll eventually tell some folks about the site 
>so it will be nice to have it before I let people know.

James:

You don't _have_ to keep the news items on your homepage. You can 
create a new story page (that you keep a link to in your navigator 
bar, e.g. "News") and use the viewNewsItems macro
<http://macros.userland.com/basic/viewNewsItems>

Since you are using weblogger, you can also use the Newslink plugin
<http://macros.weblogger.com/newsLink>
to make it easy to access News Items features from the "Editors Only" 
menu when your homepage is not a News Items style page.

Let me know if you need additional help.

- John

P.S. All of your old posts are still there, you just need to know how 
to find them (or link to them). To see all, try 
<http://your.site.name.here/discuss> or 
<http://your.site.name.here/stories>.