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Hi there,
I have latest openscholar + drupal 7.31 installation. I have the main site and 5 department sites and many more personal sites. I need to display a view generated block on the main site and not on the rest of the vsites. Currently view created block is appearing on the front page of the main site + front page of all the department and personal vsites. Can anyone provide some help on "How to display blocks on a specific vsite's front page but not on others" .

I have been stuck with this issue for a long time. Any help much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

I am hoping someone will be able to help me create a GMap block using Views.

Essentially what I want to be able to do is to take the Google Map that is shown when you click on the "User Locations" link and put it in a Block that can be added to any page (specifically in my case to the Home Page).

I have tried to use Views to do this but I cannot get the Content : Location option to appear in the Views list of Relationships. I expect there are other gaps in my knowledge but so far this is as far as I can get.

There are lots of ways to create a nice homepage using your theme (page-front.tpl.php) or using modules like views, panels or front page (http://drupal.org/project/front).

My question is what kind of techniques do you tend to use for a rich homepage on a larger site? Is it all custom php in the theme or a combination of modules & custom php? Blogs and portfolio sites don't require much customization for an effective homepage, but what about sites that have a richer homepage that shows off the content of the site?

Hi folks --

I'm building a site where I want anonymous users to access none of the site's real content until they log in.

However, when a user first comes to the site prior to login, I'd like them to have a decent page telling them to log in, and where they can see the login block.

My current method includes:

-- the Taxonomy Access module (so that I can use a category tag to specify that one of the pages will in fact be viewable by un-authenticated people, that's the page I'll make my home page for the not-yet-logged-in people)