Sure, you can populate the page with whatever you want.
I would check out the PageModel and SiteModel classes and look at the
methods those provide. Those both provide a handful of ways to get
collections of entries that you could use to display on your frontpage.
Alternatively, the rendering process is very pluggable, so you can
create your own model classes if you want and those classes can contain
access to anything at all. You could use them to pull data from Roller
that isn't usually exposed, you could pull data from custom tables in
your database if you need to, or you could pull data from web services
or anywhere else you want.
-- Allen
Matthew P. Schmidt wrote:
Hi guys. At JRoller we had a custom frontpage data model that fetched
only the entries in a certain set of categories. This was a hack and
required us to override too much code. Is there a cleaner way for us to
replace the entry list coming to the frontpage theme (we're building a
new one anyway)?
Thanks,
Matt
