Where is "default content feed" when not at Front Page?

By rphair on 27 May 2015 at 09:12 UTC

When you assign a URL in Administration > Configuration > System > Site Information > Front Page > Default front page ... it says "Leave blank to display the default content feed."

Usually I do this to make the Front Page a static page, and then use the default "Front page" View to make virtually the same content appear at a different path (e.g. example.com/blog).

This works fine but I have always wondered how the "default content feed" might still be used, not to mention why the Views module seems necessary to effectively move it elsewhere. My question: is there a canonical way to make that same "default content feed" — the exact default Front Page — appear at a different URL?

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WorldFallz commented 27 May 2015 at 19:47

My question: is there a canonical way to make that same "default content feed" — the exact default Front Page — appear at a different URL?

Not without custom code (hook_menu_alter) that I know of. It's hard coded as a very basic default-- views is the way to do listings (it has been added to core as of d8).

Solved in Drupal 8

rphair commented 28 November 2015 at 15:23

Really happy to confirm this can now be trivially fixed in D8 Views UI (Administration > Structure > Views > Frontpage > Edit Page view > click /node & change to whatever you want, e.g., /blog).

Still curious why trying to change the default Frontpage RSS feed /rss.xml - by clicking on the default URL in the same way - just does a little bit of Ajax & then fails (as of core 8.0.0), but that's probably a separate issue.