What is the purpose of Front Node, and what does it add to the existing settings?

I was about to ask precisely that question :)

Or if you wanted to be able to set a front page "flag" on the edit page (instead of going to admin/settings/site-information) you could simply have a view for the front page and use the flag module...

+ 1 for this being an unneeded module.

+ 2 for this being an unneeded module.

I think this module will confuse people with Drupal's current "promote to front page" terminology, and could be much better implemented in a different way other than this. :/

I agree.

I am changing the title.

The module was designed to use on pages, where someone moderating the page isn't actually the administrator. The only goal was to make possible easy setting the node as front page.

We realize, that there could be only a few addressees of this module.

- 1 for this being an unneeded module.

I like this module as it allows you to set a single node as the front page AT THE NODE Level.

Considering I rarely hand out the 'administer site configuration' permission, this module provides it's own permission for this specific purpose and it works well for the systems I build with Drupal.

If Drupal's core provided better access options to the Site information admin page (admin/settings/site-information) without having to assign the (too powerful) 'administer site configuration' permission, then this module would be less necessary for me.

Or if you wanted to be able to set a front page "flag" on the edit page (instead of going to admin/settings/site-information) you could simply have a view for the front page and use the flag module...

Why install the flag module when I can just install this module, and I gain my desired functionality in one less step.. I don't have to create a view.

This module is the lite weight solution to provide this functionality.

Thanks

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