How 'Days To Publish' works?

[supertramp]

'Description: After this many days posts will not be eligible to move from upcoming to published pages'

I set my value at 2. So after 2 days the stories will not be eligible in Upcoming Section' . My question here is -Where will the stories go then? Will it be discarded automatically? Or will it be published in that particular category without showing up in front page? Thanks.

[sukrut51]

'Description: After this many days posts will not be eligible to move from upcoming to published pages'

I set my value at 2. So after 2 days the stories will not be eligible in Upcoming Section' . My question here is -Where will the stories go then? Will it be discarded automatically? Or will it be published in that particular category without showing up in front page? Thanks.

it means that after 2 days (as you've set the value to 2 days) if the story gets enough votes to get published on homepage,,then also it will not be published and will remain on upcoming forever....

so it doesn't mean that stories will be discareded

[supertramp]

Thanks Sukrut51. I like to know one more thing. How do I publish an upcoming story without showing it in the front page? If a story isn't publish (i,e if a story is in upcoming section) it doesn't show in the category list, until an unless you publish it. Please help me out. Thanks.

[supertramp]

Hi Pliggers, I am sorry to start this again. But, I badly need this. I want to include a category for writers. I like to have original stories/articles in my site. Not just link and synopsis. If I publish these writers' full stories in front page, it will cover up half the entire front page which I don't want. So I like to put all these long original stories in separate category without showing them up in front page.

The answer of the following question will help me.

Question: "How do I publish an upcoming story without showing it in the front page? If a story isn't publish (i,e if a story is in upcoming section) it doesn't show in the category list, until an unless you publish it.

Thanks in advance.

[Yankidank]

I'm not sure if we still have this, but there used to be a short text version for stories. It would let you create a custom summary version of an article, followed by a full text version. I don't feel like digging through settings right now so here is my other solution that may work well for you...

Open: link_summary.tpl

Find:

{$story_content}

Replace with:

{if $pagename neq "story"}{$story_content|truncate:300:"...":false}{else}{$story_content}{/if}

What this will do is truncate (shorten/cut off) content that exceeds 300 characters on the non-story pages (upcoming,published, etc.). On the story page you get the full text for those long articles. You can adjust how many characters should be shown on the truncated versions by editing the number in the replace code from 300 to whatever you want.

[supertramp]

Hi Yankidank, thanks for your reply. Now it's working fine. I really appreciate your help. I will be really happy if you could also please tell me how to publish upcoming stories without showing them on the front page. Thanks a lot.