Is there a way to get a news block to show the whole story instead of just preview text? What I want to do is set it so that the first story has its whole content shown but others would still be able to have set preview text. I tried changing out the $news.sample value for the $story.text one but that just didn’t show anything at all. Also I can up the amount of preview text but then it displays without any formatting and it would show that amount for all my stories. What would also work is maybe making a custom block that would just show one whole news story, but I’m not sure how to go about that.

You may benefit from the *Blockies* module available here.