Hello everyone...thanks for the help and responses!

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By default, you can add blocks to the news module's top page (including some sort of "Recent News" summary block that's more like what I'm wanting)...but after that, the previous five (or more) stories are always presented as FULL ARTICLES...there is no way given to prevent this in the options.

What I'd like to do is create a news module top page that has two custom blocks that I can make with stories I wish to highlight, followed by that "Recent News" block (which DOES give you the option to present articles as title-only, or with a brief abstract).

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I've been looking for a so-called "blank" module that can be replicated/cloned, and I think that I may have found one called "ghost". What I'd REALLY like is a blank module that allows you to rename its clones to something more meaningful to the site (modules/site_section_1, modules/site_section_2, etc) since I'm not able to perform mod_rewrites or similar tactics to make the links appear more sensible.

Hello everyone!

I've been struggling with the NEWS module (I think it's 1.65) for a little while now. I don't like how it presents the most recent stories in full, unabridged format, so I want to specify that the top NEWS page displays zero stories...but unfortunately, the settings drop-down box for that option doesn't have that option (it starts at five). I'm thinking there has to be someway of overriding this...has anyone else solved this problem?

Thanks!