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On my home page I want to have a series of 'blocks'. Here is a graphic illustrating what I would like to achieve

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The first two would be updated with the latest two blog post, the third would be the Facebook feed iframe, then the last three would be images promoting a different page on the site via a link.

I currently have each of these blocks prepared as separate views. Each of these are hard-coded into page.tpl with views_embed_view(). This isn't ideal as I want to be able to easily add and remove these boxes from within the Drupal admin.

How do I create a 'master view' to display on the front page that will hold these separate views?

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  • are you using Context module?
    – Aboodred1
    Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 14:37
  • No, I'm quite new to Drupal, I'll check it out
    – tommyf
    Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 14:39
  • are you using custom theme or contributed one?
    – Aboodred1
    Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 14:44
  • I think the best would be a using context module or Page manager provided in the ctools package.
    – Jayaram
    Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 15:06
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    This sounds like a job for Panels.
    – Triskelion
    Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 15:07

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It seems there are many ways to achieve the same result in Drupal. In the end I went for 'Context'. By using 'Panels', it does not appear to be flexible enough to easily add extra blocks when needed.

  • Set the condition to <front>
  • In reaction add blocks
  • Then drop in all the required views into content
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