// Add the admin-specific parts.
if (user_access('administer nodes')) {
$output .= '<div class="admin">';
$author = form_textfield(t('Authored by'), 'name', $edit->name, 20, 60);
$author .= form_textfield(t('Authored on'), 'date', $edit->date, 20, 25, NULL, NULL, TRUE);
$output .= '<div class="authored">';
$output .= form_group(t('Authoring information'), $author);
$output .= "</div>\n";
$output .= "</div>\n";
}
$output .= '<div class="admin">';
$node_options = variable_get('node_options_'. $edit->type, array('status', 'promote'));
$options .= form_checkbox(t('Published'), 'status', 1, isset($edit->status) ? $edit->status : in_array('status', $node_options));
$options .= form_checkbox(t('In moderation queue'), 'moderate', 1, isset($edit->moderate) ? $edit->moderate : in_array('moderate', $node_options));
$options .= form_checkbox(t('Promoted to front page'), 'promote', 1, isset($edit->promote) ? $edit->promote : in_array('promote', $node_options));
$options .= form_checkbox(t('Sticky at top of lists'), 'sticky', 1, isset($edit->sticky) ? $edit->sticky : in_array('sticky', $node_options));
$options .= form_checkbox(t('Create new revision'), 'revision', 1, isset($edit->revision) ? $edit->revision : in_array('revision', $node_options));
$output .= '<div class="options">';
$output .= form_group(t('Options'), $options);
$output .= "</div>\n";
$extras .= implode('</div><div class="extra">', node_invoke_nodeapi($edit, 'form admin'));
$output .= $extras ? '<div class="extra">'. $extras .'</div></div>' : '</div>';
//}

Thanks again! Much appreciated!

- D’Arcy

The first is to create a taxonomy called “Promote to Front Page” and require it on new content with “unpublished” set as the default. Then you can change your front page in your config to a custom node.

The second requires you to edit the core node.module line #1683 in Drupal 4.7 beta 3. Just copy that line down somewhere between line #1688-1693 where the user section is defined. This does require you to maintain a fork though.

Maybe there are some other ways, but I couldn’t think of any off the top of my head.